Eric Clapton: From Hell To Heaven ｜ Learn Real English
Learn Real English ｜ Eric Clapton: From Hell To Heaven
エリック・クラプトンの人生は、地獄と天国、闇と光が入り混じった波乱万丈の人生でした。エリックがここまで生き延びることができたのは、地獄のような辛い経験を光に昇華することができたからといってよいでしょう。
このレッスンでは、ギターの神様が地獄を天国に変えた奇跡をみていきます。エリック・クラプトン・ファン必見の動画です。
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Interview Transcript ｜ Eric Clapton: From Hell To Heaven
And I suddenly became aware of the fact that there was a way to turn this dreadful tragedy into something positive.
Every day I would say to myself, “Well, um, I’ll give up tomorrow. And… and tomorrow we’ll look at this as a serious proposition.” And of course that’s… Tomorrow never comes, as we know.
- At that moment…
Yeah.
- you don’t really have to tell us anything more.
Yeah. Yeah.
It’s an interesting phenomenon. I mean, my mail for the next year was phenomenal. I got at least 150 letters a day directly dealing with their own, um, with their own grief. And not… and not having really the tools to deal with it. And a lot of people don’t know how to deal with death. It’s not something that we’re taught in school. I was never taught in school about either relationships, parenting, or life or death.
I had no… absolutely no preparation for that in any life skill department whatsoever, which I think is a criminal thing.
Do you think some people might accuse you of… of exploiting, you know, what’s happened by… I mean, you say it’s part of the healing process, but if some people think ‘he shouldn’t…’
Well, that is… that… that is… that’s… that’s something I think about a lot, because I feel the most important thing is that I honor my son’s memory.
And in to a sense I’m willing to say, ‘sod you’ to… to everybody, you know.
That is what I’m going to do because that’s the way I feel about it, you know. I want him to be remembered and I want to remember him through good music and nice songs.
- Can you play us something that you feel is part of this healing process?
Well, um, there is a song that I’ve written for a movie that, um… but in actual fact, was really sort of a… it was in the back of my head, but it didn’t have a reason for being until I was scoring this movie. Which I did a little while ago. And then, it sort of had a reason to be.
And it a… And it is a little ambiguous cause it could be taken to be about Conor. But it also is meant to be part of the film. So…
- Well, would you?
Yeah, we could play a bit of that. It’s called ‘Tears in Heaven.’
When he was born I was drinking and he was really, um, the chief reason that I that… I went back to treatment. Because I… I really did love this boy and I thought, I can’t… I know he’s like a little baby, but he can see me and he can see what I’m doing. And I don’t want… I’m tired of this.
And I remember putting the phone down and calmly walking from my hotel to that place, as if nothing had happened. And… and I walk past the street, and this is a terrible thing of shame for me, which I’ll never ever perhaps recover from, and seeing the amb… seeing a crowd of people and… and paramedic van, and knowing that he was there and walking by.
And I’ll punish myself forever about; why didn’t I run? Why didn’t I go to see him?
And… and the truth is, I couldn’t. I was so frightened.
And I suddenly became aware of the fact that there was a way to turn this dreadful tragedy into something positive. That I would consider living my life from this point to honor the memory of my son.
- That’s lovely.
Thank you.
- That’s beautiful. That’s going to make a lot of people cry, yeah?
Well, I suppose… I don’t want to deny that. I think it would be nice if it did. But I don’t want it to be mawkish, you know.
My question was; “Will I see you again?” It was very simple.
I mean, in a sense it wasn’t even a sad song. It was a song of belief. It was song…
I mean, I think, it talks about… well, I wonder there will be no more tears in heaven. You know?
And it was, um, I think a song of optimism, really.
- Of reunion.
Of reunion.
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