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While engaged to pen a song for a film called Rush, Eric Clapton and Will Jennings, writer of “My Heart Will Go On” from Titanic, created “Tears in Heaven,” one of Clapton’s most beloved hits. The ballad was written in honor of Conor, Clapton’s son with Lory Del Santo, who fell to his death out of a 53rd story window in a New York City apartment building on March 20, 1991.

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Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE (born 30 March 1945), is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist and separately as a member of the Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time.Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” and fourth in Gibson’s “Top 50 Guitarists of All Time”.He was also named number five in Time magazine’s list of “The 10 Best Electric Guitar Players” in 2009. Wikipedia

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Many times, in songs and in day to day conversation, words are shortened in what is called ‘slang’. In this song the word because is shortened to cause. Identifying these words will help with the meaning in different cultures. The word cause is different to because and the phrase cause I know does not make literal sense; because I know is the correct phrasing. Learning slang is a context based activity; words in one context will not make sense in others. A well known saying for hello in Australia is ‘G’day’ – this is short for ‘good day’. The slang, cause, is fairly common around the world but should never be used in formal situations; it is a very casual way of speaking. Music has many slang words that are used in the cultures that influence the music. Rap music can be very difficult to understand due the high content of slang as opposed to proper English.