Burying children makes you into a completely different person. I lost a son at 2 weeks old. I lost a son at 8 weeks old from SIDS and I had a 14-year-old son die in an auto accident. People talk about that word "closure". Closure is a word that makes everyone else feel better. But when the holidays, birthdays, and death days come around, there it is again.

If I am remembering correctly, Eric Clapton wrote this song as a dedication to his son who, died after falling out of an apartment window.

This was part of his Clapton Unplugged album. We got to see him in his Unplugged Tour, and there wasn't a dry eye in the house when he played this song. Losing a child is the worst feeling there is, parents aren't supposed to bury their children. 😢

My older brother died 14 years ago at the age of 14. My family has NEVER been the same. I can tell you from 1st hand experience: You NEVER get over it! The ONLY thing you can do is focus on the good times that you had with them. Remember that THEY would want you to keep living your own life. It's what gets you out of bed in the morning, putting 1 foot in front of the other & MOVING FORWARD.

This was a tear jerker when it came out because we new the story behind the song just a beautiful song

I lost my son to brain cancer 10 years ago. This song is very cathartic. A father's grief from one Eric to another.

Never apologize for your tears. They're only natural.

I'm sorry for your families losses, please don't apologize for your sincere feelings. You are a sweet gentle soul, and a beautiful lady, I love all of your comments here.

I'm italian and I know well this tragedy, because Connor's mother is a famous Italian subrette and 2 years ago she has lost another son at age of 19 ( suicide) and she also has lost a child who was only 6 months old.

I have been told by a relative who lost his 6 month old daughter that you never forget or move on from such loss. All you can do is learn to live with the pain!

This song ALWAYS makes me cry and I’m a 65 year old man.

this song hits your feelings like a freight train.

This played at my best friends funeral he was 12 at the time many years ago I miss him a lot this song gets me emotional now really bad but I love it Cause it reminds me of him Eric Clapton is legend for making this song man

Thank you for reacting to this poignant and beautiful tribute to his late son, Empress JJ. He may be a strong man but you showed us tremendous strength as well to share your story of loss with this community. My sincere condolences for the loss of your cousin and grandmother. It must have been a terrible tragedy for your family. I hope you will all find peace and take solace in their memories.

This song tears me up inside💔 I love Eric So much. And Conor Rest Well baby boy🌈 you would’ve been 37 years old.

💜Thank you for sharing your story.. I am so sorry for your loss.💜

Not comparing this to the loss of a child by no means- however, I’ve seen someone grieve themselves to death- Ny dear late grandfather died many years ago on July 3rd- my dear Grandmother’s heart was so broken, she died 5 months later, on New Years Eve- We still had her Christmas gifts wrapped but she never opened them due to being hospitalized - I myself wound up in grief counseling, as they were who raised me, along with my dear late Dad- RIP ❤️🙌🏻

Empress, thank you for having the strength to share your story of your family’s tragic loss and how it devastated your family members. You, young lady are so strong too. I send my sorrow and prayers for your loss. 😞🙏

Your appreciation of the depth of the music is so appreciated by me.

After this try Eric Clapton's wonderful tonight ..Eric is a legend

It’s the line would you know my name that gets me that has to be almost impossible to bear as a parent

I don't know how anyone can listen to this song and not come to tears.

My brother and niece, who are very good musicians, sang this at my great grandmother's funeral. I cried then and I still do when I hear it.

I'm sorry for your losses, you have my condolences.

You give your life and love to someone and they are cutteth down like the grass

Girl its 2021 & I still cant understand how did this man do it? I still feel that death.You should see his son had an Angel face.Oh girl youll cry more.

Perfectly Beutiful Song.

Eric Clapton overcame a drug addiction. I don’t know how he endured this without starting to take drugs again.

Whenever I hear this song it brings tears to my eyes. I remember that day really really sad.

The worst possible thing in life is to outlive your child. My heart goes out to all who had to endure that fate.

You never get over loosing a loved one. We just learn to live with the pain as best as we can.

My friend sees people who have passed over. They speak of love, great love. Eric will be there with his son. We don't think we belong there, but Love receives us in perfect joy.

He captured what perhaps all of us feel when we lose someone. Will we ever see them again and, if so, what will it be like?

It's the 1st anniversary of my 28 year old son's death in 6 days. I am really struggling. This song means so much to me because I also lost my 1 day old baby son the same year he wrote this. 1 child is unbearable. 2 children breaks you and makes you think that, if there is a god, he has no empathy. I am trying my best to get over it but it's really hard...I don't know if I can get there. I feel so much for your uncle. I hope he is ok. The love of family has got me this far so i'm sure your love helps him too. Thank you for making this video.

Sending all my love and heartfelt condolences to all of those who lost loved ones out there...just know they never left you and they are not gone...they are in the afterlife now, they have reunited with loved one Who've passed on before them and they reunite with friends who have passed and even your past pets and course their spirit guides. They still come around and send you signs ...you just have to be open minded and feel and sense them. They leave pennies, coins, they visit you in vivid dreams...that is them visiting you...those are visits from the otherside. There favorite songs will come on randomly, you will randomly hear there voices, lights flicker, you will see butterflies during unusual seasons and humming birds, you will see people who look like them so much, it's eerie, you will see there names on signs or just thinking about them, that means they are around you...that is them listening and watching you, they are still around...just not physically anymore. They see you when you are sad and crying and they hold you when you grieve and lay next to you, you just can't see them....they are all happy, at peace, full of love and tranquility. They only want there loved ones not to be sad and move on, remember them, celebate their life & memories and to live, love, laugh again...because they are all okay and happy at peace in the most beautiful place your human mind can't comprehend. Once you leave this world your Soul, energy, spirit, love, memories continue after this life...it's never the end, it's I'll see again down the road however long that is...eventually you will see them again and reunite. This life is temporary and we all connect again in the spirit world. Just know they are all with you still...hearing you and hearing your thought and they aware of everything. There is no such thing as coincidences. Sending all my love to all of you and God Bless you all ❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏

This song is a beautiful representation for all who fell tragic loss.

Lovely person.said with wisdom and compassion

well life is a dream, and so is death, in heaven awaits the ones you love the best

You have such a Beautiful Heart beautiful young lady!!! 😚💘❤💜💝

My sister lost her son at 4 months old after his second heart surgery it was the hardest thing we've ever been through even harder then losing our parents it's just so unfair he was such a beautiful baby boy now he flys with the angels and someday God willing we will join him

When my baby sister died. This song was played at the funeral. My dad told me that she lifted up her arms and opened her eyes and smiled before she took her last breath. She was so beautiful. Maybe too beautiful that god had to take her back after 10 days of missing her. I can even imagine how my dad felt inside. But this song really has the quality of healing our souls again and again.. thanks Erik for sharing the Deepest Moment of your Life 🙏🏻

i was watching Band of Brothers recently, and this made me think about the parents of the people who never come back from wars

You may not know about Eric's addictions in the past. It was incredible that this didn't put him back there. The strength, being a parent myself I don't know how I would react to this type of loss. This song is a beautiful tribute to Connor and a man who could have spiraled back into addiction. Your reaction was pretty close to mine when I first heard this and it still chokes me up today when I think of my son when I hear it.

This song makes me go a big rubbery one every damn time. Brilliant song. Brilliant artist. Heartbreaking influence behind the song.

Legitimately heart breaking. Musical y very good 👍

A great song by a master.

Beautiful reaction 🌹 I can’t imagine loosing a child 😥😥 and I never want to

Sorry about the loss of your cousin and your grandmother and the pain your uncle went through.

You are right he is strong .his nanny was with the child caring for him.and that same period Eric also lost friends in a helicopter crash that was carrying stevie Ray vogn.Eric was a heroin addict and now a born again christian and when he prays he kneels on his knees.also Robert plant of led zeppelin lost his son karac on tour in 77 and he wrote a song called all of my love in dedication to his son

Dear Empress, you wear your heart on your sleeve and it's adorable. You radiate love. I felt so much pain seeing my mother's pain at the loss of her daughter, my sister. Sort of like pain on top of pain. And in the end, life must go on.

Your reaction was as tearful as the song

Hi, his son fell out of a flat window and died. And to help him get over it he rote this song for him. I think that's a nice thing to do. For his son. Stay safe form Covid-19 to you and your loved ones.

please listen my sis and i lost our mom when iswas 13 moms last thing she told us was .If you could see what i see from this bed right now you would never cry another tear. Iam now 77 and i cry wheni hear this song .

i bet we both shed a tear...i win

Such a great reaction to the song and its meaning! You're a good person and very precious and quite beautiful inside and out!🥰

I lost my son last November and our last words to each other was I love you and see you tomorrow well tomorrow never came unless it’s in heaven my son was 28

What a beautiful reaction , Thank you. I love you.

THANK YOU for checking the background.

"The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create." Chuck Palahniuk Love everybody

This is the first time I've reacted to a video and it is because your sentiments and wishes are so real. I'm sorry for your families loss too. Thanks for the video

Thank you for your beautiful heart-revealing reaction and loving words. You are a beautiful person both inside and out.

Empress, I just lost my only brother the first of our family to leave us. It's numbing and hard to describe. May he rest in peace! realdeal

Eric Clapton was a strong and humble person from the start. In the 60's he was called God (because of his guitar playing) and he was only 19 when he was writing and performing classics. Even then he didn't buy into the adulation he received and was humble and never acted like he was anything more than a man playing his guitar.

This song stabs my heart every time.

Eric's son Conor was four years old when he fell from the window on the 53rd floor of his mother's apartment.

You are a beautiful person.

thank you. your sadness means much to me

Awesome reaction video & thank you for sharing with us.

One of the most beautiful women on Earth! Crying or smiling! Absolutely amazing !❤

Beautiful!!

Best for U.

If my memory is correct Eric didn't live with Connor and his mom but came to New York to take Connor to the Long Island Fair. They had lots of fun together and Eric was going to see him that day. The maid was cleaning the window and left the guard off. Connor fell 52 stories to his death. Because traffic was so heavy, Eric ran 14 blocks to get to Connor and his Mom. When Eric was 12 he found out his sister was really his mother.

This song was dedicated to his 4 year old son was died after falling 53 stories from a buidling high rise in 1991. Eric Clapton was so grief stricken that he pure his heart when writing this song. Conor Clapton 4 1/2 year old died Wednesday March 20th 1991, after he fell out the window of a 53rd-floor apartment, police said. Conor Clapton fell shortly after 11 a.m. and landed on the roof of a four- story building next door, according to Officer Kim Royster. The boy’s mother, Italian television star Lori Del Santo, and a housekeeper were in the apartment when he fell, Royster said. Eric Clapton was in New York when the accident occurred, but he wasn’t in the apartment, said his publicist Ronnie Lipton in Los Angeles. Clapton was examined and released from the emergency room at Lenox Hill Hospital afterward, said hospital spokeswoman Ann Warner. She said his condition didn’t require immediate medical attention but wouldn’t provide additional details. The housekeeper had just finished cleaning the window pane and had left it open to air out the room when Conor ran past him and fell out the 4-by-6 foot window, police said. Del Santo and Conor were staying in the apartment during their visit to New York from Italy, Lippin said. She didn’t know who owns the apartment in the sleek, modern Galleria Condominiums on East 57th Street. Clapton, a founding member of Cream and Derek & the Dominos, is generally considered to be one of the great rock guitar stylists. He also wrote many hit songs, including ″Layla″ and ″Let it Rain.″ Clapton won a Grammy Award that year in 1991 for best male rock vocalist for his song ″Bad Love.″ Clapton’s agent, tour manager and bodyguard were killed in a helicopter accident the year before in 1990 that also killed blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan. Clapton was divorced from Patti Boyd Harrison - the ex-wife of Clapton’s friend, former Beatle George Harrison - in 1988. Boyd was granted an uncontested divorce on the grounds of Clapton’s adultery with Del Santo. Their son was born in 1986. ″It really felt special - a feeling that won’t wear off for a long time,″ he said then. ″It’s fantastic.″ In 1989, Clapton told an interviewer that he would like more children, ″if it was part of a marriage. My son was born in a very unstable relationship. I couldn’t see repeating that.″ This tragedy almost destroyed Eric Clapton and pure his grief into his music and the song became his biggest hit ever. Eric Clapton also won album of the year a Grammy for this song.

WHO you are is value for humanity..... i think i dreamt about u as such long ago..... thank u for existing ;) ..... seriously....

You aren’t supposed to bury your kids I have been numb ever since but I still have an older son and I always let him know I love him and I have his back

Thank you for your touching conversation and being open to feel and share your heart. You must be a special, beautiful person!

Hii!!! Love your reactions!! React please to since ive been loving you to Led Zeppelin live!! Saludos to Uruguay!

What a heartfelt reaction to this amazing song. Empress, you are equally amazing. Please know that, through the 'magic power' of the internet / KZfaq, you have hundreds / thousands of people who feel connected to you, and feel like we 'know you', at least somewhat, and look forward to your reactions to bring a little light, sunshine, and sometimes tears into our lives. I have a story that I have shared with only a few people, and certainly not publicly, since the time it happened in 1978. My 10 month old son Anthony died (without going into details, I was at work when it happened, he drowned in bathtub.) I was numb, and didn't/couldn't deal with it emotionally, and it ended up being the 'last straw" that broke up our marriage. A few years later, I read in the local newspaper (yeah, that's how most things were communicated back then) about an infant (one of two twins, I believe) that had somehow fallen out of an apartment window in Chicago and died. I don't remember the details, but somehow I found out the address of the young mother. and wrote her a letter, hoping to give her a little solace and conveying my own experience. She responded back to me with a telephone call - I don't remember the exact words (was about 40 years ago), but she was appreciative that some stranger would take the time to contact her. It also helped me to start dealing with my tragedy emotionally, but as others have said, you really don't ever get over the death of a child.

I'm sure Eric Clapton's faith has helped. Being a Christian doesn't make life a bed of roses it give assurance the thorns won't last forever. Eric will hold his sons hand some day and he will hug his Daddy. Strength, Grace and Forgiveness

I am a 70 year old Dutchman That my music time made very beautiful music especially now the corona, sitting inside tide is great to see yours watch and listen to videos and see your reactions AWESOME Lots of love Wim S

Thumbs up for Ireland 👍👍👍

sending love

SUCH A SAD BUT YET BEAUTIFUL SONG ABOUT HIS SONG CONNOR..HIS SONG WAS 4 YEARS OLD WHEN BY ACCIDENT ONE OF THE MAIDS LEFT A WINDOW DOOR OPEN AND HIS SON CONNOR FELL 35 STORIES TO HIS DEATH ...ERIC GOT A CALL FROM HIS CONNOR`S MOTHER AS ERIC CLAPTON WAS ON HIS WAY OVER TO PICKUP CONNOR TO TAKE HIM TO THE CIRCUS

Makes me cry everytime.

You are a beautiful woman inside and out

your always on point, great reaction, thank you!

Very nice Empress. From the heart.

You have a truly sensitive heart. Thanks for sharing it with us. You are loved. You have my prayers, as does Eric.

EVERY one of your reaction videos CLEARLY show what a gentle caring soul you are 🤗

Such a sad song. Stay safe young lady.

I know you’ve probably been told this before. But this was a song written to his son after he died. He will see him in heaven.

Haven't even seen the reaction yet and I'm already tearing up.

Some regard cream as the peak, but as a good wine he gets better with age.

Perdona que te hable en español, pero me pareces una persona muy sensible y me encanta tu selección, me traslada a mejores momentos de mi vida 🎶💋

Can you imagine how strong a person has to be to go through this as a recovering alcoholic and drug addict and staying clean and sober through it.

We only have 100 year's to live, that's not very long. Make good decisions doing the best you can. Do we have all the answers? No we're not supposed to. If we knew we'd see our loved ones afterward no one would ever feel bad. This is a world of emotion and Lessons Learned. If there's nothing afterward we'd never know. Live safe & smart.

By me, the simple song is over-produced for mass a market. His son fell from a window in an apartment building in NYC. It says more to me about Eric Clapton than it does about any deep loss he might actually have felt. I hope I'm wrong.

This song, Let it Be by the Beatles, and Once in a While by Billy Dean get me every single time. They all remind me of my daughter that I lost to cancer when she was just 17.

I love this song, although it brings me to tears.

people should really check into some songs, some background ,not just googling. It wasn't just sad, but tragic. Eric was standing in the living room of their high rise apartment, , his son on the balcony playing with the railings, and he went through the railing. Don't know how many floors, but they were high up, and Eric saw it