PROMISES ERIC CLAPTON
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- I don't care if you never come home.
I don't mind if you just
Keep on rowin'away on a distant sea
cuz I don't love you and you don't love me.
You cause a commotion when you come to town
You give 'em a smile and they melt
Having lovers and friends is all good and fine
But I don't like yours and you don't like mine.
La la la ...
I don't care what you do at night oh
I don't care how you get your delights
We'll leave it alone
We'll just let it be
I don't love you and you don't love me.
I got a problem
Can you relate?
I got a woman
Callin' love hate.
We made a vow
we'd always be friends.
How could we know that promises end.
La la la ...
I tried to love you for years upon years
But you refuse to take me for real
It's time you saw what I want you to see
That I'd still love you if you'd just love me.
I got a problem
Can you relate?
I got a woman
Callin' love hate.
We made a vow
we'd always be friends.
How could we know that promises end.
La la la ...
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I feel every word of this song…sometimes. Anybody else?
For sure,,,
I'm amateur musician,,,giving sometimes,,, this song is on my radar for sure😊
Gig ing sometimes,,,,
Yep
Yes 😢.
My favorite Clapton song. So brutality honest, raw and self aware.
And hardly played
Me too, sad but true🎶
So true, been there before, back there again. So poignant hits me in the heart.
The female background singer really adds something to this song
Marcy Levy, Great prolific Artist/Songwriter!
@@kirkkelley3791 AKA Marcella Detroit, Shakespeare's Sister. She is wonderful
This has got to be one of his most underrated songs and one if my favorites.
Ironically a poll was taken and this song was voted the favorite Clapton song!
So TrUe
Totally agree
Underrated? It has a global/international following and is wildly popular in Europe, Philippines, and many parts of urbanized Africa.
YES AND IS BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL 😊
This is my favorite eric Clapton song. Just love the melody. I used to sing this and my husband would say "r u singing this to me"? Lmbo. " no hon, I just love the la, la. R u sure. Yes honey. We were married 38 years. Wonderful man, wonderful father. Very gifted musician.🎉😊❤
Man, those vocals give me goosebumps. EC and the female singer together is pure magic.
Marcy Levy. Check out a song called "The Core".
yes the ladies really do spice it up.
It's Marcy Levy , she cowrote some good tunes with Eric including Lay Down Sally 😎😎😎
@@craigjackson5903 And let's not forget her incredible work in Shakespears Sister under the name Marcella Detroit
@@MichealMaloney
Yes !!! In a genius move , she rebranded herself with her birth name and place of birth , and she managed to enjoy a whole new career with Shakespeare's Sister 😎😎😎😎
I love Eric Clapton & Marcy Levy together. "Lay Down Sally" is also one of my favorites.
The Core is my favorite one with Marcy.
One of my favorite Eric Clapton s songs! 🎙️🎸🍷
My absolute favorite song from Eric. Takes me back to my teenage years. Playing on the radio under the night sky.
I love to read the comments of classic music.....just to see what and how others relate to them.... Some beautiful stories.
My mom really loved Eric Clapton always makes me think of her.
This song reminds me of my early childhood. My daddy had the 8 track and we’d play this song, and he’d sing and I would just melt. I was such a daddy’s girl. RIP DADDY I MISS YOU!!♥️
Same. My dad loved this song. He passed away in 2013 at the age of 47. This song always reminds me of him.
Your statement made me teary eyed. I missed enjoying music with my dad too
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One of those songs to sit back and relax to and remember that time if you were around. Such awesome memories for me, mostly carefree.
Peaked at #9 on Jan 20, 1979.
What a gem of a song - leaves ya feelin' slightly mellow and a whole lot happier!
More like sad 😢
Yes mate
Lol got me balling over failed love.
Completely forgot about this one for nearly 20 years and just heard it at my local grocery store tonight in Clearwater, KS. Thanks Clapton...
Thank the grocery store too lol. They got great taste.
I heard this on our local radio in 1978, I loved it so much. I went and bought the album that I played so many times over and over. Promises
One of my favorite Clapton songs.
It’s one of those song where you feel a joyful sadness whenever you listen to it.
Definitely an Eric Clapton classic.
One of very very many.
Yes Eric I can relate. Thank you for expressing what I’m going through
You are so welcome
One of my favorite Clapton songs. It’s amazing how powerful it is for such an understated song
"It's time you saw what I want you to see, that I'd still love you if you'd just love me." My heart's been right fuckin' there before, man...
This song popped into my head for no reason bout 2 weeks ago. Couldn't remember the name of the song or who wrote it. Tried, in vain, to Google it. Then a week later heard it on the radio and shazamed it. Nostalgia was so thick I was back in 1979
Yeah same with me. I looked him up on UA-cam and just kept trying some of his songs till I hit paydirt. I used to hate this song because they played it so much. Then I found myself singing it when it came on the radio. Go figure?
I woke up the other day humming the rhythm. And I was like who sung that ... 48 hours latter it hit me. I even asked a bunch of my music buddies. A lost gem 🙏
My favorite song by Eric!
Great back up singing by EC!
It just glides along, unbelievable. Only Clapton could write something this understated but so subtly profound.
I love this song and have since it's release in 1978. Clapton's best in my humble opinion. #9 on the Billboard Hot 100. Eric Clapton's third, top ten hit in America.
No need to humble your opinion. As I am just a tad younger than Eric, Ive seen enough to know he's the pick of the crop, in that season. This song actually is a sad song, when you understand what it means
Country Eric is my favorite Eric. Country Dead is my favorite Dead. Country Skynyrd is my favorite Skynyrd. I just plain like the old-school country, whether by rock/pop singers, or country singers.
One of those songs you could wear around on a chilly day to help keep you warm.
The harmony gives me chills up my spine.
Finally found a song me and my ex-girlfriend can you call our "love song"
This is a better song than wonderful tonight in my opinion.
Both songs mention women so they are both love songs but I just think this songs better but I have had loads of private replies saying wrong cause them people obviously prefer wonderful tonight
Doesn't age.one of the first albums I ever bought.
Absolutely without equivocation
By far...
Wonderful Tonight is one of my least favourite of Claptons
This is one of my favorites by Eric Clapton . I was only 11 or 12 yrs old riding to school on my school van when I first heard it and fell in love with the song.
I've used this song for an ended marriage and other not so long lasting relationships. I always know right where to find it when needed. When my daughter asked why we got divorced, I played it for her, he sums it up perfectly. Thanks Eric!
My alltime favorite song. I've heard it a thousand times and love it still so much
Such a beautiful song.
Only one word to describe this song. Perfect!
This is my favorite Eric Clapton song. It shows his softer side, a surprise considering his harder rock image.
In my opinion, this is Eric at his best.
Hadn't heard this song in decades, then heard this song while driving across the beautiful countryside of Ireland solo... was in one of those "at peace" moments life can bring, song always brings me back.... great tune.
Kevin Coyne I hear ya man!....the 1970's in the u.s.a. were so great....cooking shrimp,crabs,oysters etc on the beaches of the gulf of Mexico....bass fishing,drag racing muscle cars,bar hopping....working hard and playing hard and we had THE FREEDOM to do it....it was a simpler and better time....I sure do miss it!
i reckon i'm a few years younger than you, but i fell in love with this song in the 90s, forgot about it and recently heard it again on the radio. it's brilliant
Listening to this whilst driving the Irish countryside = Heaven. Slainte
ESPECIALLY IN IRELAND!
WOW!! I WOULD LOVE TO GO TO IRELAND SOMEDAY!!!
For all of the extreme ups-and-down's of Eric's life and brilliant career (everyone knows them), he is one of the few mega-successful rockers to retain a refreshing sense of humility. And "Promises" is my all-time favorite of his solo material.
Let's hear about the ups-and-downs of your life(everybody does not know them)
This is one of the greatest songs known to mankind!... God bless Eric Clapton👊❤️
Our wedding dance was to wonderful tonight. 26 years later after the divorce papers were signed it was promises on the radio on the way home. It seemed like a lifetime in the blink of an eye:)
Reading this three years later. Beautiful, devastating story.
I just melt every time I hear this song. It’s so beautiful.
Marcie Levy backup vocals
One of his best if not THe best of all Clapton songs.
My favorite since I was kid....25 in 1975...
Beautiful as it is, I've heard it on the radio many times but never knew it was Clapton. I assumed it was Don Williams.
The guitar work convinced me it was Clapton and not Don Williams.
That's Tulsa Time that Clapton and Don shared..love Clapton but like DW version!✌💛🤘
Of course it's Eric Clapton but it very easily could have been a Don Williams song.
Beauitful painful heartbreaking fantastic song truth❤❤💯💯💥💫💥💫💥💫💥💫
One of my favorites!! This song has so much meaning
Shared the ride through the turbulent times, feel like I’m on the same road of evolution, relationship issues, beating substance abuse et all.Bless you Eric you have entertained us for decades and gotten me through in decent nick with your wonderful music.Long May you reign.
Eric Clapton was born to ooze music. He is one of the few musicians whose work you not only hear and feel, but I can actually taste his music. It has a certain flavor to it.
There are better players, better singers, better songwriters, but this man was simply born to make a difference in people's lives with his gift of musical talent. Nobody is God except God, but I think Eric has been to heaven and back.
StratFinders I will slightly argue the "better players". There are better technical players, (SRV is my all time fav), but to your point of "feeling", I totally agree. SRV is one who "felt" it. You could see it in his face. Clapton is one of the all time greats.
well said, I am old guy and love all the old rock but yu nailed it with this guy.
One of Clapton’s top 10 songs as far as I am concerned. The only thing I don’t like about it is that whenever I hear it, it gets stuck in my head for the rest of that day. Just love it though.
Saw him at the Hartford Civic Center in 85 doing security. I think I spent most of the night looking at Marcy-couldn’t take my eyes and ears off her- great voice and a total babe…
You can really here Don William's influence on Clapton in this song, same ease in his voice and low tones. He and Don had become very good friends around this time, Don had given him Tulsa Time (which Don also had a hit with) around this time as well. I can almost here Don singing this song as well, just sounds so much like one of his songs. Clapton is amazing and got all of his credit for his career....I wish the same could be said for Don. He passed away earlier this year virtually unknown. HE had so many great songs, such a great voice and a gentle soul. But even with all of that, I would be shocked if I could find 5 people that know who he was....really sad.
This song sends shivers...beautiful melody, chords, just love it.
We love you eric i love all of your music and love all of your songs your the best
this song is awesome man
This is a great song!
this song is brilliant in its simplicity. I'm 38, took some living to get to the point where i can now recognize how wonderful it is on so many levels. understated elegance with an edge, all thanks to the beauty of unadorned truth
Well said, brother. Cheers.
angelo bianchi life is simple Angelo.... PEOPLE make it hard....I know because I've done it...all the things I ran away from as a young man Ive come back to now.... CLAPTON IS WONDERFUL!
RobotWookiee Amen
Welcome to Music.
angelo bianchi well said my friend
Clapton always remained relevant through the decades
Thank you Marci Levy, co-writter another Tulsa connection!
Clapton is one of the musical geniuses of our time, love this artist :)
AMEN TO THAT! A GUITAR LEGEND!
He is the best, a musical legend for sure
Agee 100%
The best I have had the honour of hearing
Eu também gosto muito do som de E. Clepton.
One of the most underrated songs of the 70's
I forgot how great this song is... Love the lyrics.
Great song!🎸🎶
my favorite clapton song ever thank you mr clapton for keeping me singing and tapping my toes
Me too...
tapping them toes right now
Love, love, love this song! One of the best artists of our time. There are so many of his songs that are simply GREAT!!
Well done Derek !! Still loving it decades later !!
I think Wonderful Tonight is my favorite. Clapton is the best guitarist ever!
He always has the best back up singers!
Yeah,. the great Marcella Detroit
going down the road in my Plymouth gtx muscle car.....young and strong and ready for whatever came along....just living life and man I miss it!....the 1970's were badass times....🍺
Lane Garland 1969 440 six pack Roadrunner 4spd 4:30
Gears. 8 track blasting , gas
25 cents a gallon.
Did I really live in such a time?
NO FREAKIN DOUBT ABOUT IT! Denise
One of my favorites. I can’t even pick a favorite. Denise
I'm trying to figure out why I just realized what a great song this is. It was recorded decades ago and I have been a fan of Eric Clapton since the early seventies.
Yeah, this song fits like a glove. :)
Back in the days when they actually made music...not that computerized crap they throw on you today.
out of a long list of great songs, this is my favorite of his. Bittersweet.
Had this song on my Walkman (remember those ?) for many years. I love songs that display simple honest feelings, Especially when you can jog to them!
This beautiful song always puts a smile on my face and a tear in my eye. I hope you're doing ok out there, the ones I pushed away. Much love forever
Such a beautiful (if somewhat melancholy) tune.
Best Eric Clapton song ever and there are a lot of great ones.
SO SO SO MANY!!!!!
SO SO SO SO VERY MANY SOLO & WITH DIFFERENT BANDS & ARTISTS!!!
Picking one Eric Clapton song as the very best he ever did, is a hard choice, given how many GREAT songs he has done. But this is not a bad choice, at all.
Legendary Masterpiece, very beautiful piece of music
AMEN!!!!! A WHOLE LOT MY FRIEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! & HE HAS BEEN IN MANY DIFFERENT BANDS AS WELL AS A SOLO CAREER!!!!!!!!!!
It reminds me of a relationship I was in for a long while, then you both move in different directions and realize one day that you're making each other unhappy, and it's time to go your seperate ways. It's a very melancholy song from one perspective, but also liberating, moving on. one gets the impression that one loved the other than the love came back.
Al Stewart
I love Eric Clapton period I try to remember all of his work in all the splendor of great wonderful sounds to enjoy for every fan out there live for the moments in time and the future we live right this very minute so peace and much much love as well.
I only heard it the one time on XM, but I just kept rewinding and replaying.
Yes, 15$ a month may seem pricey, but everytime I tune an FM station and I have to listen to the never ending stream of ads, it's worth it. And the djs these days are just not for me anymore.
This song takes me back to a very sad time...but I still Love it!
Saw him in Denver years back, genius. One of the best songs ever.
It's such a care free song. The lyrics are too surreal.
A 'Even as friends we just need to part ways'. This hits too close to home.
Saw Eric in Dallas in the early 80's, slow hand was like rich dessert that you can never get enough of.
Tengo casi 60
Una noche de sabado en verano con 17 años salí de casa a una fiesta y alguien reprodujo esta maravillosa cancion con el volumen bien alto de un equipo musical de la época muy potente detuve mis pasos y escuche hasta que termino... cosa que no quería Jaja
Hasta el día de hoy recuerdo con nostalgia cada detalle hasta de la calidez de la noche con el perfume de la juventud ese divino tesoro
Gracias Eric por este regalo para los sentidos
This is such a beautiful song -- one of my very favorite EC tracks.
It's a victim of Clapton's own success:
From almost any other, merely-human rock-star, it'd be deemed a masterwork; from EC, given the magnitude, breadth, depth, and brilliance of his body of work, it's an also-ran, nearly forgotten -- eclipsed by so many other iconic treasures he's given us.
MelodyChiappetta, thank you for posting it here at the higher bitrate, so it'll sound better to us perfectionist-types. Ya done good.
Beautiful....simply beautiful.
Beautiful in so many ways
This is my ultimate favorite Eric Clapton song ❤️
life it is, we all have had it.......
Me too
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AMEN SHERRY, AMEN!
It's funny, Clapton is most known as being a guitar god, and yet, there aren't that many of his radio hits that rely on a guitar solo to carry the song. This is such a great song with such a great hook that doesn't have to shout out the guitar chords in order to reinforce his divinity.
I enjoy listening to his guitar solos, but this quiet little diddy is my favorite of all his songs.
I've been thinking about that as well. What I find really strange though is that a lot of his most revered guitar work was done in Cream, and Cream seems to have kind of slipped through the cracks as far as remembering classic rock goes, at least when it comes to pop culture and merchandise, but everyone know's Clapton's name, but most of his best guitar work was done in the 60s or very early 70s before he went solo, which he did some very nice stuff like this, it just puzzles me how certain things get remembered in certain ways.
I think he is one of the most simplistic guitarrists ever, and one of the most versatile. It's incredible how he is responsable for something like 'White Room', from Cream, and for 'I've got a rock n'roll heart', which is one of my favourites. 'Old Love', from his solo carreer, is a masterpiece. He is one of the greatests blues guitarrists alive too, and it's just awesome how the list goes on.
Sonya Kokus
Sonya Kokus
It's all good. He is and will be remembered for may things. Guitar hero, great entertainer, song writer singer and the only 3 time Rock n Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
Absolutely amazing song by one of the living legends! Love this song...
Such a nice,smooth,WONDERFUL song from THE GREAT ERIC CLAPTON!!
one of his best blues in disguise songs! Slow hand's true genius to hide a blues song in a pop type song! I think that's why so many people still love it after all these years!! Thank you Mr. Clapton!!!!
Exactly how I 've felt for the last 4 years out of 19, but just can't seem to leave. Sometimes I guess we part ways and still live under the same roof.
Understood & I can relate. God bless your relationship with new life as you seek the Lifegiver. I can relate.
Well said
Who’s listening to this wonderful tune in July 2019???!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks my dear friend! Enjoy your summer!
❤️T
tracey szostek 😍👍🏼😘
Aug 2019, still loving it like it was yesterday!
Late August 2019
my favorite Eric C song....yeah i get all the others but this is still my favorite...feels the best.
this classic is so unique to us all ,mr clapton is a pure genius in every aspect ,ive loved him since his beginning ,,thats a long time xxx ps xx
Perfect song ! I love metal , hard rock , and guitar heroes of all time , but this song is perfect it's all
For sure
this really hits home after 18 years of marriage.
Excelente, me transporta a lugares que ya no volvere... Simplemente perfecto
A complete master.
The Promises never end... how you keep them just changes.
Love is different at 15, 18, 22, 28,35, 46, 55, 64, 73 and 82. If she can change as you do....