{"id":558,"date":"2002-12-06T22:13:41","date_gmt":"2002-12-07T01:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/?p=558"},"modified":"2011-06-03T19:05:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T00:05:10","slug":"while-my-guitar-gently-weeps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/while-my-guitar-gently-weeps\/","title":{"rendered":"While My Guitar Gently Weeps"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I feel wonderful because I see
\nThe love light in your eyes.
\nAnd the wonder of it all
\nIs that you just don’t realize how much I love you…”<\/span><\/p>\n

– “Wonderful Tonight” – Eric Clapton<\/a><\/strong> – <\/span><\/p>\n

Legend has it that my middle name came FROM my (then 15 year old) cousin, Valourie… who was quite the Beatles\/Stones\/Yardbirds fan…<\/p>\n

I’ve always loved Eric Clapton<\/strong>. The man doesn’t play guitar… he makes love to it. He makes it scream out, he makes it gently kiss you like a warm summer breeze…<\/p>\n

I was watching VH1 tonight, and “Wonderful Tonight” came on…<\/p>\n

My mind just drifted back 10 years ago, when Carole & I were first married. We were struggling & expecting our first child together. A classic rock station played in the warehouse I was working in, and I always thought of her when that song came on. What she was doing, was everything okay, you know, sappy newlywed stuff like that.<\/p>\n

It kind of became “our song”.
\nWell, except that I never told her about it.
\nThere’s probably a lot of things I should have shared with her over the years… but I just can’t seem to articulate some of the things that go on in my head sometimes.<\/p>\n

Hell, I have no idea what I’m trying to say here…<\/p>\n

Tonight was the first time I heard that song since, and I was pulled back to the present by my 5 year old, who shakes me and asks “Daddy, why are you crying?”<\/p>\n

There must have been something in the rug irritating my eye.
\nYeah that’s it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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