My Father's Eyes (5:23)

My Father’s Eyes is a song written and performed by Eric Clapton and produced by Clapton himself and Simon Climie. It was released as a single in 1998 and was featured on the album Pilgrim. The song reached the top 40 and won a Grammy award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. The song is inspired by the fact that Clapton never met his father, who died in 1985. Clapton retired the song in 2004.

Clapton performed this track for the first time in 1992 and 1996 in both electric and unplugged versions, which were totally different than the original 1998 release.

In the music video, we see a dribbling basketball which dribbles seven times, the seventh dribble causing the basketball to break into pieces. This dribbling footage returns at the end of the video, without the basketball breaking.