The song Eric Clapton thought was “too melodramatic”Any blues artist like Eric Clapton knows the importance of sharing their pain on vinyl. Because there’s a fine line between being one of the greatest blues artists in the world and coming off like you’re complaining. Despite having to deal with heartache on all sides of his career, Clapton needed to get some anger off his chest as well. Even if he felt a lot of pain in his heart, Clapton felt he couldn’t go through with making a song this vindictive, saying, “It started getting vindictive. It got quite vindictive in some of its early stages, and at some point I started feeling like the lyrics were becoming too melodramatic.