The Tracks of My Tears My Tears" was a number 2 hit on the "Billboard" R&B chart, and it reached number 16 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. Belatedly released in the UK in 1969, it became a Top Ten hit that summer, reaching number 9 (the UK release was credited to "Smokey Robinson and the Miracles"). This song is considered to be among the finest recordings of The Miracles, and it sold over one million records within two years, making it The Miracles' fourth million-selling record. The Miracles can be seen performing "The Tracks of My Tears" on their 2006 Motown DVD release, "The Miracles'
The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away Tränen mein Heiland selbst ab" ("Come, O death, brother of sleep, come and lead me forth; my saviour himself shall wipe my tears away"). The father tells his son that the words mean that the emperor will wipe their tears away. The plot is a failure, and the conspirators are all killed (in the narrator's opinion, "very likely" by American agents in disguise). At the moment of his father's death, he recalls that he saw, "high in the sky... a shining gold chrysanthemum against a vast background of purple light... the light from that flower irradiated his Happy Days". By