The Eric Clapton album featuring “Change the World” and “My Father’s Eyes” is Pilgrim. Released in 1998, Pilgrim was Clapton’s thirteenth solo studio album and marked a polished, contemporary turn in his sound, combining blues and guitar-driven songwriting with programmed rhythms, keyboards, and atmospheric production.
“My Father’s Eyes” became one of the album’s signature songs. Clapton wrote it partly from the perspective of never having met his own father and partly in connection with his son Conor, who died in 1991. “Change the World,” meanwhile, had first been recorded for the soundtrack to the film Phenomenon and became a major hit before appearing in connection with Pilgrim releases.
A common source of confusion is that “Change the World” is strongly associated with the 1996 film and soundtrack, while Pilgrim is the album most often named alongside it in Clapton’s studio catalog. Pilgrim was nominated for four Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, and helped define Clapton’s late-1990s mainstream sound.