Fields of Gold - Sting
Monday, October 26, 2009
, Posted by SongBird at 8:35 AM
Sting wrote this love song with his guitar after her bought a house near a barley field. The sunsets and the colors of the field were an inspiration for the lyrics, along with his love at the time.
The story is chronological. It is about courtship, marriage, and eventual death. The two people in the song meet, court, fall in love (at this point, he reveals that he has never really made such a strong promise/commitment to someone) but feels he is ready to now. "See the children run," their offspring and the "jealous sky" refer to the Heavens. Even Heaven is jealous of their love/relationship. The esteemed sun is jealous. Eventually, he dies and tells his love that they will always remember their love specifically, when she thinks of him, he wants to be personified as such... walking in fields of gold (barley).
Sting's voice is truly haunting and heavenly when he sings it as well as Eva Cassidy. It's just that the lyrics are so nice!!!The music in the background just makes the listener go to another world, a nice state of serenity and beauty. This is just one of those songs that I'll never get tired of as time goes by.
Lyrics
You'll remember me when the west wind moves
Among the fields of barley
You can tell the sun in his jealous sky
When we walked in fields of gold
So she took her love for to gaze awhile
Among the fields of barley
In his arms she fell as her hair came down
Among the fields of gold
Will you stay with me will you be my love
Among the fields of barley
And you can tell the sun in his jealous sky
When we walked in fields of gold
I never made promises lightly
And there have been some that I've broken
But I swear in the days still left
We will walk in fields of gold
We'll walk in fields of gold
I never made promises lightly
And there have been some that I've broken
But I swear in the days still left
We will walk in fields of gold
We'll walk in fields of gold
Many years have passed since those summer days
Among the fields of barley
See the children run as the sun goes down
As you lie in fields of gold
You'll remember me when the west wind moves
Among the fields of barley
You can tell the sun in his jealous sky
When we walked in fields of gold
When we walked in fields of gold
When we walked in fields of gold
Fields of Gold - Sting
Eva Cassidy died in 1996, aged 33, from melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer. The voice of an angel who will live on in her songs.
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