Nature is likely one of the biggest inspirations for songwriters. Sting’s “Fields of Gold” is likely one of the best examples from the Nineteen Nineties, taking within the golden barley fields outdoors his Sixteenth-century manor home within the coronary heart of the English countryside. In Sting’s guide, Lyrics, the songwriter explains the facility of evocative landscapes: “In England, our home is surrounded by barley fields, and in the summertime it’s fascinating to look at the wind shifting over the shimmering floor, like waves on an ocean of gold. There’s one thing inherently horny concerning the sight, one thing primal.”
Take heed to Sting’s “Fields of Gold” on the digital Expanded Version of Ten Summoner’s Tales.
The fields present the imagery, however the tune is a few relationship. Advised chronologically, Sting takes us by way of the uncertainty that we endure after we first fall for somebody, pondering, “Will you be my love?” The tune navigates its approach by way of marriage, youngsters, and, ultimately, the inevitable last parting with a repetition of the beautiful line “you’ll bear in mind me when the west wind strikes.” He merely desires to be remembered “as they stroll in fields of gold.” Beguiling, wistful, and deeply evocative, “Fields of Gold” is elegant and highly effective, whereas – on the identical time – effortlessly easy. It’s not so onerous to imagine that this observe is certainly a metaphor for love itself; how love could be highly effective and in addition easy, however solely when it’s with the correct individual.
The tune was recorded on the very residence that impressed “Fields of Gold.” Sting had transformed his eating room into a house studio. David Sancious, who performed keys, as soon as recalled that a part of the fantastic thing about “Fields of Gold” was the “dwell, in-the-studio recording.” He revealed there have been no overdubs. At coronary heart, it’s simply “a extremely easy tune.”
In 2008, when requested which tune he’d want he’d written, Paul McCartney himself stated: “There’s all the time a pair that I hear that I feel I’d have preferred (to have written). I preferred Sting’s ‘Fields Of Gold’, and I believed, ‘Y’know what, I ought to have written that.’” A clearly delighted Sting took to social media to thank Sir Paul saying, “There are various of Paul’s that I want I might have written. To listen to this from somebody I owe my life to could be very particular.”
There have additionally been loads of splendid interpretations by different artists, together with Katie Melua and Eva Cassidy. Each renditions are stunning, however the authentic by Sting is a sheer masterclass each lyrically and melodically.
Take heed to Sting’s “Fields of Gold” on the digital Expanded Version of Ten Summoner’s Tales.