| Sting – Fields of Gold Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song is so wonderful. I forgot about it for a long time, but I heard it at Starbucks on May 5 and remembered how much I loved it. It reminds me of at least 6 different things: my childhood/family, Maine, California, another song, the guy I like, and his mother. I was born in 1992, and Fields of Gold came out in 1993. It used to play a lot on the soft rock station my parents listened to. My parents are currently going through a separation after 29 years of marriage, and whenever I listen to this song, I think of when my parents used to at least speak to each other, when my brother and sister still lived at home, when I used to play with my neighbors before they all turned into druggies, criminals, and psychos...and everything else I loved about the '90s. I think of all the years my family lived in this house, and how that's all going to be over very soon. Listening to it often makes me cry, and the line, "See the children run as the sun goes down," makes me want to do everything I can to have a good marriage and raise good kids and not end up like my family did. Also, like other people said, this song is about commitment. He has broken promises, but the best he can do is try his best to make things work in the future. My family moved to Maine for my first two years of high school, and the first time I heard this song while I was there, the imagery reminded me of Maine's golden fields (like the ones on the farms I got to go past every day on my way to school) and how beautiful it was when the sun was setting over them. It was sort of the same thing when I moved back to California, except that when California's fields aren't green, many of them are more brown than golden. ; ) I tend to like songs that are about places--this one, Led Zeppelin's Kashmir, James Taylor's Copperline, etc. Fields of Gold reminds me a lot of Copperline. I believe when I was in Maine they both reminded me a lot of a certain pretty, hilly, open area in the woods at the end of my road. I'm not quite sure why, but Fields of Gold also reminds me a lot of the guy I like and his mother. Besides the fact that they are beautiful too, maybe it's related to the fact that it also reminds me of the '90s and my family. Their house/his mother's business is right next to the main highway in our town, and I've probably gone past it thousands of times, but I didn't know until recently that that was what it was, or that our families both moved here in 1991. When I hear the line, "In his arms she fell as her hair came down," I imagine that it's a courtship at the beginning of a lifelong commitment, the woman looks like me, but older, and her hair is golden like the fields. And I love how every time he says upon/among, it sounds different. Someone else said they liked the Eva Cassidy version better because of the clarity of her voice, but I like how Sting's voice is somewhat unclear in this song. I think that makes it sound more relaxing, which is just what this song is to me. I love the way he sings the words "west wind moves" (when I hear it it's almost like I can feel the warm breeze) and many other lines. Just one of the most beautiful and touching songs I've ever heard. P.S. I love what norcalguy101 said. |
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| Andrew Peterson – Dancing in the Minefields Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| No comments?! I love this song. It makes me cry because it reminds me so much of my boyfriend and me. I am 18 and he is 22, and we plan to get married in August 2014, when we are more financially stable and I am almost finished with college. Sure, some people will probably think we're too young and naive (my mother and several other people on her side of the family are firm believers that you must be finished with college and preferably in your mid- to late-20s or older when you get married). And sure, marriage is hard--most likely harder than we've dreamed--and it comes with risks. But, like the song says, being willing to lay your life (and wants and preferences) down for the other person is a good foundation, and it is so worth it and so rewarding. Divorce and most marital problems are a direct result of the fact that we are selfish people. Even though it will be tough and you may even feel like giving up sometimes, that's what the promise is for--and if we fully rely on God, he will never forsake us, just like he promised. This song is so hopeful and stirs up so many emotions in me, and it's very relaxing--especially when I listen to it in my car with the bass way up. ; ) Plus, there doesn't seem to be many songs out there that are specifically about marriage. | |
| Tenth Avenue North – Hold My Heart Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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| Tenth Avenue North – By Your Side Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"When I drank the world's sin"? I don't see how this song could be interpreted as being in a relationship with another human. It seems to me to just be a love song from God's point of view to humankind. The song is saying that even when you are at your lowest and you feel like you can't take another step, God will hold you in the palm of his hand and be unconditionally "by your side." This may be the best song ever made. I've had it for 9 months, and it's approaching 600 plays on my iTunes. This song reminds me very vividly of a certain time in my life. This past March, when I was 16 (still am), my then-best friend, who is a guy, seemed like he was starting to change a little and drift from me and his other friends, and then I found out he was going out with a certain girl who I'd always known and had always warned him was completely not right for him. Besides the fact that we'd very recently admitted to each other that we liked each other as more than best friends, I'd seen the way his relationships had gone in the past and I was extremely concerned about him getting into another one. This was the best song I could think of to send to him to remind him of how much God loves him and doesn't want him to hurt himself. Upon receiving this song from me, he said that I apparently knew him better than I thought I did; he has always tried to "earn grace" instead of just accepting it. I reminded him that he was still searching for empty love as though God were not enough, and I reminded him of how much God and I both loved him, and that we would never let him go, and that Jesus died to give him life to the fullest...but unfortunately, we very quickly went from best friends to strangers, and he basically dropped off the face of the earth for 5 months and didn't see anyone but his girlfriend. Ever since then, I have prayed with all my heart that he would realize his mistake and get out of that relationship, and last Thursday, he did. I finally talked to him today, and it was normal and wonderful. Thank God for answered prayers--he really is by our side, and by YOUR side. Anyway...sorry for giving my life story, but this song is such an incredible expression of how much God really, really loves us and will ALWAYS be there for us. When you're at your lowest, or when you need anything, you can always look up. I will never get tired of this song. :) |
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