McCartney Times

At some point, all joy and love eventually come to an end. There is the courtship, love, and then the inevitable: death. This was part of the sentiment behind Sting‘s 1993 hit “Fields of Gold,” released on his fourth album, Ten Summoner’s Tales.Sting wrote the song after purchasing a 16th-century manor house near a barley field in Wiltshire, England. Inspired by the amber and golden-tinged sunsets and colors surrounding the fields, the song was also a tribute to Sting’s love, Trudie Styler, whom he married in 1992.

You’ll remember me when the west wind moves

Upon the fields of barley

You’ll forget the sun in his jealous sky

As we walk in fields of gold

So she took her love

For to gaze a whileUpon the fields of barley

In his arms she fell as her hair came down

Among the fields of gold

“I’m using poetic license to alter syntax,” said Sting of the lyric So she took her love for to gaze awhile upon the fields of barley. “I wanted to create a timeless idea that the song could have been written in the sixteenth century.”

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Source: The Early ’90s Sting Ballad That Paul McCartney Said He “Should Have Written” – American Songwriter