Fields of gold

Sometimes feel there is nothing stronger than soulful music that comforts a man in troubled times . And there is nothing quite as much wonderful a person can leave behind than music that alleviates the pain and suffering of millions across cultures and creed.Reminds me of a scene that particulary touched me, in its wisdom and emotion, from my all time favorite movie 'shawshank redemption' . Andy (Tim robbins) locks the warden's room on the inside, gets some Mozart records and plays an aria of 'marriage of Figaro" over the prison loud-speaker system .He sits there , legs over the table, relishing the music unmindful of the consequences, obliging only by turning up the volume when the warden orders him to shut it down. The whole prison comes to a standstill as everyone, prisoner or guard, looks up at the speakers, mesmerized by the music. "I don't know what those ladies were singing. It was so beautiful, so deep, it couldn't be expressed in words. Made the walls dissolve. Every last man felt free" a fellow prisoner remarks . Andy is put in an isolation chamber for a month as a result of his misadventure. And later when Red (Morgan Freeman) asks him if it was worth doing it ,

Andy: I had Mr. Mozart to keep me company...(He points and taps his head) It was in here. (And he gestures over his heart) And in here. That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you. Haven't you ever felt that way about music?...Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so we don't forget...that there are places in the world that aren't made out of stone, that there's, there's somethin' inside that they can't get to, that they can't touch. It's yours.

Red: What are you talkin' about?

Andy: Hope.

Well , music, love and hope might quite well be the three entities that can find a man and a man finds inturn even in his darkest disposition . And to bequeth any of those to the world, I believe, is truly the most endearing thing a person can do. Came across this beautiful rendition of sting's original 'Fields of Gold' by Eva cassidy. The video belonging to 'Brokeback mountain' ,the well-known and very-sensitive gay love story of last year.The song is part of the album 'songbird' released in 1998, two years after Eva's death from cancer at the age of 33 .It touched me no end ,the voice and emotions of a person no more, so selflessly comforting than many a person alive in their own terms.



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..
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..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocwLOQcGaow