Honey Light on the Fields

“Honey-Light on the Fields” is an Americana, indie folk, and organic country song from The Moon Hippie’s fourth album, Where the Day Meets the Stars. There’s a kind of light that only seems to arrive when the day is almost finished with it. Honey-Light on the Fields begins just after an August rain. The storm has moved west, droplets are still clinging to the fence, puddles fill the country lane, and then the sun breaks beneath the clouds. For a few precious minutes, everything turns gold. This song is about standing still long enough to witness something beautiful that you already know you cannot keep. The sun will set. The shadows will lengthen. The honey-light will disappear. But its disappearing doesn’t make the moment less meaningful. Some of the most beautiful things in life are temporary. We don’t have to hold onto them forever for them to become part of us. As the seventh song on Where the Day Meets the Stars, Honey-Light on the Fields carries the album out of the rainy afternoon and into golden hour. The day is beginning its slow descent toward dusk, and the music opens with it—warmer, wider, and more sweeping than the songs that came before. If this song finds you in the middle of something beautiful that you wish could stay a little longer, I hope you let yourself simply be there while it lasts. Let it glow. Let it fade. Nothing beautiful is wasted just because it couldn’t stay. — The Moon Hippie