1. |
I Can't Wake Up
03:08
|
|||
|
I Can’t Wake Up
Kent Agee
Look at these lines, they keep on coming
Into the distance, backwards and forwards
Infinite time, I hear it humming
All my resistance is just a joke
King of the World, who am I kidding
Can’t even tell my head what to do
Hand on the rail, keeping my balance
Let go and disappear into the blue
I can’t wake up, I can’t wake up
And I can’t fall asleep
The start won’t stop, the loop keeps running
And I‘m caught outside looking in, watch myself still saying…
Look at that kid, dreaming of dreaming
Halfway alive I can see through him
Hoping things move in automatic
Baby I love you, is that enough
Show me my face, I haven’t seen it
I think I’m a dancer if I could let go
Say I’m alright and make me believe it
I don’t want to know anything that I know
I can’t wake up, I can’t wake up
And I can’t fall asleep
The start won’t stop, the loop keeps running
And I‘m caught outside looking in, watch myself still saying…
|
||||
2. |
Crop Circles
04:46
|
|||
|
Crop Circles
Kent Agee
There are sirens on the next street painting spirals on a door
Someone’s pounding in the upstairs tracing geometric patterns on the floor
There’s a dog chained in the back yard walking dead-rings in the dark
And the Rorschach in the gridlock…
I don’t know what they mean, but I know what they are
Have you seen the one where the guy falls down
Or the angry cat, or the eight-year-old
Who can play guitar like she’s lived a life
Ninety-million likes, It’s got to mean something
Crop circles
People drowning in the broadband, I can feel it on my skin
Information running through me, hollowed out and filled back in
And the headphones are all ingrown, and the ringing never stops
It’s the blank stare into nowhere, as the fat lady sings and the microphone drops
But have you seen the one with the singing dog
Or the car on fire, or that chick who crawls
From the tv screen, man I just can’t stop
I could sit right here, it’s got to mean something
crop circles
Have you seen that bear, like it’s just too cute
Did you get swiped right, do your eyes have people
Who check all day to see just how blue,
Don’t you hate that song, play it one more time
And those Asian boys, that’s no accident
Like your baby jacked-up on nursery rhymes
Get your tongue just right while the World burns down
Seven billion hits, it’s got to mean something
crop circles, crop circles
|
||||
3. |
Switchblade
04:01
|
|||
|
Switchblade
Kent Agee
On the switchblade edge of darkness, between hope and desperation
Where danger speaks in riddles and love feels like starvation
He stands outside the cafe and speaks in waiting whispers
Listening for her footsteps tattooing the distance
She could have been a dancer, she moves in automatic
She doesn’t want to hurt anyone, it just comes out of habit
She’s turned so many corners another one won’t matter
They both know where it’s going as soon as he looks at her
You can almost hear the click
You can almost feel the cut
You can almost hear the click
You can almost feel the cut
Someone will go too far, somebody quits too fast
Someone will come home too soon, somebody comes in last
The hope is mostly honest but the timing’s always wrong
Somebody wakes up too late and finds somebody gone
You can almost hear the click
You can almost feel the cut
You can almost hear the click
You can almost feel the cut
She has a way of smiling that makes the music louder
He walks a tightrope circle of hunger close around her
The jukebox almost crying, it’s rhyming lies in rhythm
About a love undying and every sin forgiven
You can almost hear the click
You can almost feel the cut
You can almost hear the click
You can almost feel the cut
|
||||
4. |
Linda and Linda
04:03
|
|||
|
Linda and Linda
Kent Agee
In the mud somewhere in Indiana,
There’s a shoe that fit when I was nine
Life was so soft back then, you slowly sank in
I thought I pulled my leg out just in time
But two voices woke me up last night,
They broke out of my past somehow
It was a look and a kiss from two chances I missed
That have nothing to do with me now
Linda and Linda here we go again
I guess you’re not done with me yet
The tunnel of love has no light at the end
And the darkness will never forget
I met a man I don’t know in my bathroom
He’s hanging on the wall over my sink
Now every time I go in he’s watching me watching him
And demands to be told what I think
And there’s a woman outside my door screaming
She has my name tattooed on her ass
Yeah it’s easy to see you can’t tell what will be
The one mark you make that will last
Linda and Linda here we go again
I guess you’re not done with me yet
The tunnel of love has no light at the end
And the darkness will never forget
All the things that we do trying to be someone who
Someone wants to lie down with at night
All the dreams that we chase, the mistakes we can’t face
And the wrong ways of being alright
There are dinosaur tracks in Montana
They say he was fifty feet tall
When they dig up my shoe how will it tell the truth
Of the life of a creature so small
Linda and Linda here we go again
I guess you’re not done with me yet
The tunnel of love has no light at the end
And the darkness will never forget
|
||||
Kent Agee Nashville, Tennessee
First known in Nashville as the creator and lead-singer of Warner rock act, Jane His Wife, Kent Agee has become recognized as one of the most versatile writers in the music industry. With cuts by acts as diverse as Barbra Streisand, Jon Pardi, Vanessa Williams, Tom Keifer, Rodney Atkins, Evan & Jaron and Del McCoury to name a few. ... more
If you like Kent Agee, you may also like:
24th Street Blues
by Tom Heyman
Tom Heyman documents life in San Francisco circa 2023, refusing to succumb to easy characterization & instead capturing the city’s nuance.
go to album
Thoughtful and poetic folk with a Cosmic Americana flavor from the Brooklyn singer-songwriter.
go to album
featured on Bandcamp Radio Nov 1, 2016
go to album
Fear of Frying
by Eggs Over Easy
In honor of the band’s 50th Anniversary, Yep Roc have reissued the 1980 album by pub rock pioneers Eggs Over Easy.
go to album
Zed For Zulu
by Those Pretty Wrongs
Jody Stephens of Big Star and Luther Russell of the Freewheelers team for a radiant LP packed full of slide guitar and pop smarts.
go to album
Downey to Lubbock
by Dave Alvin
Soulful guitar interplay form the heart of this lovely Americana collaboration from Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore.
go to album
Realize
by Tumbleweed Wanderers
Epic, folksy psych-pop, diligently crafted from sessions recorded in a beach studio and an old San Francisco mansion.
go to album
