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Fields and Fences

by Kent Agee

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1.
From Now On 03:25
From Now On KentAgee/TommyLeeJames I’ve got no strings to hold me down from now on I’ll be the king of this old town from now on Stay out late and you won’t care from now on Yeah, things are gonna be different ‘round here from now on I can go too far, I can act the fool Ain’t nobody gonna ask me why I can do just what I want to do But when I come home at night I’m gonna cry just a little I’m gonna miss you baby I’m gonna die just a little ‘cause you’re gone From now on You won’t ever whisper my name from now on I’ve got no-one but myself to blame from now on (chorus) If I see you out on some summer night And you’re laughing with the one you love I’ll just smile and say, “hey I’m doing all right” But I know when I’m alone I’m gonna cry just a little I’m gonna miss you baby I’m gonna die just a little ‘cause you’re gone From now on
2.
Love Is a Boat Kent Agee the waters of life they get deep, they get dark they don’t stand still, no they rage like a river going over a fall and sometimes all you can do is reach out and hold on to anything but then out of the corner of your eye you see the gleam ...in another eye going by You swim hard, suddenly you touch And then it happens, children let me hear you sing.... Love is a boat, through the sea of changes up ahead Everybody’s bound to get a little wet But Love is a boat, When you’re out there struggling all alone When this world tries to sink you like a stone You can stay afloat, yes Love is a boat Well I’ve done my share of spinning in the tide Shipwrecked, half drowned, Lord I was bedraggled when you found me or did I find you, really doesn’t matter who found who I guess But right here in the center of my heart I felt a message from the center of another heart that was me and you turning into us now look at us drifting, stars shining up above (chorus) Some boats have got a motor, some just a paddle Some they got an anchor you can’t pull in But oh how some sail..... Like Time’s a blue sky.... And Faith’s a fair wind (chorus)
3.
Gingham Dress KentAgee/MichaelLunn Sitting on the road today, trying just to get back home Racing with the world again, listening to the radio A man was on there saying these are complicated times That no-one knows where they are going or what they want to find But you know I’m not lost or confused I’m just coming home to you Put on that gingham dress, the one that’s the color of your eyes The way that it clings to you soft and warm, that’s the way I want to feel tonight It’s been too long, another lonesome day is through Put on that gingham dress so I can take it off of you I know you’re thinking it’s too plain, you laugh and say it’s out of style But it’s kind of like the moonlight baby, kind of like the way you smile So effortlessly perfect, so accidentally right It fits you like a whisper and it falls just like a sigh Oh I love everything that you do But right now I’m asking you.... (chorus) I want to slip it off your shoulders, pull you close close beside me now And feel the world slow down (chorus)
4.
Faithless Girl Kent Agee She’s got a look in her eyes that only a daddy could trust And a smile that says “I’m sorry for what I’m gonna do” But still that’s what she always does When she laughs it’s like the breaking of china The pretty shattering of somebody’s youth But when she kisses me somehow it feels like the truth I still see the look I let lead me astray First I swore that she’d been saving it just for me Then I swore I just got in it’s way And in between I tried believing she loved me And through it all she tried believing it too And when she kissed me it was so easy to do Let me die with the arms of trust around me Let me walk with one true love by my side Let me find someone incomplete without me But let me lie with my faithless girl tonight I came home one night and she was with some other man And though she tried to play the part of the guilty one It was clear she didn’t understand So I said she had to change or I’d leave her But those were things neither one of us could do And when she kissed me I knew to her it was true (chorus) I remember when I finally told her goodbye She cried just like an innocent child then Too often now I wonder why I guess she didn’t want me to need her But she needed to be wanted so much Then she kissed me, but one kiss was never enough
5.
Love Will Come Around KentAgee/MichaelLunn Jimmy Holsapple had a job at a pay-pond Sortin out fishin worms, dozen in a box Sweepin up around the place, cleanin out the minnow-tank Pickin up the Nehi bottles people dropped Jenny Lee Soper drove a two-tone Chrysler Man she’d turn your head, no you couldn’t help yourself Daddy owned the lumber-yard, credit on his credit card Yeah she was a catch far as anyone could tell But down at the pond on any Friday night There’s Jenny Lee staring into Jimmy’s eyes Singing hey now, find a hand to hold When it’s gonna happen, man you never know Don’t try figuring it out Love will come around when love will come around Love will come around when love will come around Another time, another place, cowgirl in a barrel-race Kelli Ann Walters kickin up the dirt Winning every rodeo, all the wranglers loved her though Reins in her teeth and rhinestones on her shirt Up there walkin through the stands, tray of peanuts in his hand Johnny Wallace workin, yellin “get ‘em while they’re hot” A hundred twenty soakin wet, never rode a horse and yet All the cowboys want what they know Johnny’s got Cause down at the chuckwagon when the day is done It’s gonna be Johnny Kelli Ann is kissin on (chorus) Aint no tellin how, aint no guessin who Where’s it gonna fall what’s it gonna do You can stumble through a hundred lonely nights Suddenly you’re lookin right into love’s eyes (chorus)
6.
Omens of the End Kent Agee Israel Hendren had three calves born dead on Christmas day Jacob Masters’ well-water’s gone sour Luby Starns’ red layin’ hen done hatched a serpent’s egg And I wonder where you are There was two rings around the Moon the night that we were wed I took it as a sign your love was true Now the widow Walters swears she saw a crow fly overhead When you said I do Oh Tribulation I know your name Oh Ruination your hair is brown and your eyes are green Judgement will come, no man may know when But I have seen the omens of the end You knelt with me there on the ground, you held my hand in prayer You swore the world would crumble ‘fore we’d part Now the preacher’s oldest boy’s run off and your travelin’ bag aint there And the sky is growing dark (chorus) Lord help us Satan’s not the twisted thing our children dread Oh fall down on your knees the day you learn Her face is fair, her lips are sweet and she’ll lie in your bed Then leave you there to burn
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Pleasant View Lane KentAgee/TammyRogers In the beginning was a red-dirt road Purple iris and a crawdad hole Three little houses pretty near the same In the beginning there was Pleasant View Lane I was a cowboy I was Superman too Saving the neighbor girl is what I’d do Then I’d jump on my bike and hear my theme-song play Ride into the sunset on Pleasant View Lane So take my hand, life may change While we can let’s walk together down Pleasant View Lane I remember the summer when the shop closed down We moved into a duplex in the heart of town The little patch of sky we had was still as blue We just couldn’t see as far as we used to Black-top streets they tore the world apart Seems like all you see is cold and hard You grow too fast when everything is gray You grow too fast away from Pleasant View Lane (chorus) Everything looked better, everything looked bright Wheat-field freedom in the daytime, my mother’s lullabies at night The road across forever was never far away It ran right down the middle of Pleasant View Lane (chorus)
8.
Lenny 04:06
Lenny Kent Agee/George M Green Lenny’s in jail with his dagger tattoo He’s missing his baby, he’s missing a tooth The camera caught him as he slipped out the door Stealing some milk from the grocery store Lenny was raised by his grandfather’s hand He learned the hard lessons about being a man Don’t swallow no handouts, don’t swallow your pride Take care of your family and keep them alive Draw a line down the page,. make a list, black and white One column for wrong and one column for right And in our wise judgment how will we decide On which side to write down “the will to survive” The judge says to Lenny as he stands in his court My memory is long but my patience is short Three times before me for the very same crime Now you’re going to prison for a very long time Lenny writes letters to his eight-year-old girl He says, “You’re too young to know the ways of the world This land stands for justice and the right to be free It stands for the rich man but it won’t stand for me” (chorus) We read in the papers and see on the news Junk-bonds and millionaires play fast and loose In a land of free enterprise is it a crime That Lenny’s wife waits in the soup-kitchen line Now it’s ten years later and nothing’s much changed ‘Cause poverty’s stronger that shackles and chains Lenny’s young daughter, she has a daughter herself It’s a wheel in a wheel and it turns on itself And nobody leaves ‘cause there’s nowhere to go We keep our distance and let the cameras roll While Lenny’s life runs out, a red stain in the dirt Shot in the back by a grocery-store clerk
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Rose Connally Kent Agee Rose Connally wore a blue flowered dress It was soft, like the color of her eyes I tried not to see how it clung to her breast Lord I prayed but it stayed on my mind I had sworn my affections to another all my life I loved her, did not wish to cause her pain So I hardened my heart to what the flesh would have me do And turned the fair Rose Connally away Now this world has turned my children into strangers Who won’t call no dead tobacco farm their home My wife sits all day and reads the Revelations While I wander ‘round these wasted fields alone And count the years Rose Connally’s been gone There’s nine miles of fence strung around this old farm Hung it myself, back when it held something in With a hundred-pound roll of wire under each arm I’d climb that hill, it weren’t nothin’ to me then And Rose would be standin’ by that property line Callin’ to me with a voice as sweet as her name But I kept workin’ that ground, staying straight and lookin’ down She was gone when I looked up again (chorus)
10.
The Wild Midwest Kent Agee They came here in a covered wagon It was a ‘57 Pontiac He was born in the billboard wilderness The year the mall shot main street in the back He had a hand-me-down dream about a ranch-house About a woman in a long, green dress But he was too good he thought, too fast to get caught Living in the wild Midwest In the wild Midwest, at high-noon the factory whistles blow The streets are alive with desperadoes, desperate to find where the money goes In the wild Midwest, they’re digging for hope in wheat fields of gold Trying to cash in the promise their dad’s were sold Trying to outrun the outlaw called “Growing Old” In the wild Midwest Outside of town there’s a cross-roads And a tree where the Renos were hung Parked there one night in the summer moonlight He planted the seed of a son So he gave up the guns of a young man And put on the hero’s white hat He kissed his new wife and went to face down the life That headed him off at the pass (chorus) Cowboys and quickdraws working for their two weeks off Trying just to make near what they spend Dance-hall romancers on the trail of an answer For all the things they might have been (chorus)
11.
Lyda Rose 04:11
Lyda Rose Kent Agee/Will Robinson Standing all alone on highway nine Early morning it was summer time They were waiting for the six-o-five to take them away She was quiet, they were holding hands She knew her momma wouldn’t understand He was watching her and wondering about the plans they’d made Praying she would not forget how she felt when he first said... Lyda Rose come with me out beyond these fields and fences Lyda Rose come with me and see the things we dreamed about Take this road where it leads find out where the other end is We both know we won’t go if we don’t go now...Lyda Rose Thinking ‘bout her hand-me-down suitcase The pink dress she had packed away That her momma made for graduation day, one he’d never seen before Imagining how happy she would be A married woman with a family Coming back so everyone could see that she’d found something more But when he said, the bus is here she could not hide her tears (chorus) That day sixty years ago She sat and watched him leave alone Now her suitcase sits by her bedroom door With a faded dress she never wore (chorus)
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Wouldn’t You Kent Agee/Joe Scutella She fell down on her knees and said I’m begging please take me instead of him With her hand placed on his head there in the darkness by the bed that he lay in Whispering a mother’s prayer she held his hand and stayed right there the long night through Well if I was the good Lord I would give her what she asked for, wouldn’t you Wouldn’t you make it right Wouldn’t you if you could Wouldn’t you do what you could do to do a little good Wouldn’t you, wouldn’t I Change if we listened to The voice inside us all that’s calling...wouldn’t you Somewhere in the world out there another boy, another prayer another night Lying silent with his gun, holding his breath, waiting on the coming fight Through the courage of his youth wondering why a man must do the things we do Well if I had to kill or die I think that I would ask why, wouldn’t you (chorus) Every day I see the chance to turn away or lend a hand somehow To be honest I must say most times I take the easy way around....but (chorus)
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Ophelia 03:22
Ophelia KentAgee/JoeScutella Ophelia walks down by the water making daisy-chains all day long Ophelia gave her heart and never got it back again, now she’s gone Once a woman she’s become a little child Done with this cruel world that did her wrong You can hear her singing in a voice like broken glass and nursery rhymes Bells of mourning ringing but she still hears him whispering “will you be mine” Somewhere back in time Ophelia someone should have told you This world is much to hard for love so true Ophelia keeps memories like butterflies in mason jars inside her mind She’s sealed them up, she hides her young man’s love too deeply in her heart for death to find Barefoot in the river now she speaks his name Then lies down forever in his arms (chorus)

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released February 20, 2014

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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

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