Fields & Fences

Album: Yellowcard (2016)
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Songfacts®:

  • "Fields & Fences" is the the closing track on Yellowcard's self-titled 2016 album, which they thought would be their last. The primary goal of the album was to give thanks to the fans who stuck by them during their 20-year run. "We knew we were going to be putting 10 songs on the record before we started writing," frontman Ryan Key told Entertainment Weekly, "so I wanted to try to find 10 different ways to say farewell to this chapter of our lives."

    Yellowcard toured for the album, then called it quits. But it wasn't their final farewell: A few years later, interest in the band swelled as their pop-punk sound came back around. They reunited in 2022 and released another album, Better Days, in 2025.
  • This country-tinged tune features an octave mandolin, which Sean Mackin, the band's violinist, brought in as an experiment. Ryan Key recalled: "He had this really cool piece of music and we turned it into a seven-minute long finale, an epic ending to the last record. It's just exactly what I wanted it to be, the last thing you hear."
  • The lyrics reflect lead singer Ryan Key's move to Tennessee in 2014. He found the pastoral landscape soothing, an awakening for his soul.

Comments: 1

  • Chrismcleen from Texasits so hard to iisten to this album 6 years later i miss this band
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