They're growing houses in the fields between the townsnAnd the Starlight drive-in movie's closing downnThe road is gone to the way it was beforenAnd the spaces won't be spaces anymorennTwo more farms were broken by the droughtnFirst the Wagners now the Fullers pulling outnDevelopers paid better than the cornnBut this was not the place where they were bornnnThere's houses in the fieldsnNo prayers for steady rain this yearnHouses in the fieldsnThere's houses in the fieldsnAnd the last few farms are growing out of herennAt first he wouldn't sell and then he wouldnNow they'll be children playing where the silo stoodnThe word came from the marrow of his bonesnIt was the last sure way to pay off all the loansnnThe new streets will be named for kings and queensnAnd a ransom will be payed for every castle's dreamnThe model sign is crested with a lionnAnd the farmers they will have enough to die onnnThere's houses in the fieldsnNo prayers for steady rain this yearnHouses in the fieldsnThere's houses in the fieldsnAnd the last few farms are growing out of herennI guess no one should be afraid of changenBut tell me why is there a fence for every open rangenIt's a sign I'm getting on in yearsnWhen nothing new is welcome to these eyes and earsnnThere's houses in the fieldsnNo prayers for steady rain this yearnHouses in the fieldsnThere's houses in the fieldsnAnd the last few farms are growing out of herennThey're growing houses in te fields between the townsnAnd the Starlight drive-in movie's closing downnThe road is gone to the way it was beforenAnd the spaces won't be spaces anymorenAnd the spaces won't be spaces anymore