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Written & Produced By Cranston Dean
copyright 2014
"TRACK LIST"
1. BAR'S ABOUT TO CLOSE<
2. UNDERSTAND
3. COMEBACK HOME
4. PURPLE, PINK AND BLUE
5. WHITE LIES
6. MIC CHECK
7. WORKS IN REVERSE
8. ALMOST
9. THE GOOD LIFE
10. HONEY HAIR
11. ALEXANDRIA
Cranston Dean- Keys, Acoustic Guitar & Vox
Riley Schiro - Electric Guitar
Ike Gutierrez - Bass / Vox
Shane Luckenbaugh - Drums
Produced and Mixed by Pat Noon at Eightsixteen in Bayville, NJ
Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music in New Windsor, MY
Album art by Amy Beth Addison
Layout-Tyler Harrison
LYRICS
1. BAR'S ABOUT TO CLOSE
>I've been walking the straight and steady
Teary-eyed, bloody fingers, sweaty clothes. Down the winding road
Sun fell down and the wind blew heavy.
If it blew harder I think I'd lose control.
But I don't know.
I'm going till the sun comes up
and I'm staying till
the bar's about to close.
I took a job by my alma mater
where I fell in love with the gas man's daughter, oh.
The Jersey coast.
Sun was burning the days grow hotter.
I can't live on bread and water, no.
But beer and toast.
I'm going till the sun comes up
and then I'm staying till
the bars about to close.
(break)
Take this path from where it gets me.
I'll ride the bus to where it lets me go.
High or low.
Well, I'm going till the sun comes up
then I'm staying till
the bars about to close.
2. UNDERSTAND
Well I've been walking all around
And it's getting hard to see.
I know we're all the same
You don't look like me.
I dig it.
Until the walls come down
and then we're shining sea to sea.
Can you sweat it, in it, get it, ya dig it, oh.
Shake my hand. Shake My hand.
I don't want to be understood,
I want to understand.
Shake my hand shake my hand
I don't want to be understood I want to understand
I've been through this just to town and I peeled back the centuries. So far to go towards Liberty. I get it. I dig it.
Can't stop progress now or else we'll pay the penalties
Will you sweat it, your in it, you get it, you dig it. oh
Shake my hand. Shake My hand.
I don't want to be understood,
I want to understand.
Shake my hand. Shake My hand.
I don't want to be understood,
I want to understand.
(break)
I didn't get my cap and gown. And I don't blame economy.
And I won't die with a frown if I died in poverty. I get it. I dig it.
But I'd spread it all around if I ever won the lottery. Do you want it? Come get it. I got it. You dig it? oh
Shake my hand. Shake My hand.
I don't want to be understood,
I want to understand.
Shake my hand. Shake My hand.
I don't want to be understood,
I want to understand.
Want to understand you.
Want to understand you.
Want to understand.
3. COMEBACK HOME
She won't answer the door bill.
Pick up the phone.
Come back here.
Come back home.
Color me sorry.
Throw me a bone.
Come back here.
Come back home.
First you were here.
and then you were gone.
Everything's fine.
then everything's wrong.
And if the Angels up above me
work like telephones
they tell her to reach me.
But they don't.
I dream and I see you.
I wake up alone.
Come back here.
Come back home.
I sing the blues.
I cry and I moan.
Come back here.
Come back home.
First you were here.
And then you were gone.
Everything's fine.
Then everything's wrong.
If the angels up above me
worked like telephones
they'd tell her to reach me.
But they don't.
(break)
Well I sing the blues.
I cry and I moan.
Baby come back here.
Come back home.
4. PURPLE, PINK AND BLUE
Don't know what has hit me.
No, I don't know what to do.
Till the day she quits me
I'm going to keep on coming through.
Be loyal like a dog.
Honest straight and true.
For the girl who paints her face all purple, pink, and blue.
She really got to know me
She might find it to be true.
May have been a little lonely
That was long before girl
who paints her face purple, pink, and blue.
Don't know how it started
I can't say, nor can she.
Twist of sweet attraction
come all over me.
Now I'm sure to come around
like the morning dew.
For the girl who paints her
face all purple, pink, and blue.
And if she really got to know me, she might find it to be true.
I may have been a little lonely,
that was long before girl who paints her face purple, pink, and blue.
(break)
Soon as it had started
it was over, said, and done.
Treaty was all charted.
I had lost and she had won.
But I would give my fair share
to start over a new
With the girl who paints her face all purple, pink, and blue.
With the girl who paints her face all purple, pink, and blue.
5. WHITE LIES
Baby I'm just skin and bones
I'm thin. You know my belt
don't have no room for notches.
Have my nose to the ground
like a hound
I can find out all the foxes
I don't know about girls like that
But there's nothing much to know
when you're looking straight at her
and she smiling back.
White Lies pour out of my black lung
and bounce and bound off my tongue.
Don't hate me baby,
I'm just young.
Don't despise me when the morning comes and you reach your hand to see I'm gone. I rose up early with the Sun.
So baby, throw your sticks and stones
All the words you own don't hold the weight to grieve me.
Will all the things that you have seen,
you saw them in a magazine, or on the TV.
But I don't know about girls like that.
But there's nothing much to know when you're looking straight at her and she smiling back.
White Lies pour out of my black lung
and bounce and bound off my tongue.
Don't hate me baby,
I'm just young.
Don't despise me when the morning comes and you reach your hand to see I'm gone. I rose up early with the Sun.
(break)
White Lies pour out of my black lung
and bounce and bound off my tongue.
Don't hate me baby,
I'm just young.
Don't despise me when the morning comes and you reach your hand to see I'm gone. I rose up early with the Sun.
I rose up early with the Sun
I rose up early with the Sun
I rose up early with the Sun
I rose up early with the Sun
I rose up early with the Sun
I rose up early with the Sun
6. MIC CHECK
Well I woke up this morning;
A long-lost lover on my mind.
Well I woke up this morning;
My long-lost lover on my mind
She's the last thought at night time
Damn right the first one in the morning light.
Well I can hear my baby crying.
Well, I can hear her tears and moans.
I can hear my baby crying.
I can hear her tears and moans.
Oh, I remember December when they told her that her daddy going to go.
(break)
She didn't cry when she left me
In fact I think she kind of smiled
She didn't cry when she left me
In fact I think she kind of smiled
And if my dear cried a tear it was a tear of a crocodile.
Well I'm feeling kind of pointless like a train up off the tracks.
I'm feeling kind of pointless, like a train up off the tracks
You know that girl steps over me like she steps over cigarette butts on the sidewalk crack.
Lordy that's a fact.
(break)
Now whatever you wants meant babe, now you mean nothing at all. Oh whatever you once meant babe, now you mean nothing at all.
One day you'll close your eyes to see I'm not a loser I'm just stuck inside the fall.
7. WORKS IN REVERSE
My old friend a blank white page.
You leave me feeling twice my age.
Pass the bastions cast in ashes of Anglo-Saxons with crooked passions and meager rations all the rage.
woohoo, ooohooo.
woohoo, ooohooo
woohoo, ooohooo.
woohoo, ooohooo
Mother, mother Melody
You gave me sight when I could not see.
Forever Philharmonic, supersonic, Hooked on Phonics. Gave me sight, made me believe.
woohoo, ooohooo.
woohoo, ooohooo
woohoo, ooohooo.
woohoo, ooohooo
One who cast away my love
Well I couldn't thank you enough.
You set in motion, fatal potion, overdose causes comatose.
Drink it once, never twice the same.
woohoo, ooohooo.
woohoo, ooohooo
woohoo, ooohooo.
woohoo, ooohooo
woohoo, ooohooo.
woohoo, ooohooo
woohoo, ooohooo.
woohoo, ooohooo
woohoo, ooohooo.
woohoo, ooohooo
woohoo, ooohooo.
woohoo, ooohooo
8. ALMOST
I almost flicked my ash
in my glass of whiskey.
Almost.
I almost flicked my ash
in my glass of whiskey.
Almost.
How much time can I pass
being drunk off my ass?
Almost.
I almost got the girl.
Almost got the girl.
Almost.
I almost got the girl.
Almost got the girl.
Almost.
Oh I hit all her notes.
I buttered her toast.
Almost.
(break)
I almost went to church.
I almost went to church
Almost.
I almost went to church.
I almost went to church
Almost.
Almost counts for nothing
Nothing that was something
Almost.
I almost flicked my ash
in my glass of whiskey.
Almost.
I almost flicked my ash
in my glass of whiskey.
Almost.
How much time can I pass
Being drunk off my ass?
Almost.
9. THE GOOD LIFE
My elders, my dog, and my car are all aging.
This town is changing in the blink of an eye.
Things I used to know are rearranging themselves. I don't know why.
I wish I still went to church and believed it. Cause the people there are struggling by.
Sunday morning makes the whole week easier by looking up at the sky.
It's the good life
full of hard times.
Part time and full endeavors.
And you can make it
if you just try
and if you're clever.
It's the good life
full of hard times.
Sunshine and stormy weather.
And you can make it
if you just try
and if you're clever.
(break)
I walk to the harbor just for the bar now.
I don't go there to sit on the rocks.
I use to watch the ships roll in and I'd count the men coming on to the docks.
I confess depression led me to drinking.
I started thinking on what I've got.
I'm not sad about what I had and if I died today I'd say I died with a lot.
It's the good life
full of hard times.
Part time and full endeavors.
And you can make it
if you just try
and if you're clever.
It's the good life
full of hard times.
Sunshine and stormy weather.
And you can make it
if you just try
and if you're clever.
10. HONEY HAIR
She's like walking on quicksand.
Left jab, then a right hand punch.
Bet all you have then
your shit out of luck.
Blue eyes. Sunset.
Way she moves
it is much too much.
Hot on the eyes
than cold to the touch.
Give all you have
and then it's just never enough.
Here I am
fumbling around for a cigarette. Thinking that she's not innocent.
But heaven sent her.
Honey Hair
dancing around in her underwear. Painting the town with 'I don't care.'
He's not here.
Oh, Honey Hair.
Friday. Drinking.
She won't say what she's thinking now.
She don't smoke pot, but she still takes a puff.
Pretty. Lady.
Father made a career of the Navy now
you don't know love,
you only knows lust.
Girl, loving and leaving ain't treason
if you don't have to trust.
Here I am
fumbling around for a cigarette. Thinking that she's not innocent.
But heaven sent her.
Honey Hair
dancing around in her underwear. Painting the town with 'I don't care.'
He's not here.
Oh, Honey Hair.
Here I am
fumbling around for a cigarette. Thinking that she's not innocent.
But heaven sent her.
Heaven sent Honey Hair.
Honey Hair
dancing around in her underwear. Painting the town with 'I don't care.'
He's not here.
Oh, Honey Hair.
11. ALEXANDRIA
I was driving like I was on the run.
Straight through the night
into the morning sun.
And when I got to where I ended up,
I fell on my knees.
Well I sat down
and I penned a song.
It wasn't good but didn't take too long
And when I finished up
I sang it for the fallen leaves.
Alexandria.
Didn't know what I wanted
till I found you.
Wanna keep my arms around you,
to the late late morning,
early afternoon.
Alexandria,
you think I can't understand you?
You think you burdened me
with your tales so tried and true.
So tried and true.
Home didn't feel like a home no more.
So I came knocking upon your door.
Didn't know what I was looking for, but I'm sure it's found.
Love was pure, right from the roof.
My faith was weak, it needed proof.
To tell the truth, it was all a lie
till you came around.
Alexandria.
Didn't know what I wanted
till I found you.
Wanna keep my arms around you,
to the late late morning,
early afternoon.
Alexandria,
you think I can't understand you?
You think you burdened me
with your tales so tried and true.
So tried and true.
(break)
I walked right on out that door.
I'm sitting here,
and now I'm wanting more.
When I try to do up the score
I couldn't do the math.
It happened quick.
And it ended fast.
If I'd only had an hourglass.
I'd make the most of the moments
I knew would never last.
Alexandria.
Didn't know what I wanted
till I found you.
Wanna keep my arms around you,
to the late late morning,
early afternoon.
Alexandria,
Think I can't understand you?
You think you burdened me
with your tales so tried and true.
So tried and
Tales so tried and true.
So tried and
Tales so tried and true.
So tried and true.
