Wishful Thinking EP - Stream the album on YouTube.
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Written & Produced By Cranston Dean
copyright 2013
"TRACK LIST"
1. SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE
2. EXIT 117
3. WISHFUL THINKING
4. BATTLE HYMN
5. GOOD WOMAN'S HEART
Cranston Dean- Acoustic Guitar & Vox
Featuring Chris Clark - Mandolin / Lapsteel
Produced by Jaime Tennant
Recorded in Atlantic Highlands, NJ
Mastered by Mark Trewella at Full Circle Mastering in Philadelphia, PA
Album Art by Angel D. Ramos
Lyrics
1. SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE
Something's gotta give
Something's gotta rise
Not making up a story
Not pushing out alibis.
Something's gotta give
Something's gotta rise
I don't do it for the glory
I'm just trying to get by.
Oh my Holy Ghost
Just help me get by
Something's gotta give
Something's gotta rise
Pray my Mama don't die
from working that nine-to-five.
Something's gotta give
I can see it in her eyes
She's going crazy just to keep
her baby from hell's tide.
Oh my Holy Ghost
Help me out this time.
(talking...)
Look at income inequality.
What's your problem with this market?
There is no exit strategy.
We have a completely phony economy.
Look at the numbers and it's growing.
You know, the rich will come back strong, and the middle class haven't.
Flawed
and the macroeconomic imbalances underlying our economy...
Something you said for you something you've had for years bothered me...interest rates...
The economists who decides such things, say the recession ended.
Their cost of living is going up what the CPI says. Their cost of living is going up and they're hurting, that's why people in this country are very upset.
(talking ends)
Something's gotta give
Something's Gotta change
I've been searching for the truth
on the news loop, it's all the same.
Something's gotta give
Something's gotta pull.
I'm going downtown baby
I'm around, how about you?
Oh my Holy Ghost
Help me get through
Something's gotta give
Something's gotta give
Something's gotta give
Something's gotta give
Something's gotta give
Something something something
something something.
Something's gotta give
2. EXIT 117
Going out on a Friday night
I'll be up till the morning light
I'm going to drink till my wrongs
go right, so fill my cup.
Stepping out to have a smoke
I heard a voice, somebody spoke
Pass the joint I took a toke
and I got up
Then some girl at the party
Asks me what exit I'm from off the parkway
And I reply with a smile
The whole damn block must have heard me screaming "there's such a thing as central New Jersey"
And I with pride.
I got my ticket in my hand
I'm going back to the motherland
So notify the high command
The time is up
Going back I was born
I miss the way before the storm
Don't try to say you weren't warned
Just give up
Said it could heal any heartache
Going to the exit where you're
from off the parkway
And I'm going to mine.
Whole damn world must have heard me screamin "there's such thing as central New Jersey"
and I, oh I filled up with pride. Filled up with pride.
3. WISHFUL THINKING
Wish I had the faith to
stand by my convictions
Wish I had the strength
to beat all my addictions
Wish I had the mind
to write my new edition.
I wish I had the facts so I could settle my suspicions.
I wish that all the time I had to spend with family and friends never had to end.
Until meet again.
Here's a toast to the ones you love the most
dry your tears and tell your jokes,
Drink your beers and bum your smokes.
What a gas we all drank and we all laughed
and when you evening came to pass and in the morning we awoke.
We got pork roll, egg and cheese on a hard roll.
I wish I had the homestead where my family first started.
It's in someone else's hands now
and that leaves me broken hearted.
I wish I wasn't taught
about honor and tradition
for if I'd never known the words
I wouldn't notice they went missing.
I wish upon my country better days. Marriage for the gays.
No unemployment raise.
Legal Mary Jane.
Here's a toast to the land
that we call home.
Desert sands and frozen snows.
City lights and mountain smokes
Raise a glass to your ancestors passed
to every hero that you've had
and all your neighbors down the road.
I know that I've been drinking
and it might be wishful thinking
we can save this ship from sinking if we try
Cause we won't die while we're alive.
I had a story that wasn't filled with contradictions
Wish I had a girlfriend who was into new positions
Wish I smoked a cigarette without cancerous emissions
but I'm glad I've got friends like these.
4. BATTLE HYMN
I was taught when you grow up
You can be just what you want
I don't know if my folks were hopeful
or if they were lying.
I went to school, didn't graduate.
Now what jobs can I take?
I'll be in debt to the IRS
till the day before I die.
Glory Hallelujah
Glory Hallelujah
It all comes crumbling down.
I have a right side it fights with my left side so I guess it's no surprise but I get nothing done.
Look at our nation Congress calls it progress but the only thing that stalls us is that they never get along
Glory Hallelujah
Glory Hallelujah
It all comes crumbling down.
War has its expenses
War is plain expensive.
It's like we're swinging for the fences we should simply lay a bunt.
We don't build our cars here
We don't take care of ours here
Tell me who the fuck's in charge here?
Could we bring them to the front?
Glory Hallelujah
Glory Hallelujah
It all comes crumbling down
down down down down down
down down down down down
down down down down down down
5. GOOD WOMAN'S HEART
(talking)
Been a long time.
Yes ma'am. Alot of water under the bridge.
(talking ends)
I've been moving much too slow.
Since my baby let me go.
I lost the one love that I will ever know
Since my baby let me go.
I've been burning out way too fast.
Every night's just like the last.
I've been running circles,
crunching numbers, faking facts
since I saw her last.
I missed a good woman's heart.
I missed a good woman's arms.
I love a good love,
but the way they start.
I missed a good woman's heart.
I miss being on the road.
I miss all the inside jokes.
I miss sleeping in the van
before the show.
I miss being on the road.
I miss a good woman's heart.
I miss a good woman's arms.
I love a good love, but mine just fall apart.
I miss a good woman's heart.
Oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh oh
I'm proud of the friends I keep.
I'm proud of the ends I seek.
I love my hometown and my neighbors down the street,
cause I'm proud of the friends I keep.
I missed a good woman's heart.
I miss a good woman's arms.
She wants a good love,
but I can't play the part.
I miss a good woman's heart.
I miss a good woman's heart.
I miss a good woman's heart.
(talking)
What is it you want Mary?
What do you want?
You want the Moon?
Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it.
(talking ends)
