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The Good Life

from Tried & True by Cranston Dean

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A song for anyone who grew up in small town America (specifically in shore towns). The hopeless feeling you get when you realize that time is moving by and everything in town is changing.

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My elders, my dog, and my car are all aging
This town is changing in the blink of an eye
The things I used to know are rearranging themselves
And I don’t know why

I wish I still went to church and believed it
Because the people there are struggling by
But Sunday morning makes the whole week easier
By looking up at the sky

It’s the good life full of hard times
Part-times and full endeavors
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
You can make it if you just try or if you’re

I walk to the harbor just for the bar now
I don’t go there to sit on the rocks
I used to watch the ships roll in and 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 bout what I have and if I died today
I’d say I died with a lot

It’s the good life full of hard times
Part-times and full endeavors
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
You can make it if you just try or if you're

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from Tried & True, released March 14, 2014
Written by:
Cranston Dean

Performed by:
Cranston Dean - Vox, Guitar, Piano
Riley Schiro - El. Guitar
Ike Gutierrez - Bass
Shane Luckenbaugh - Drums

Recorded at:

Eightsixteen Studios in Bayville, NJ by Patrick Noon

Mastered at:

West West Side Studios in New Windsor, NY by Alan Douches

Album art:

Amy Beth Addison

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If you’ve never heard Cranston Dean perform before, you’re robbing yourself of an amazing experience. Dean’s voice takes you back to a time when the singer/songwriter played the bars of Asbury during the heydays of The Circuit, and blew people’s minds with their lyrical poetry.
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