IRON IN THE SOUL Tom Cochrane

Get a little iron in the soul Don't let yourself be sold Get a little iron in the soul And let your money ride Looking for the man that she calls little Caesar He makes it home on weekends Just so

JUST THE WAY IT GOES Tom Cochrane

Time to be what you Want to be And all the time in between When loneliness calls Do your thoughts turn back to me?

EMOTIONAL TRUTH Tom Cochrane

Let the woman have her peace Let her see the beat Around the world for emotional truth Waited out here for so long Wanna let love liberate you Don't you need emotional truth I don't want to fake

WORK OUT Tom Cochrane

Walking on glass Walking on stone When you're walking Sometimes walking alone Put your heart out And reach for the top Keep moving, don't ever stop Written on the wind Written on the sand Every

WINDY NIGHT IN FALL Tom Cochrane

She says think you're the only one who's had it rough And the sky over you is the only one That's not bright enough Well some habits are hard to kick Some people in life are hard to lick They haunt

SIGHTS ON YOU Tom Cochrane

He's on the front line, He's set for the kill It's happening then, And it's happening still Dog eat dog, You've got to change it Battle lines there, Of a thousand odd years The tracks are there of

PIECE OF YOUR SOUL Tom Cochrane

there like before Stripped clear of defenses While your secrets unfold And we're like a river you and I Like a river we're gonna run I can depend on this Handle to hold You give a piece of your soul

SONS BEAT DOWN Tom Cochrane

Hundred and one in the shade tonight All that time in the wilds of youth You might find it won't desert you We're gonna shake your soul tonight Some may say let's wait and see Some may find it's

BEST WASTE OF TIME Tom Cochrane

Sit around and curse Apocalypse in verse Gets so you can't recognize the gentlemen from the jerks Verbal masturbation prime time on the air Outside there's another rights parade Somebody hands you

RAGGED ASS ROAD Tom Cochrane

Moving out, can you see that shine Feel the change as you roll on down the line Where the shore fires burn out on a new frontier Where the past don't haunt you and there's Nothing else to fear

WASHED AWAY Tom Cochrane

We live out here in the desert Where time stands still In the face of our foolish pride We trade our love for ambition And tell each other We'll get it all back in time But time moves on like

LOVE UNDER FIRE Tom Cochrane

She got the heart She got the heart of the working man It's not hard to understand She got the love She got the love of the working man She wears it high upon her sleeve Deep in the heart of this

BIG LEAGUE Tom Cochrane

out of this cold northern town You work in the mill and get laid in the ground If you're gonna jump it will be with the game Real fast and tough is the only clear lane to the Big League My boy's

NORTHERN FRONTIER Tom Cochrane

On a muggy night in the north end in july A kid named Joseph Beeper Spence Took a shotgun blast to the back And died...

REVELATIONS: VISIONS IN A DREAM Tom Cochrane

The innocent and the poor They've got nothing to hide But the rich recite in numbers Their fear resounds in side Children starve by the millions The false of the lame Of the foolish few who knew

HUMAN RACE Tom Cochrane

I can see it on the road ahead Running hard i'm here But I could be there instead Many houses with the lights on Silhouettes behind the shades Beside fires I'm sure that I saw you in one I loved

NAPOLEON SHEDS HIS SKIN Tom Cochrane

The streets are covered in chalk The shops are boarded up The bodies are carried back down from the square He begins to wonder If it always was this hot Or is it just the clothes That he now

When I'm With You Tom Cochrane

Come sit by the fireside With me baby Melt into the dawn With me girl Let yourself flow Like a river to the sea Together we'll grow Just like a willow tree You're much older than the others In just so

WHITE HOT Tom Cochrane

Waiting by the shoreline In somalia for your reply I need you to come see me That's no lie The guns are getting closer The sweat pours like dew That fell from the trees in tripoli In the spring

Didn't I Lorraine Tom Cochrane

Waiting in silence You had to go 'Cause just like a baby You had to know And to think that by leaving We would see more clear To undo the pattern of doubt and fear, Drifting apart It has brought us nearer

FLOWERS IN THE CONCRETE Tom Cochrane

Tilting at windmills on a downtown street O the big grey landscape has lost its sheep She wears a tight smile as she's walking the beat Looking for a little fame This ain't no oliver twist - no mister

VACATION (IN MY MIND) Tom Cochrane

Taking a vacation Don't know what I'll find Taking a vacation in my mind Taking a vacation Don't know what I'm gonna find there Stuck some clothes in a sack I'm slipping out the back door

Another Page Tom Cochrane

I sit by my castles In the back of my chair Gazing into the dawn I blackmailed my teachers For not living dispair When there was really Not much going on I learnt how to cry at a very young

I WISH YOU WELL Tom Cochrane

And you will find a brighter day And in another year The pain will disappear and I Will look back on this life as if it were a scene In a film somebody made for you and me I wish you well She wants

LASTING SONG Tom Cochrane

Won't be the first time you sit alone Won't be the first time you wait by the phone Won't be the last time you drift away To some place we were such a long time ago We would move like ghosts in the

ASHES TO DIAMONDS Tom Cochrane

I've seen enough The next time you better stay loose There's plenty of government action in the neighborhood It's a general uprisin' See the men in gold The P.M.'

EVERYTHING COMES AROUND Tom Cochrane

make our big plans And you might come to realize What you haven't missed yet When everyone's searching For fortune and fame It's been right in front of you All of the time Everything comes

WEST COAST SAGA Tom Cochrane

I walked by the west Canadian shore Where I was born beneath the sky, Staggered by and by, I cried, Realizing I was once blind I felt the wind blow in from the sea, And it was blowing in on me

OCEAN BLUES (EMOTION BLUE) Tom Cochrane

Ask any stranger Out on the boulevard Who is alone They'll say it's me In any country This road leads everywhere A road that leads down to the sea CHORUS Colour me blue When the lights are

WILDEST DREAMS Tom Cochrane

You talks as if in riddles You talk as if in rhymes Down in the lion's lair Stroke yourself to feel so fine And what are you afraid of Afraid to get so touched When you begin to feel Is it way

WINNER TAKE ALL Tom Cochrane

thought Little round peg in a big square slot Strangest son in a big top coat If you go that far then that's all she wrote Win or lose you've got the Berlin blues Your back's to the wall Winner

Life Is A Highway Tom Cochrane

Life Is A Highway Tom Cochrane Life's like a road that you travel on When there's one day here and the next day gone Sometimes you bend, sometimes you stand Sometimes you turn your back to the

LOOK OUT AGAIN Tom Cochrane

I was at your port of call One more flower upon the wall You were talkin' to my friend Bout your new place east of Number 10 Say Look out again You don't know what you do to me Oh I'm not to blame

ONE WAY OUT Tom Cochrane

Stand too close I can feel her pull me in All the time here waiting Has been wasted in the wind Adjusted to your way And the corner of your stare You can only stand so close to it Before you see

RIVER OF STONE Tom Cochrane

We turned and stared out On the fields where we once layed Looked back on them for one last time Before the storm would break You cannot stand in the line of fire I still can hear you say We won't

LUNATIC FRINGE Tom Cochrane

Lunatic Fringe I know you're out there You're in hiding And you hold your meetings We can hear you coming We know what you're after We're wise to you this time We won't let you kill the laughter

I WONDER Tom Cochrane

, your shoes, your hair Be an island, I don't care Not depending on what others think Change your plans, your style, your flair I'd know you anywhere Not depending on what others think Insist the

ONE MORE TIME (SOME OLD HABITS) Tom Cochrane

Another place in another time I'd know that face anywhere Without a trace and without a sign Anytime you could come to me In the night When you thought No one should have known With your hard

SONG BEFORE I LEAVE Tom Cochrane

Just a song before I leave A few words to believe in A touch we'll both remember in time Like a warm fire in December They'll remind us who is real And who is just passing by A small taste of what

BOY INSIDE THE MAN Tom Cochrane

more When I turned twenty-one we were outside on the run When I walked out with my girl We went halfway around the world CHORUS I dreamed I saw her standing there Running for the boy inside the

CITIZEN CAIN Tom Cochrane

can lead a horse to water But you cannot make him drink You can own a man's whole work for life But you cannot make him think what you want You can tell them all a thousand lies But you don't own the

GET BACK UP Tom Cochrane

the things you use I put you in the tub babe With five big pounds of ice If you don't get back up I don't know what I'll do I've walked around the room Here nearly 37 Times Can you hear me now

GOOD TIMES Tom Cochrane

Put the van tape on Bay at the moon Rub each other down so good Forget about the tune that's playing Joan went east And she went west I stayed right here in the middle That's where I liked it

DIFFERENT DRUMMER Tom Cochrane

She moves like nobody moves Like a cat on a hot tin roof She sees what nobody sees Talks sense, never gives up easy She speaks in what she does When she speaks she says so much All the world's

CALLING AMERICA Tom Cochrane

I dreamt I was a refugee Who lived outside of town My family in a barria shack Battered and run down We had a friend from America Helped out, we took him in Like my brother he disappeared They

CHARLIE WAS A DANCER Tom Cochrane

Charlie was a dancer At ten years old, Charlie was a dancer In his dreams He loved to watch old movies With his mother there, He loved to watch old movies With Fred Astaire Dance, Charlie

MESSAGE (RISE UP AGAIN) Tom Cochrane

The message is faint, but it's coming in clear Meet by the lake far away from here The place we'd meet, way back when Hearts as one Can you show me how it feels again Where the moon rises up again

THIS IS THE WORLD Tom Cochrane

Make you sometimes want to fly away Let the critics be damned True colours will always stand It's no disgrace, lets cut to the chase, Hey, hey, hey, hey This is the one, let's not waste it Come

Beacon Hill Tom Cochrane

Look back, (shout out, shout it) There's someone close behind It's a face that I remember (Come out, come out) In the air, there's a feeling that I know Speaks to me of better times Come out

Dreamer's Dream Tom Cochrane

If I was a sailor man If I was lost at sea I'd see your light shining there Off the rocks, off the sand That light would be all that I'd see And if I was the king of the world With all the world to set