NOT SO FAR AWAY Tom Cochrane

distant shore Don't know what they're having planned You might feel you're a million miles In nothing you can be sure You might feel you don't have a friend When the signal it comes in clear You're not

All The Kings Men Tom Cochrane

your private war let the blood you might see rain down on me you don't have to fight no more there's nothing you can say there's nothing you can send there's nothing that can change the facts not

CALLING AMERICA Tom Cochrane

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 said he was with him There we were far

MAKE MYSELF COMPLETE Tom Cochrane

I am not the original one Working man's son Nine to five and I'm barely alive When the day is done Want to laugh a bit Want to cry a bit Want to make myself complete Want to break you up Want

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

WILL OF THE GUN Tom Cochrane

repeat itself And a man keep killing a man CHORUS If i believe like you believe Then I guess we can be one But when it comes down to the crossfire babe It's down to the will off the gun I get so

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

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

WASHED AWAY Tom Cochrane

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 a river Soon leaves us all behind Like a summer rain It all gets washed away

BREAKING CURFEW Tom Cochrane

a higher place Somewhere no one knows We'll meet it face to face CHORUS: Breaking the curfew Walking where we want to Dodging the big lights up on the wall Stand tall Stand up Don't slip away

WINNER TAKE ALL Tom Cochrane

Time is up I don't know where you are Sands run down, I can't see that far Are you shock straight back into another star Where your mouth it moves, but the words don't come You don't give it another

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

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

BOY INSIDE THE MAN Tom Cochrane

So long so long so long he's been away So long so long so long he's back again When I turned seventeen We had passion, we had dreams Thought the love we were fighting for Was something holy, something

Hold Tight Tom Cochrane

I can't sleep The world's closing in I reach for someone You're not there We say things Sometimes we never mean Who's to say what is and is not fair Turn out the light CHORUS: Hold tight!

HANG ON TO YOUR RESISTANCE Tom Cochrane

I looked up from the room A symphony of breezes caught me Drifting around my tomb Watching to see if they knew me With my faceless intruders pride And even with those illusions, well I Could not

LUNATIC FRINGE Tom Cochrane

hear you coming We know what you're after We're wise to you this time We won't let you kill the laughter Lunatic Fringe In the twilight's last gleaming This is open season But you won't get too far

ONE MORE TIME (SOME OLD HABITS) Tom Cochrane

Anytime you could come to me In the night When you thought No one should have known With your hard luck little girl look And the trouble that you'd own You'd come like the wind When the night got so

GOOD MAN FEELING BAD Tom Cochrane

can't sleep I'm so vain I'm sometimes so weak I didn't mean to hurt you Sometimes I just don't think enough I'm a sane man gripped by my duty Something lately has really gotten to me I tell myself

VICTORY DAY Tom Cochrane

One fine day she'll be walking outside She'll turn to see what is true Won't draw no curtains, be hiding no way On that Victory Day She's stuck it out, she's hung in tough She won't be running away

HEARTBREAK GIRL Tom Cochrane

She says no one understands No one sees that point of view Less you force them to Less you coerce them to Less you break their arm then it's not real It's so hard to communicate So hard to relate

MAD MAD WORLD Tom Cochrane

Mad mad world... shake your hands And say good luck..it's a Mad mad world..I can not believe this stuff. . .it's a Mad mad world...getting madder every day....

SINKING LIKE A SUNSET Tom Cochrane

prince and cinderella The outlaws the hustlers and the heroes They never seem to fall It doesn't matter it doesn't matter what The outcome of the story is Because in real life I try to tell her It's not

Didn't I Lorraine Tom Cochrane

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 To believing By your leaving Lover away

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

JUST THE WAY IT GOES Tom Cochrane

But you go on searching for that Magic feeling and hope That is soon comes through But you believe what you Want to believe What your mind tells you is true And you know it's Not the way it is baby

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

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

PAPER TIGERS Tom Cochrane

Keep your powder dry and warm Thru the coming darkest storm All the fear that's sent your way Thru your eyes you might wash away When you can Still your lantern's strong and bright Even thru the

THE SECRET IS TO KNOW WHEN TO STOP Tom Cochrane

It started to rain My coat your dress got wet We laughed til we almost cried Your spirit was so contagious Our timing was really bad You were so outrageous How could we hold back?

WHITE HOT Tom Cochrane

With no rations or canteen For selling faulty riffles To the thieves in tanzania Adventures and misfortune Nothing wagered, nothing gained I have wandered through the desert Found the ocean not

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

I WISH THAT I COULD SEE YOU NOW Tom Cochrane

I wish that I had said things That I had wanted Or at least removed the falsehood Of my pride But you stood so free and innocent That i could not face you Oh, I wish that I Could see you now

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

FLOWERS IN THE CONCRETE Tom Cochrane

for a little fame This ain't no oliver twist - no mister brownlow here She gathers enough spare change to get Something to eat She takes emeralds and ecstasy on a journey that's Miles and miles away

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

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

WILLIE DIXON SAID Tom Cochrane

Dialect comes so slick that you can't predict the news Water it down like butternut blues Black smoke's lightening comin' up the trees Wrap it up nice put a bow round it please Telly myself again and

RAGGED ASS ROAD Tom Cochrane

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 Baby don't you hold out too long they might not

I WISH YOU WELL Tom Cochrane

I'm gonna check my scars at home Gonna cash my chips and roam Gonna walk before I fade to black I'm gonna write a new resume I'm gonna write you off the page I'm gonna take what we might take away

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

PIECE OF YOUR SOUL Tom Cochrane

Take away all my blues Fill me with good news When I'm used and torn You get me thru Nothing could thrill me more than When you're standin' there like before Stripped clear of defenses While your

I WONDER Tom Cochrane

Change your eyes, 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

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

NAPOLEON SHEDS HIS SKIN Tom Cochrane

Or when to say die Pick the bones, get a tan Or wander Underground She would not have left him anyway Wait by the sea, wait in the sun As if the time Stood still Did he get involved In whichever

BIG LEAGUE Tom Cochrane

When he was a kid, he'd be up at five Take shots till eight, make the thing drive Out after school, back on ice That was his life, he was gonna play in the Big League The Big League Not many ways

Dreamer's Dream Tom Cochrane

to set free You'd be the one there to force my hand To make a stand Give me that sweet release Those are the dreams that a Dreamer Dreams Those are the dreams That he dreams That he dreams Fill you up so

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

Beacon Hill Tom Cochrane

hill I know it's up there burning still Shout out, shout out I know you could melt these hearts And where's the face we all remember Come out, come out And put lightening in these veins Throw away

GET BACK UP Tom Cochrane

back up I thought I heard you laughing I thought I heard you scream I thought I heard some wailing Like lovers in heat I thought maybe we'd been Somewhere that we've never seen Still you lie so