MARIANNE AND LENNY Tom Cochrane

He sits by the bed Watches while she sleeps Her favourite book of poems lies Just beyond reach He walks to the doorway He turns before he goes She starts to stir as he Turns the light down low and

BRAVE AND CRAZY Tom Cochrane

He sat down with his guitar in a distant place When a man walks up and tells him "Buddy there are some things you cannot say" I'll be damned if you'll tell me What I can and cannot feel I won't

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

BEAUTIFUL DAY Tom Cochrane

Could it be the joke's on us 75 degrees and it's just the end of winter She says we've got all we need To go outside and sit right down and paint a picture One more day to be alive One more good

MESSAGE (RISE UP AGAIN) Tom Cochrane

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 Shining down on your hot white skin And

SONG BEFORE I LEAVE Tom Cochrane

once was The sweet smell of some bright springtime CHORUS And i'll remember Sunflowers on your breast And i'll remember That halston that you'd wear the best And i'll remember your fatal touch

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

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

When I'm With You Tom Cochrane

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 many ways And

WALKING THE FINE LINE Tom Cochrane

Lost my job in the darkest place, Going to get back up Clean my face, And take that longest ride I talked to the man with the busy pen Tired of being on the losing end I'm going to walk with pride

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

HUMAN RACE Tom Cochrane

Silhouettes behind the shades Beside fires I'm sure that I saw you in one I loved you but, That was way back then Now i'm alone outside I face the wind The rain washes me thin Knocked me down and

LASTING SONG Tom Cochrane

night Always looking for some cause to fight You'd always look for some cool James Dean type We tried to make it Like it was up on the screen You know, only fools believe What they cannot see And

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

JUST SCREAM Tom Cochrane

I'm so tired of all this crap That falls from you like rain Do you think that I'm that naive Or have you gone insane You can fly 6000 miles And think its no big deal And turn and come back in

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

EVERYTHING COMES AROUND Tom Cochrane

I've got a reason And it sounds like this Everything has it's season Let's bless it with a kiss babe I'll be there for you I'll be your rainy day man Everytime the devil laughs out loud When we

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?

CRACK THE SKY (BREAKAWAY) Tom Cochrane

There's a light by the window There's a shadow by the sea Where there's an angel or assassin I know she waits for me There's a time and place she say Where we can always meet Well that's alright

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

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

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

FRIENDLY ADVICE Tom Cochrane

grown apart I know a thing or two I speak from the heart Don't insult me with what your friends say After all that we've been through You'd owe that to me like I'd owe that to you So go your own way and

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

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...

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

I WONDER Tom Cochrane

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 world just isn't round It's any shape you wanna make it And

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....

WILLIE DIXON SAID Tom Cochrane

Junkyard pilot and his sidekick derelict Blactop halle bop microbus news do you get it?

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!

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

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

SINKING LIKE A SUNSET Tom Cochrane

She's thinking about the 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

HEARTBREAK GIRL Tom Cochrane

you but they can't hurt you Don't you know you're just like me when you hurt Heartbreak girl it's your choice Break outside, raise your voice Like the book of esther where she shows her colours And

CHARLIE WAS A DANCER Tom Cochrane

movies With Fred Astaire Dance, Charlie, Dance, You might never get the chance, Dance, Charlie, Dance, In your dreams Charlies fourteenth birthday Would have been today His mother sits alone and

GET BACK UP Tom Cochrane

God I hate your needles and Your dirty little vial of pills I guess I love the sweat you put me through I know I love your body Like I used to love your mind But now your soul's a slave To all

VICTORY DAY Tom Cochrane

She's got her reasons, she's got her pride Though she's beaten black and blue 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

NOT SO FAR AWAY Tom Cochrane

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 so far You're not so far away You might feel you're in danger And

NO REGRETS Tom Cochrane

Walking by the roadside I see my fate written upon it I'm checkin' out the back here Where my race is not run Might hear a thousand harps of heaven Rain down upon her I can't stand and watch While

HANG ON TO YOUR RESISTANCE Tom Cochrane

I was choking on attemtped laughter As 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

FLOWERS IN THE CONCRETE Tom Cochrane

a tight smile as she's walking the beat Looking 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

Whipping Boy Tom Cochrane

ground It's your turn Now I've turned it all around When I needed you You were nowhere to be found Where are you now Where are you now There is always the same excuse For this air of sad abuse And

LOVE UNDER FIRE Tom Cochrane

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 working land They say the streets are paved with gold And

WILL OF THE GUN Tom Cochrane

I find it hard to imagine This world without guns and wars When we have our own private battles Our own bashing and slamming of doors What makes us want to hurt each other Can you help me to understand

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

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

BIGGER MAN Tom Cochrane

I watched while you might say So long happy trails You can only wait so long Till the wind shakes your sails And you see the she says "bye bye" Then she turns and digs her heels back in I'm gonna

BIG LEAGUE Tom Cochrane

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 out of this cold northern town You work in the mill and

VACATION (IN MY MIND) Tom Cochrane

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 Sit by the range See the splendors of the Bronze Age I'll be wild eyed and