PAPER TIGERS Tom Cochrane

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 darkest night All those paper

WILLIE DIXON SAID Tom Cochrane

of a woman's millenium hips Big bang wash clothes delirium Nostradamus' imposter and one last run CHORUS Haze falls away revealing dreams Like writing a letter to myself it seems Garage sales, paper

MAD MAD WORLD Tom Cochrane

I was standing with my paper there Minding my own news For everything that someone said Someone else had a different view I watched the whole thing there Unfold upon my tv screen "A new world

Paper Tigers Thrice

They preach to the choir, always in the permanent daylight They toss paper tigers from their perfect porcelain skylines, shatterproof spires Listen for the sound, as it all comes crashing down They

Paper Tigers Caesars

Every single one of us Looking for a city Hoping for a second shot Every single one of us Every single one of us I see the world light through a looking glass I see the people walk by walk by Like paper

Paper Tigers Jaci Velasquez

They are only paper tigers followin' me In the wild imagination of the make believe, oh. And there's a fighter, a survivor arisin' in me. I'm not afraid of paper tigers.

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

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 ...

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 The ...

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...

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 a r...

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 ma...

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 luck...

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 a ...

NOT SO FAR AWAY Tom Cochrane

You might feel you're a stranger Lost in a strange land You might be on a 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 ...

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, some...

CRAWL Tom Cochrane

She's got a place where she likes to hide from this Where someday somewhere somehow She's gonna take a ride from this Running from a holy host of dark angels Out from her beaten past Takes a bus d...

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 bes...

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. A...

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, wa...

CITIZEN CAIN Tom Cochrane

You 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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

FRIENDLY ADVICE Tom Cochrane

He says you want a brand new start She says that we've 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 o...

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 the...

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...

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 th...

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...

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 wo...

THE LOADING Tom Cochrane

(Hold the line) Linin' them up I remember they shoot 'em Never dared dream that they'd shoot anyone Now I'm a simple man tied on the vine Caught up in the times And fates on my right hand CHORUS ...

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! The sea...

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 ...

GOOD NEWS Tom Cochrane

You're always wearin' somethin' Upon your lapel So what if that ain't cool these days You wear it well The day that you left L.A. I felt so alone Standing in the airport Longing to go home You-ooh...

THIS IS THE WORLD Tom Cochrane

Hey, hey, hey, hey... 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...

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...

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? But you go on searching for that Magic feeling and hope That is soon comes throug...

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, com...

Whipping Boy Tom Cochrane

There is always some excuse For your air of sad abuse But when the table's turned Holding it out don't you ever learn CHORUS: I won't be a whipping boy I won't get down on my knees I won't be you...

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 Anyt...

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 ...

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 l...

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 ...

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 Sit by...

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 to m...

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, Dance...

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 mi...

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...

Young Thing, Wild Dreams (Rock Me) Tom Cochrane

Young thing, young thing Your blade is ripe Walk out with a fever In the night Young thing, young thing (With) your fist so fat Forget about that Come on out and move me Move me, move me Let you...

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...