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

FRIENDLY ADVICE Tom Cochrane

time you'll see Exactly who your best friend was Your wise friends might say This is how we survive But I know in my own mind Can't you see it's a clever disguise This friendly advice We'd

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

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

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

WILLIE DIXON SAID Tom Cochrane

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 again and again Get out of this son - state of mind

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

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

SIGHTS ON YOU Tom Cochrane

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 a billion tears In

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

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?

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

EMOTIONAL TRUTH Tom Cochrane

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 it no more Comin' in

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

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

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

FLOWERS IN THE CONCRETE Tom Cochrane

change to get Something to eat She takes emeralds and ecstasy on a journey that's Miles and miles away from danger She just wants to be happy now CHORUS She's living on the street Flowers in

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

HEARTBREAK GIRL Tom Cochrane

you break their arm then it's not real It's so hard to communicate So hard to relate Unless you're someone else Unless you've not come to Dictate... to dictate to To tell 'em what to do I got my

WORK OUT Tom Cochrane

Johnny had a vision That's a fact Bound for glory Never turned back Think back to a time When you ran with the pack You can always look around But never go back The drums are on the hillside In

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

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

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

BOY INSIDE THE MAN Tom Cochrane

turned seventeen We had passion, we had dreams Thought the love we were fighting for Was something holy, something more When I turned twenty-one we were outside on the run When I walked out with my

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

EVERYTHING COMES AROUND Tom Cochrane

day man Everytime the devil laughs out loud When we 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

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

CITIZEN CAIN Tom Cochrane

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 world You can give her everything you want But you won't have my

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

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

Shake Monster Tom Cochrane

parameters To see that it was air tight All points clear looks like everything was all right Twelve o'clock high when I saw the big green light Shake Sh, sh, shake, shake Sh, sh, shake She had eyes in

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

Dreamer's Dream Tom Cochrane

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 free You'd be the one there to force my

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!

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

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

BEAUTIFUL DAY Tom Cochrane

tired of shades of grey and brown Gonna put this brim hat on Just to be cool Not as a rule as a hoot Cause you're born naked And you go out with a suit and if you're lucky CHORUS I see people in

All The Kings Men Tom Cochrane

Shut your eyes my darling there's nothing you can say the man in the moon won't fall on you he doesn't live there anyway you don't have to be a soldier to fight in your private war let the blood

MAKE MYSELF COMPLETE Tom Cochrane

If I get my way I'll be back there in no time Find a way to make love shine Like the sparks that fly from steel The band fights the night with the feel of their music I am not the original one Working

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?

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

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...

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

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

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

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

NAPOLEON SHEDS HIS SKIN Tom Cochrane

wears Napoleon sheds his skin In the summer when the sun is high He never knows when to quit When to stop...

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

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

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