JUST THE WAY IT GOES Tom Cochrane

Not the way it is It's just the way it goes And your heart is at the wheel baby It knows when to steel But never when to let go And you know It's just the way it goes It gets harder As the nights

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

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

JUST SCREAM Tom Cochrane

to someone who wants to hear When the silence starts to haunt you Just scream let the voices out, lord Just scream Let the voices out Someone calls me up And says that you want out Cause you

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

MAD MAD WORLD Tom Cochrane

order is on its way" Well pass the popcorn please You don't mean to tell me No one here is going to get hurt When there's folks at home who Eat dog food they can't afford a shirt Sure find out real

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CRAWL Tom Cochrane

take a ride from this Running from a holy host of dark angels Out from her beaten past Takes a bus down from nowhere to somewhere Where love was made to last Don't know where this might lead But the

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

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

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

THE UNTOUCHABLE ONE Tom Cochrane

See her by the corner Then she walks on by Heads turn to meet her Steely eyed She's her own girl Her own design She holds her head high Hides her scars just fine CHORUS She makes it work

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One shot wonder kid Waiting for the man that did Shoot at her without any reason Please me don't tease me Disco's out of season The mad girl cries from the other side Hey, baby!

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

BRAVE AND CRAZY Tom Cochrane

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 be no puppet here none of your back room deals Modern love was invented by the

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

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

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

CALLING AMERICA Tom Cochrane

rocks While celebration shook the air We turned to hear some shots There's ones that have been here far too long We think they've lost the plot Here I go again Leaving things out while I'm leaving

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ART OF LISTENING Tom Cochrane

often show that side I can be selfish but I can be a saint sometimes You make me feel like I'm bigger than who I am I can see everything but mostly I'm blind I'm a sinner but sometimes I shine I'm just

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

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

HEARTBREAK GIRL Tom Cochrane

can be Who I've got to be Got to see, got to be real Where I'm calling from They can't desert you Where you're calling from They like to eat you but they can't hurt you Don't you know you're just

WORK OUT Tom Cochrane

woman, every man Engines started Ready to roll Broken hearted Let it go It's o.k.

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