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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

POWER Tom Cochrane

Look...up on the building, See a Silhouette Crowd looks hungry, Because he ain't jumped yet. Man up on the tower, Looks big up there He's got something extra, I wonder if he's scared.

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

LOVE UNDER FIRE Tom Cochrane

sleeve Deep in the heart of this working land They say the streets are paved with gold And ever man had his mission Then after all the stories are told The only thing I've got to hold Our love is

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

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

OCEAN BLUES (EMOTION BLUE) Tom Cochrane

Ask any stranger Out on the boulevard Who is alone They'll say it's me In any country This road leads everywhere A road that leads down to the sea CHORUS Colour me blue When the lights are

THE SECRET IS TO KNOW WHEN TO STOP Tom Cochrane

The secret is to know when to stop The secret is to know when to stop The secret is to know when to stop ...Remembering Do you remember the night That we ran out Out on english bay?

ASHES TO DIAMONDS Tom Cochrane

I've seen enough The next time you better stay loose There's plenty of government action in the neighborhood It's a general uprisin' See the men in gold The P.M.'

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

BIGGER MAN Tom Cochrane

heels back in I'm gonna let you be the bigger man tonight I'm gonna let you be the bigger man tonight I'm gonna let you be the bigger man tonight Oh you got nothing to prove to me You say the deck is

GOOD TIMES Tom Cochrane

small The good times we had Wouldn't worry about tomorrow 'Cause tonight was all we had The good times we knew I'd tell you about them baby But you were there, you were with me, too The heart is

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

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

WORK OUT Tom Cochrane

It'll work out Yes it's alright, anyhow Work out, Work out 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

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

HEARTBREAK GIRL Tom Cochrane

you're just like me when you hurt Do the things you've got to do All those things that come to you When you hold your head all up and and above And the haze falls away like defenses fall Write a

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

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

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

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

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

BREAKING CURFEW Tom Cochrane

Walk out Through the rain Where the sound of your own footsteps Speak of Change When we take our refuge In a higher place Somewhere no one knows We'll meet it face to face CHORUS: Breaking

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

I WONDER Tom Cochrane

shape you wanna make it And I wonder what it's like To be the first in space I wonder what it's like To be inside your head Behind your face I wonder what it's like believing Everything I say is

WILL OF THE GUN Tom Cochrane

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 Why does history repeat itself And a

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!

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

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

PIECE OF YOUR SOUL Tom Cochrane

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 secrets unfold And we're like a

ONE WAY OUT Tom Cochrane

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 love isn't there And there is