RIVER OF STONE Tom Cochrane

We turned and stared out On the fields where we once layed Looked back on them for one last time Before the storm would break You cannot stand in the line of fire I still can hear you say We won't

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

thin Knocked me down and I got back up I got myself back in the race again Knock me down, and I'll get back up And I'll get myself Back in the race again Race through the shadows Race against stone

BOY INSIDE THE MAN Tom Cochrane

understand CHORUS The boy inside the man The boy inside the man So long so long so long You been away So long so long so long You're back again Sister cool this face As if it's carved in stone

ART OF LISTENING Tom Cochrane

hear the rising distant thunder Don't be hiding I'm a coward but a hero in a good fight I can be confused but watch if I know I'm right Sometimes I can get so close, But sometimes I'm right out of

BEST WASTE OF TIME Tom Cochrane

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 isms of

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

BRAVE AND CRAZY Tom Cochrane

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 be no puppet here none of

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

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

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

VICTORY DAY Tom Cochrane

that Victory Day She's stuck it out, she's hung in tough She won't be running away He says it will change, but each time it does It starts up all over again He wants the thunder, the crashing of

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

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.'

WILLIE DIXON SAID Tom Cochrane

you can't predict the 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

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

GOOD NEWS Tom Cochrane

Standing in the airport Longing to go home You-ooh-who You You never sing the blues You You always bring good news I wanna be your lover And I wanna be your friend It seems that that for the price of

EVERYTHING COMES AROUND Tom Cochrane

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 front of

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

I WONDER Tom Cochrane

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 true Beyond a shadow of

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

RAGGED ASS ROAD Tom Cochrane

Nothing else to fear Baby don't you hold out too long they might not let you be (CHORUS) Movin' out feel the wind in your hair Where the sun shines at night, I can take you there To the land of

WEST COAST SAGA Tom Cochrane

Alone I walked while the mountains talked Telling me I must be free I have been relieved, My waters shall run free Take me down to the sea ---When I die By the shores Of my fathers I will lie

FRIENDLY ADVICE Tom Cochrane

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 come such a long long way I don't give a damn baby what they say Your mind is full of

THE LOADING Tom Cochrane

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 Gamble of

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

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

MAKE MYSELF COMPLETE Tom Cochrane

Want to cry a bit Want to make myself complete Want to break you up Want to make you up Want to wail into the sheets Want to make myself complete Want to make mine Take you down to the far side of

NAPOLEON SHEDS HIS SKIN Tom Cochrane

Na...poleon Sheds his skin Na...poleon Sheds his skin Na...poleon Sheds his skin I've got to get out of here Can she save me I've got to get out of here Can she save me I've got to get out

Young Thing, Wild Dreams (Rock Me) Tom Cochrane

back Young thing, young thing When they lock you inside Slip out the back Come on and move me Move me, move me Let your spirit ring Rock me 'Til I can't think Move me, move me With all of

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

CITIZEN CAIN Tom Cochrane

yourself a legend But if you were you wouldn't be that proud CHORUS Citizen cain, citizen cain Your money don't buy you love Citizen cain, citizen cain I don't know what you could be thinking of

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

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

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

Shake Monster Tom Cochrane

all lit up She gave the command I shook Shake, shake, shake, shake it "How's your planet tonight big boy Are your jets engaged Are your missiles deployed I'm the shake monster I ain't made of

VACATION (IN MY MIND) Tom Cochrane

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 the range See the splendors of

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

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

POWER Tom Cochrane

People do some strange things, When they're all together They wouldn't even dream of, By themselves Come on, come on, come on, Turn it on Turn it on, come on Power...power Is he turning on us,

HEARTBREAK GIRL Tom Cochrane

She says no one understands No one sees that point of view Less you force them to Less you coerce them to Less you break their arm then it's not real It's so hard to communicate So hard to relate

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