SONS BEAT DOWN Tom Cochrane

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 a mystery Blame it on love on the ones unsung We'll take care of the damage done Sons

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

EMOTIONAL TRUTH Tom Cochrane

Let the woman have her 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

All The Kings Men Tom Cochrane

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 you might see rain down

ONE MORE TIME (SOME OLD HABITS) Tom Cochrane

highway again One less chance and then one less mistake Some old habits are hard to break Like you If a heart could ever learn to say goodbye And not let time take the best away Still I Learn Look down

WILL OF THE GUN Tom Cochrane

want to hurt each other Can you help me to understand Why does history repeat itself And a man keep killing a man CHORUS If i believe like you believe Then I guess we can be one But when it comes down

HUMAN RACE Tom Cochrane

on Silhouettes behind the shades Beside fires I'm sure that I saw you in one I loved you but, That was way back then Now i'm alone outside I face the wind The rain washes me thin Knocked me down

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 down

HEARTBREAK GIRL Tom Cochrane

they can't hurt you Don't you know you're just like me when you hurt Heartbreak girl it's your choice Break outside, raise your voice Like the book of esther where she shows her colours And lets down

LOOK OUT AGAIN Tom Cochrane

alone But I just don't want to head back home Look out again You don't know what you do to me Oh I'm not to blame Yeah I'm out in the alley I'm burnin' for you Woah I'm burnin I want you to come down

MESSAGE (RISE UP AGAIN) Tom Cochrane

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 Shining down

DIFFERENT DRUMMER Tom Cochrane

different drummer Nobody tells the truth like she can She moves to a different drummer She's in time, she don't lie Different Drummer, Different Drummer Different Drummer, Different Drummer Got to beat

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

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

Dreamer's Dream Tom Cochrane

to force my hand To make a stand Give me that sweet release Those are the dreams that a Dreamer Dreams Those are the dreams That he dreams That he dreams Fill you up so high So high you wouldn't come down

VACATION (IN MY MIND) Tom Cochrane

Where are you Where you are I will be I am on a vacation Only in my mind Vacation Taking a vacation Don't know what I'll find I'm taking a vacation I'm self-hypnotized Blue man swings to the beat

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

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

When I'm With You Tom Cochrane

it's love, baby it's home The way you shine In the morning light Makes everything alright The way you move me Is out of sight now girl You stand by the fire All bathed in gold With your hair flowing down

BIG LEAGUE Tom Cochrane

lane To the Big League My boy's gonna play in the Big League My boy's gonna turn some heads My boy's gonna play in the Big League My boy's gonna knock 'em dead Never can tell what might come down

Beacon Hill Tom Cochrane

remember (Come out, come out) In the air, there's a feeling that I know Speaks to me of better times Come out, come out Never say bust If you don't start to move You'll start to rust Shot down

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

EVERYTHING COMES AROUND Tom Cochrane

realize What you haven't missed yet When everyone's searching For fortune and fame It's been right in front of you All of the time Everything comes round and round What goes up must soon come down

NORTHERN FRONTIER Tom Cochrane

difference by the colour of their skin One thing in common, and one thing was real clear Their future was ended in the northern frontier Dances with warriors, hatred between slaves They cut each other down

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

GET BACK UP Tom Cochrane

scream I thought I heard some wailing Like lovers in heat I thought maybe we'd been Somewhere that we've never seen Still you lie so still like A china doll lost in a summer dream Here I am way down

RAGGED ASS ROAD Tom Cochrane

Moving out, can you see that shine Feel the change as you roll on down the line Where the shore fires burn out on a new frontier Where the past don't haunt you and there's Nothing else to fear

THE LOADING Tom Cochrane

Gamble of the ages Suit me up I'm ready to go Oh such a young man When the loading had begun When I was a boy I would dream about space Space it would change year to year When she would take me down

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

ASHES TO DIAMONDS Tom Cochrane

s bad man says give me one at a time CHORUS Ashes to diamonds Taken all they find Turning blood to gold Won't let go So damned hot The next time you better slow down If they catch you near 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

WALKING THE FINE LINE Tom Cochrane

Hold your head up high" Never had the guts to turn it around Never had the guts to tear it down Now we got the chance to We're walking that fine line Between a free man and a slave The wind and

BIGGER MAN Tom Cochrane

lay their claim 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 If it all comes down

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

PIECE OF YOUR SOUL Tom Cochrane

your soul And I don't know what would suprise me more If I saw you standing there like before While your secrets unfold When the hard rain's falling on the ground And the blues start to get you down

WILLIE DIXON SAID Tom Cochrane

Dialect comes so slick that 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

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

LOVE UNDER FIRE Tom Cochrane

Stop the leaking, this is ship to shore Down to zero and then back for more Do you miss me?

SONG BEFORE I LEAVE Tom Cochrane

When you were feeling down And was he there to listen I listened but then I drowned in it Behind your silent seal Were nothing gets revealed And maybe your eyes can't fake What your heart no longer

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

I WISH YOU WELL Tom Cochrane

We'll look back on this life as if it were a scene In a film somebody made about you and me I cannot believe there's nothing left to save Hard as a hammer she wants me To come again and again I'm down

MAKE MYSELF COMPLETE Tom Cochrane

Want to laugh a bit 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

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

Shake Monster Tom Cochrane

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 silicon I've come down

SINKING LIKE A SUNSET Tom Cochrane

when you're here Right next to me You can walk too far out on that ledge And you might lose your mind You know I need you now You're an angel that keeps me in line The old sergeant has broken down

WINDY NIGHT IN FALL Tom Cochrane

saw you standing in the Indian summer heat Like a windy night in fall Well I got myself a photograph Got a raven on Can't go to bed till I get back Lately found myself inclined To take it on down

ONE WAY OUT Tom Cochrane

is CHORUS: Just one way out Your heart can't see but your mind concedes Just one way out Just one way out But you don't want to go alone Just one way out Here we go again Should of had it down

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 ord...

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 ...