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

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

I hear you...

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

PAPER TIGERS Tom Cochrane

darkest night All those paper tigers All their lies they might have sold you Might be wasted on One so young that you're old again She walks out thru the wind and the rain uh-huh They can't give

MESSAGE (RISE UP AGAIN) Tom Cochrane

Shining down on your hot white skin And you know it Can you reach it Feeling good like we just don't care Feeling fine with the moon in your hair Moon's up down on outlet beach Something's wild

VICTORY DAY Tom Cochrane

that Victory Day Victory Day, Victory Day There's no rockets flaring, there's no loud display If you walk with me we'll get there someway On that Victory Day In the sun, walk by the water, in

VACATION (IN MY MIND) Tom Cochrane

there Stuck some clothes in a sack I'm slipping out the back door Sit by the range See the splendors of the Bronze Age I'll be wild eyed and waiting They got me there and well placed Where are you

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

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

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.

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

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

WASHED AWAY Tom Cochrane

a river Soon leaves us all behind Like a summer rain It all gets washed away Round and round and round we go Where it stops don't no one know Find a love you better let them know Before you both

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

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

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

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

HEARTBREAK GIRL Tom Cochrane

Turn me upside down, you turn me upside down You're boundless Where I'm calling from I wont desert you Where you're calling from they'd like to eat you But they can't hurt you Don't you know you're

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

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.'

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

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

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

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

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

PIECE OF YOUR SOUL Tom Cochrane

secrets unfold And we're like a river you and I Like a river we're gonna run I can depend on this Handle to hold You give a piece of your soul You pick me up when I get too low You give a piece

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

I WONDER Tom Cochrane

Change your eyes, 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

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

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?

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

CRAWL Tom Cochrane

somewhere Where love was made to last Don't know where this might lead But the light shines for her still Ain't gonna crawl No...ain't gonna crawl no more No...ain't gonna lay down here at your door You

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

LOVE UNDER FIRE Tom Cochrane

know it's not to be forgotten She's seen this place before Where do you stop it?

THE SECRET IS TO KNOW WHEN TO STOP Tom Cochrane

Do you remember the night The lights went out All along the promenade?

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

SINKING LIKE A SUNSET Tom Cochrane

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 life I try to tell her It's not like that at all Oh won't you

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

MAD MAD WORLD Tom Cochrane

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 order is on

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

SONG BEFORE I LEAVE Tom Cochrane

a warm fire in December They'll remind us who is real And who is just passing by A small taste of what once was The sweet smell of some bright springtime CHORUS And i'll remember Sunflowers on

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

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

WILLIE DIXON SAID Tom Cochrane

Junkyard pilot and his sidekick derelict Blactop halle bop microbus news do you get it?

Beacon Hill Tom Cochrane

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, come out Never say bust If you

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

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

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

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