CHARLIE WAS A DANCER Tom Cochrane

Charlie was a dancer At ten years old, Charlie was a dancer In his dreams He loved to watch old movies With his mother there, He loved to watch old movies With Fred Astaire Dance, Charlie

Shake Monster Tom Cochrane

I was on patrol It was late at night I was checking the parameters To see if it was air tight All points clear looked like everything was alright Twelve o'clock high when I saw the big green light

BEST WASTE OF TIME Tom Cochrane

Somebody hands you isms of despair (CHORUS) And we were sitting in this room You and me and these four walls Talking through each others eyes And saying nothing nothing nothing at all And it was

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...

Dreamer's Dream Tom Cochrane

If I was a sailor man If I was lost at sea I'd see your light shining there Off the rocks, off the sand That light would be all that I'd see And if I was the king of the world With all the world to set

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

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

GOOD TIMES Tom Cochrane

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 best The good times we had Wouldn't worry about tomorrow 'Cause tonight was

THE LOADING Tom Cochrane

too fast I was framed no holds barred So they say I can't believe that it ended all like this Gamble of the ages Suit me up I'm ready to go Oh such a young man When the loading had begun When

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.

IRON IN THE SOUL Tom Cochrane

Get a little iron in the soul Don't let yourself be sold Get a little iron in the soul And let your money ride Looking for the man that she calls little Caesar He makes it home on weekends Just so

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

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

I WISH THAT I COULD SEE YOU NOW Tom Cochrane

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 morning comes as a

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

BOY INSIDE THE MAN Tom Cochrane

So long so long so long he's been away So long so long so long he's back again When I turned seventeen We had passion, we had dreams Thought the love we were fighting for Was something holy, something

THE SECRET IS TO KNOW WHEN TO STOP Tom Cochrane

It started to rain My coat your dress got wet We laughed til we almost cried Your spirit was so contagious Our timing was really bad You were so outrageous How could we hold back?

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

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

HUMAN RACE Tom Cochrane

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 you but, That was

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

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

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

REVELATIONS: VISIONS IN A DREAM Tom Cochrane

starve by the millions The false of the lame Of the foolish few who knew them Then led them to the shame The king he knights the players They all know the score But nobody told his mistress She was

WINNER TAKE ALL Tom Cochrane

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 thought Little round peg in 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

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

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

WEST COAST SAGA Tom Cochrane

I walked by the west Canadian shore Where I was born beneath the sky, Staggered by and by, I cried, Realizing I was once blind I felt the wind blow in from the sea, And it was blowing in on me

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

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

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

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

Hold Tight Tom Cochrane

We carry on And then then the change Someone has attached wires to my brain And oh The sky is falling When all the while we thought for sure That London was calling 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

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

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

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

SINKING LIKE A SUNSET Tom Cochrane

story is Because in real life I try to tell her It's not like that at all Oh won't you please just hold out now Cause there are some things I'd like you to forget When you world is...Sinking like a

WINDY NIGHT IN FALL Tom Cochrane

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 your soul like a

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

WALKING THE FINE LINE Tom Cochrane

Walking that fine line Between the sun and the sky The smoke and the steel you and me Taking the longest ride, Crack the sky But get out alive this time Me and my friend we been up all night Had a

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

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

ART OF LISTENING Tom Cochrane

I'm courageous but I'm weak sometimes Outrageous but I don't 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

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

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

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

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