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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

FLOWERS IN THE CONCRETE Tom Cochrane

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 brownlow here She gathers enough spare change to

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

DIFFERENT DRUMMER Tom Cochrane

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 a stage to

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

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

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?

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?

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

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

JUST SCREAM Tom Cochrane

have you gone insane You can fly 6000 miles And think its no big deal And turn and come back in Anytime you feel If there's something more need I cried for you, I would've died for you Tell it to

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

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

WINNER TAKE ALL Tom Cochrane

don't give it another thought Little round peg in a big square slot Strangest son in a big top coat If you go that far then that's all she wrote Win or lose you've got the Berlin blues Your back's to

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

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

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

WHITE HOT Tom Cochrane

Waiting by the shoreline In somalia for your reply I need you to come see me That's no lie The guns are getting closer The sweat pours like dew That fell from the trees in tripoli In the spring

BRAVE AND CRAZY Tom Cochrane

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 your back room deals Modern love was invented by the minstrels in the dark ages Where they used to

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

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

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

THE LOADING Tom Cochrane

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 the ages Suit me up I'm ready to

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

I WISH YOU WELL Tom Cochrane

I'm gonna check my scars at home Gonna cash my chips and roam Gonna walk before I fade to black I'm gonna write a new resume I'm gonna write you off the page I'm gonna take what we might take away

WORK OUT Tom Cochrane

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 woman, every man Engines started Ready to

Young Thing, Wild Dreams (Rock Me) Tom Cochrane

With) your fist so fat Forget about that Come on out and move me Move me, move me Let your spirit ring Rock me 'Til I can't think Young thing, young thing Is your world so flat Drive out to

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

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

WILLIE DIXON SAID Tom Cochrane

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 this son - state of mind we're in Like Willie Dixon said got to

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

BIGGER MAN Tom Cochrane

" Then she turns and digs her 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

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

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

Whipping Boy Tom Cochrane

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 your whipping boy You won't hang that tag on me I have read this book before Tell it all to

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

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

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

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!

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...

IRON IN THE SOUL Tom Cochrane

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 he can see her His wide eyed girl, she's closer to

BIG LEAGUE Tom Cochrane

Big League Not many ways out of this cold northern town You work in the mill and get laid in the ground If you're gonna jump it will be with the game Real fast and tough is the only clear lane to