BEST WASTE OF TIME Tom Cochrane

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 the best waste of

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

FRIENDLY ADVICE Tom Cochrane

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 owe that to me like I'd owe that to you So go your own way and in time

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

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

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

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

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.'

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

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

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

VICTORY DAY Tom Cochrane

She'll turn to see what is true Won't draw no curtains, be hiding no way On 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

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

NAPOLEON SHEDS HIS SKIN Tom Cochrane

Or when to say die Pick the bones, get a tan Or wander Underground She would not have left him anyway Wait by the sea, wait in the sun As if the time Stood still Did he get involved In whichever

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

IRON IN THE SOUL Tom Cochrane

One shot wonder kid Waiting for the man that did Shoot at her without any reason Please me don't tease me Disco's out of season The mad girl cries from the other side Hey, baby!

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

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 best

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

DIFFERENT DRUMMER Tom Cochrane

she says so much All the world's a stage to her She wants to bash and dance on it She moves to a different drummer Nobody tells the truth like she can She moves to a different drummer She's in time

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

GOOD MAN FEELING BAD Tom Cochrane

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 that things don't change And all the time

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

Hold Tight Tom Cochrane

We are as one Never be Too far gone Always leave yourself Some room to get in Time will pass Then have no doubt We'll send someone to get you out And what then CHORUS: Hold tight!

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