Tom Cochrane
Tom Cochrane, D.Mus (hon), (born May 14, 1953) is a Canadian singer and son… Read Full Bio ↴Tom Cochrane, D.Mus (hon), (born May 14, 1953) is a Canadian singer and songwriter, whose story-telling songs have earned him the nickname "The thinking man's rocker." His best known song is the hit single "Life Is a Highway." He has also performed with the band Red Rider (alternatively known as Tom Cochrane & Red Rider)

Cochrane was born in Lynn Lake, Manitoba to Violet and Tuck Cochrane, a bush pilot. The family relocated to Etobicoke, Ontario in the West Deane Park area when Tom was four years old. He purchased his first guitar at age 11 by selling a toy train set. He attended Martingrove Collegiate Institute in the 1960's. In the early 1970s, he was performing in coffee houses across Canada. He eventually made his way to Los Angeles where he found a job writing theme music for My Pleasure is My Business, a Xaviera Hollander movie. Unable to find steady income from music, Cochrane returned to Toronto where he drove a taxi cab and later took a job on a Caribbean cruise liner to help pay the bills. Cochrane went back to Los Angeles in 1976, trying to sell his songs to publishers but without success, and returned to Toronto in 1977. Cochrane walked into the El Mocambo club one night in Toronto and came across a band of locals calling themselves Red Rider. After an audition, they agreed to Cochrane joining the band as lead singer and songwriter, a decision that would change their musical careers.

After the Red Rider era, Cochrane set off on his soloist path again. In 1990, Cochrane took his family to West Africa where he helped to raise awareness and money for the World Vision famine relief organization. That experience shaped his next album Mad Mad World which contained the internationally acclaimed hit single "Life is a Highway".

The three-CD box set Ashes to Diamonds, including material by both Red Rider and Cochrane as a solo artist, was released in 1993.

In 1995, he released Ragged Ass Road and followed that with a Canadian tour in 1996. The tour resulted in Songs of a Circling Spirit, a live CD and multi-media package of previously released material.

In June 1999, Cochrane was involved in a light plane crash in Montreal, after his plane's engine stalled just after take-off. Fortunately, no one was injured.

At the 2003 Juno Awards, Tom Cochrane was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. The special award ceremony took place April 5, 2003 at Casino du Lac-Leamy in Gatineau, Quebec. According to the Life Is a Highway Songfacts, his other honors include seven Juno Awards, being an Honorary Colonel in the Canadian Air Force, and having been inducted onto the Canadian Walk of Fame. They take their rock stars seriously in Canada.

In December 2003 he was one of the musical guests on a CBC special called, Rick Mercer's Christmas in Kabul.

He currently lives with his family in Oakville, Ontario.

On July 2, 2005, Cochrane took part in the Live 8 concert series.

Cochrane's new album "No Stranger" recorded in rural Ontario was released in October 2006.

"Life Is A Highway" was re-made in 2006 by the country band Rascal Flatts for the motion picture "Cars" and became a successful country single.
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Tom Cochrane Lyrics


All The King Shut your eyes my darling There's nothing you can say The…
All The King's Men Shut your eyes, my darling There's nothing you can say The…
Among The Ruins I'll be here When the lights go down And there's nothing lef…
Another Page I sit by my castles In the back of my chair Gazing…
Art Of Listening I'm courageous, but I'm weak sometimes Outrageous, but I don…
Ashes to Diamonds I've seen enough The next time you better stay loose There's…
Avenue A You want to be an actress And step down on the…
Beautiful Day Could it be the joke's on us? Seventy-five degrees and it's…
Best Waste Of Time Sit around and curse Apocalypse in verse Gets so you can't…
Big League When he was a kid, he'd be up at five Take…
Bigger Man I watched while you might say So long happy trails You can…
Boy Inside the Man So long, so long, so long, he's been away So long,…
Brave And Crazy He sat down with his guitar in a distant place When…



Breaking Curfew Walk out Through the rain Where the sound of your own footst…
Calling America I dreamt I was a refugee Who lived outside of town My…
Can Knew he was a misfit, Since the age of seventeen He…
Can't Turn Back Knew he was a misfit, since the age of seventeen He…
Charlie Was A Dancer Charlie was a dancer At ten years old Charlie was a dancer I…
Citizen Cain You can lead a horse to water But you cannot make…
Crawl She's got a place where she likes to hide from…
Deep Breath Give you everything you deserve Give you all you need If I…
Diamonds I've seen enough The next time you better stay loose There's…
Didn Waiting in silence You had to go 'Cause just like a baby You…
Didn't Mean Couldn't show who I was The things that I was holding…
Don She's got the answers She waves them like a flag She'll take…
Don't Fight It She's got the answers She waves them like a flag She'll ta…
Dreamer If I was a sailor man If I was lost…
Emotional Truth Let the woman have her peace Let her see the beat Around…
Everything Comes Around I've got a reason And it sounds like this Everything has it'…
Flowers In The Concrete Tilting at windmills on a downtown street O the big grey…
Friendly Advice He says you want a brand new start She says that…
Get Back Up God I hate your needles and Your dirty little vial of…
Glide GLIDE Wanna make art that nobody sees So they'll say it…
Good Man I can't eat I can't sleep I'm so vain I'm sometimes so we…
Good Man Feeling Bad I can't eat I can't sleep I'm so vain I'm sometimes so weak …
Good Times Put the van tape on Bay at the moon Rub…
Hang On To Your Resistance I was choking on attemtped laughter As I looked up from…
Heartbreak Girl She says no one understands No one sees that point of…
Human Race I can see it on the road ahead Running hard, I'm…
I Wish That I I wish that I had said things That I had wanted Or…
I Wish You Well I'm gonna check my scars at home Gonna cash my chips…
I Wonder Change your eyes, your shoes, your hair Be an island, I…
Just Like Ali What I can taste and What I can see and I Battlin'…
Just Scream I'm so tired of all this crap That falls from you…
Lasting Song Won't be the first time you sit alone Won't be the…
Life Is a Highway Life's like a road that you travel on When there's one…
Love Under Fire She got the heart She got the heart of the working…
Lunatic Fringe Lunatic Fringe I know you're out there You're in hiding And …
Mad Mad World I was standing with my paper there Minding my own…
Marianne And Lenny He sits by the bed Watches while she sleeps Her…
Message The message is faint, but it's coming in clear Meet by…
Napolean Sheds his Skin The streets are covered in chalk The shops are boarded up …
Napoleon Sheds His Skin The streets are covered in chalk The shops are boarded up Th…
No Regrets Walking by the roadside I see my fate written upon…
Northern Frontier On a muggy night in the north end in July A…
Northern Star NORTHERN STAR Standing there like a scarecrow Cold wind …
Not so Far Away You might feel you're a stranger Lost in a strange…
Ocean Blue Ask any stranger Out on the boulevard Who is alone They'll s…
One More Time Another place in another time I'd know that face anywhere Wi…
Out Of My Head OUT OF MY HEAD I can almost see your face I can…
Paper Tigers Keep your powder dry and warm Through the coming darkest sto…
Pictures From The Edge Blinders on again basking in the glow Letters from a friend…
Piece Of Your Soul Take away all my blues Fill me with good news When I'm…
Power Look up on the building See a silhouette Crowd looks hungry …
Ragged Ass Road Moving out, can you see that shine Feel the change as…
Revelations The innocent and the poor They've got nothing to hide But th…
River of Stone We turned and stared out On the fields where we once…
Rough and Tumble Lost outside we'd been lost in the rain Hard comin' down…
Since You Left Me Since you left me it's gotten so cold The world's frozen…
Sinking Like A Sunset She's thinking about the prince and Cinderella The outlaws a…
Son's Beat Down Hundred and one in the shade tonight All that time in…
Song Before I Leave Just a song before I leave A few words to believe…
Sons Beat Down Hundred and one in the shade tonight All that time in…
Spirit In The Sky Norman Greenbaum, 1969 When I die and they lay me to…
Stonecutter's Arms Loved a girl named Stacy Nearly drove him crazy Took him for…
The Loading (Hold the line) Linin' them up I remember they shoot 'em …
The Party's Not Over Jonah and Ali leave your boots at the door You were…
The Secret Is To Know When To Stop Do you remember the night the lights went out All along…
The Untouchable One See her by the corner Then she walks on by Heads turn…
This Is The World Hey, hey, hey, hey Make you sometimes want to fly away Let…
Untouchable One See her by the corner Then she walks on by Heads turn…
Vacation Taking a vacation Don't know what I'll find Taking a vacat…
Victory Day She's got her reasons, she's got her pride Though she's beat…
Walking The Fine Line Lost my job in the darkest place, Going to get…
Washed Away We live out here in the desert Where time stands still In…
West Coast Saga I walked by the west Canadian shore Where I was born…
What's In You Mass communication now Cleans across the nation, it's on M…
What's In You? Mass communication now Cleans across the nation, it's on Mas…
When I Come sit by the fireside With me baby Melt into the dawn Wit…
While You Are Young WHILE YOU ARE YOUNG While you are young While you are he…
White Horse I really didn't get to know you all that well You…
White Hot Waiting by the shoreline In Somalia for your reply I need yo…
Wildest Dreams You talks as if in riddles You talk as if in…
Will Of The Gun I find it hard to imagine This world without guns and…
Willie Dixon Said Junkyard pilot and his sidekick derelict Blacktop halle-bop…
Windy Night In Fall She says, "Think you're the only one who's had it…
You're Driving Me Crazy It's strange to hear you talk about faith When you were…


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