Songwriter: Tom Cochrane
Producer: 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 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 pushing forty-four
I don't want to know
Where we're heading for
We don't have long to go
We'll hear footsteps in the dawn
REFRAIN
'Cause it's just some sort of
Crazy ride we're on
The queen she knows the exit
She's been there once or twice
Whe her saviour got ostricized
For selling free advice
And her knight in shining armour
Comes sliding through the door
Sporting suggestive glances
At all the dancers on the floor
Well I dreamt all those lonely people
I knew them by their names
But their faces lost their identity
In the fury of the flames
They talked in foreign riddles
Lik actors on a stage
But when the word came they were standing scared
Lost in a doomed age
(REFRAIN)
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 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 pushing forty-four
I don't want to know
Where we're heading for
We don't have long to go
We'll hear footsteps in the dawn
REFRAIN
'Cause it's just some sort of
Crazy ride we're on
The queen she knows the exit
She's been there once or twice
Whe her saviour got ostricized
For selling free advice
And her knight in shining armour
Comes sliding through the door
Sporting suggestive glances
At all the dancers on the floor
Well I dreamt all those lonely people
I knew them by their names
But their faces lost their identity
In the fury of the flames
They talked in foreign riddles
Lik actors on a stage
But when the word came they were standing scared
Lost in a doomed age
(REFRAIN)
more tracks from the album
From the album
- Hang On to Your Resistance (1974)
Tom Cochrane popular songs
- Life Is a Highway
- Northern Frontier
- Just Scream
- Dreamer’s Dream
- Bigger Man
- Didn’t Mean
- Good Man Feeling Bad
- Will of the Gun
- Art of Listening
- Emotional Truth
- Revelations: Visions in a Dream
- No Regrets
- Wildest Dreams
- Another Page
- While You Are Young
- Deep Breath
- Northern Star
- Brave and Crazy
- Mad Mad World
- All the King’s Men
- Hang On to Your Resistance
- I Wish You Well
- I Wish That (I Could See You Now)
- Napoleon Sheds His Skin