Released: September 19, 1991
Songwriter: Tom Cochrane
Producer: Joe Hardy Tom Cochrane
I watched while you might say
So long happy trails
You can only wait so long
Till the wind shakes your sails
And you see the she says "bye bye"
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 prove to me
You say the deck is oh so stacked
Is that all just in your mind
It can sometimes be turned back
Maybe sometimes if you try
The play goes on and on
While the big cats all lay their claim
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 prove
If it all comes down tonight
There'll be shades of light
From a wider source
Oh hit me up they'd say
"We'll make nero hide
Till Rome it burns to the ground"
Then we'll never wave bye bye
They never have seen a darker horse than us
CHORUS
So long happy trails
You can only wait so long
Till the wind shakes your sails
And you see the she says "bye bye"
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 prove to me
You say the deck is oh so stacked
Is that all just in your mind
It can sometimes be turned back
Maybe sometimes if you try
The play goes on and on
While the big cats all lay their claim
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 prove
If it all comes down tonight
There'll be shades of light
From a wider source
Oh hit me up they'd say
"We'll make nero hide
Till Rome it burns to the ground"
Then we'll never wave bye bye
They never have seen a darker horse than us
CHORUS
more tracks from the album
From the album
- Mad Mad World (1991)
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