 Genius Lyrics
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Hey You
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[Verse 1] / Hey you! / You say you wanna change the world / It's alright / With me! There's no regret / It's my turn! / The circle game has brought me here / And I won't let down '
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Four Wheel Drive
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Why can't you do something right? / Your name is all over the town / Your reputation is sweeping the nation / The rumors are bringing me down / You stand on the tip of my tongue
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Down Down
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[Verse 1] / When the mornin' comes / You'll know by my shoes I've been out walking / If I don't return / You'll know I've found something to believe in, to believe in / [Verse 2
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Shotgun Rider
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There was a man who owned a part of town / Approached me in his own saloon and said, "hey boy, sit down" / "Was I unemployed or would I like a job" / He said he owned the stageline
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Takin' Care of Business
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“Takin' Care of Business” is about the daily routine and process it takes to live this thing we call “life” through work.
Randy Bachman developed the song under the working title
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Not Fragile
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Comin' to you across country / Hoping boogies still allowed / You ask do we play heavy music / Well are thunderheads just another cloud / We do / Not Fragile, straight at you
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – For Love
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I'll make the music play / Sing every song for love / I'd cross the mountain range / Climb the peaks and call your name / Even walk the fiery git / Then walk all day to taste your
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Let It Ride
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The band’s first successful single, reaching no. 23 in the US and #3 in their native Canada.
From the album that charted #4 in the Billboard chart that also yielded their big
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
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The 1974 Canadian band hit which topped the Billboard charts then, winning as well the Juno Award.
Bachman Turner Overdrive consisted of songwriter Randy Bachman and his
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Roll On Down the Highway
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[Verse 1] / We rented a truck and a semi to go / Travel down the long and winding road / Look on the map I think we've been here before / Close all the doors let's roll once more
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Sledgehammer
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For days I have tried to forget you / And not care where you are / No matter where you are / But rainbows are not made from memories / I got to try to find / A way to ease my mind
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Rock and Roll Hell
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[Verse 1] / Seems that everyday is another act in this play / Doing time in this rock and roll band / Going town to town doing uppers and downers / Till I'm not sure who I am / The
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Blown
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I used to smoke my face out / Right through the sky / I used to love to freak out / Do you wonder why / I'd hear the Stones rollin' / And I'd roll too / I didn't care what I was
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Heartaches
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Look at me, I was just a man who was lonely / Had some time on my hands / The world's greatest plans in my jeans / I saw you, you came to me like you knew me / I don't think you
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Average Man
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They say I make too much money, to fit in my pocket / Everyone wants to but no one can top it / I meet more people in a week on the line / Than one man can dream of in his whole
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Lookin’ Out for #1
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Every day is an endless train / You got to ride it to the end of the line / Be a troubleshooter, blow the bad luck away / And you will make it to your station on time / And you'll
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Madison Avenue
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The Madison Avenue blues are on my mind / People are living there on borrowed time / Pleasure is the sentence, creation's the crime / Then out to the streets to play the games of
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Blue Collar
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[Verse 1] / Walk your street / And I'll walk mine / And should we meet / Would you spare me some time? / 'Cause you should see my world / Meet my kind, before you judge our minds
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Down to the Line
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I've made up my mind / I've got to get out in a hurry / I've stated my case / There's no need to come on with worry / 'Cause I'm a real straight shooter / And my boot heels are
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Freeways
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Drivin' in a beat up car / The highway is long but we've come so far / Two thousand miles from home / We got to find someplace that we can belong / But, we know, the freeways in
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Flat Broke Love
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Pardon my life, pardon my song / I hope you're not nervous, I'm not going to stay long / The one installment, I've made on your heart / Is not enough to cover what we're willin' to
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Little Gandy Dancer
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Money / She always gets a chance / Music / She sure knows how to dance / She's a high-flying woman so reach for the sky / She's gonna knock you down then pass on by / She's a high-
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – American Woman
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Da-da-da, mmm / American woman gonna miss your man / Say A / Say M / Say E / Say R / Say I / Say C / Say A / Say N / American woman gonna miss your man / American Woman, stay away
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Wild Spirit
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I'm a wild spirit and I've always been this free / Lovin' the skies that I'm under / Born to the wind, Ive been flyin' thru the breeze / Storms roll on filled with thunder
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – She's Keepin' Time
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Trouble comes in shapes and sizes / Some of them are friends / Trouble is what trouble does / It always has an end / I've got to keep myself together / Got to get it straight / I'
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Lowland Fling
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Bring your pipes and bring your sword / I'll meet you in the lowland / Tune your banjo, don't be late / It's time we all were going / Fling your arms and clap your hands / Gather
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Hold Back the Water
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Headed 'cross the border / Looking for a place to play / I left the sun behind / I don't mind / But I think that it looked like rain / Hold back the water / I gotta find time to
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Give It Time
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You can see'em, the things that you want / But you don't have the means to buy / I've been eyeing what you've got in stock / And I'll tell you what's on my mind / We could meet in
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Find Out About Love
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[Verse 1] / Turn me loose from all this madness / 'Cause the situation changes day to day / I been searchin' the world to find the answer / I just got to find some time to slip
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Thank You for the Feelin'
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Thank you for the feelin' / But I think I've had enough / For the sun came late this morning / And I sure am feeling rough / Been this way for hours / Just can't seem to clear my
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Stayed Awake All Night
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In the cool cool cool of the morning / That's when I'm coming home / In the cool cool cool of the morning / That's when I'm coming home / Stayed awake all night / (Stayed awake all
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Stonegates
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I was raised, born and bred in a prairie town / When a dark eyed woman really laid the feelings down / We were one, had our fun in our younger years / Well I remember damn well she
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Blue Moanin'
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Blue moanin', you're down so blue / You do your livin' / And it's what you do / Did you listen to what your daddy say / Or did you find it boring / And just drift away / Blue blue
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Wastin' Time
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I could have been a winner / Should have taken me / It was so damn cold I shoulda held ya / 'Cause you were shakin' me / I almost had a question / When she led me home / I spent
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Away from Home
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Early in the morning / When the sun begins to shine / You will see this poor boy / Leavin', leavin' love behind / Seems it's just another day / Guess I'm goin' another way / Away
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Jamaica
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When will these dark clouds disappear from view / When will the sun begin to shine / When will I once again be near to you / When will I know for sure you're mine / Dreaming of
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Gimme Your Money Please
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I was walking on down the alley / When a face I've never seen / Came so from deep in the darkness / And his mouth came on real mean / And I saw that he'd been liquored / And he
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Down the Road
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Burned down on the boulevard / Livin' so fast and sweet and hard / Don'tcha try and shoot me down / Don't intend to stick around / Gotta move, move on down the road / Gotta move
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Bachman–Turner Overdrive – End of the Line
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I've made up my mind / I've got to get out in a hurry / I've stated my case / There's no need to come on with worry / 'Cause I'm a real straight shooter / And my boot heels are
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