• 01. LIVING OUT MY DREAMS (English version)*

    This is the moment I’ve been waiting for all my life
    To open my heart and show you I’ve nothing to hide
    You see the best in me and I owe it all to you

    Take a look at me now
    Living out my dreams now
    Sure as I am standing here tonight
    Make this last forever
    You and me together
    Living all our dreams out loud tonight

    All from a spark to a flicker that burst into flame
    Now the amber of hope and this moment are one in the same
    Some call it destiny shining this light on me

    Take a look at me now
    Living out my dreams now
    Sure as I am standing here tonight
    Make this last forever
    You and me together
    Living all our dreams out loud tonight

    You don’t have to close your eyes to dream
    All I see is right in front of me

    Take a look at me now
    Living out my dreams now
    Sure as I am standing here tonight
    Make this Iast forever
    You and me together

    Living all our dreams out loud tonight

  • 02. KISSING RAIN

    Another night of falling rain
    Your memory flickers like a flame
    It echoes like a distant tune
    Dances on the four walls of my room

    With hair as black as a book of prayer
    Your laughter filled the morning air
    Now it doesn’t seem so long ago
    But how we ever parted, I don’t know

    Where are you now? So far away
    If only some how the night would disappear
    And I could have you here
    There’s a breeze on the water

    Blowing time back to me
    I can still see your face
    Kissing Rain
    We wandered through a hundred days

    And watched the stars on Half-Moon Bay
    Then like a season you were gone
    You left me on a frozen April dawn
    You were the storm-in my sky

    If only once more I could be so free
    Feel you washing over me
    There’s a breeze on the water
    Blowing time back to me

    I can still see your face
    Kissing Rain
    There’s a long cool river
    Running wild to the sea

    And I am calling your name
    Kissing Rain
    I’m a prisoner of time
    And I’m chained to memories

    How can you be so free
    There’s a breeze
    There is a long cool river
    Running wild to the sea

    And I am calling your name
    Kissing Rain
    There’s a breeze on the water
    (Daughter of the thunder)

    Blowing time back to me
    (Your face turned towards the sky)
    I can still see your face
    (Standing high on a hillside babe)

    Kissing Rain
    There’s a long cool river
    (I’m a prisoner of time)
    Running wild to the sea

    (I am chained to memories)
    And I am calling your name
    (Calling your name calling your name)

  • 03. STE-ANNIE OF THE WILD BLUE EYES

    A paper wrapped round a lamppost
    At Bleecker and MacDougal where Kerouac stood
    The wind pushed us into a doorway
    And it felt good, it felt good
    Time didn’t pass it scattered
    I put one more on the tab
    We flagged a ride at closing time
    And the laughs turned into kisses in the back of the cab
    And it felt good
    St. Annie you blessed my bed
    Your sweet love was my daily bread
    You’d come to me when the moon would rise
    Sweet St. Annie of the wild blue eyes
    The days flew by like pages
    On those rain-soaked streets where Gainsberg wrote
    We made love in the mornings
    Where did that go, where did they go?
    You were my ragtag savior
    And I was your hopeless case
    We made are way through the bars and cafes
    And I memorized your heavenly face
    Where did you go?
    St. Annie you blessed my bed
    Your sweet love was my daily bread
    You’d come to me when the moon would rise
    Sweet St. Annie of the wild blue eyes
    I knew we couldn’t last together
    But I’ll picture your blue eyes for ever..
    Sweet , Sweet Annie
    Your love was all I had
    And your wild blue eyes..
    Sweet St. Annie of the wild blue eyes…
    St. Annie you blessed my bed
    Your sweet love was my daily bread
    You’d come to me when the moon would rise
    Sweet St. Annie of the wild blue eyes
    St. Annie you blessed my bed
    Your sweet love was my daily bread
    You’d come to me when the moon would rise
    Sweet St. Annie of the wild blue eyes…
  • 04. SHED A LIGHT

    In her world of fantasy
    Wanting to fill her heart’s desires
    She has travelled in her dreams
    To places she hopes to find
    But you have all the answers
    In simple words that say I love you

    Shed a light on her life
    Tell her you will be there
    Show her you really care
    Love her with all your might
    Hold her close while you can
    Tell her you’ll be her man

    Cast away your childish dreams
    Cause a love like hers is hard to find
    Promise her you’ll nerver leave
    Let her know you’re not that behind
    And you will mend pieces
    Whenever she’s broken hearted

    Shed a light on her life
    Tell her you will be there
    Show her you really care
    Love her with all your might
    Hold her close while you can
    Tell her you’ll be her man
    Shed a light on her life
    Tell her you will be there
    Tell her you really care …
    Baby me loving you
    Baby me loving you
    Baby you loving me …

    Shed a light on her life
    Tell her you will be there
    Show her you really care
    Love her with all your might
    Hold her close while you can
    Tell her you’ll be her man
    Shed a light on her life
    Tell her you will be there
    Show her you really care
    Love her with all your might
    Hold her close while you can
    Tell her you’ll be her man
    Tell her you will be her man …

  • 05. WITH THESE EYES

    With these eyes
    I’ve held you in my arms
    Your love was all I had
    But You had to end it all
    With these eyes
    I’ve stood out in the rain
    I’ve listened for your call
    That never came at all

    With these eyes
    You’re everything to me
    Without your love
    I’ll wind up down upon my knees
    With these eyes
    I’ve learned from my mistake
    That a sad song doesn’t care
    Whose heart it breaks

    With these eyes
    I’m feeling out of touch
    I’ve waited patiently
    For you whose love
    I need so much
    With these eyes
    I’ve watched you turn away
    With nothing left to give
    And nothing more to stay

    With these eyes
    You’re everything to me
    Without your love
    I’ll wind up down upon my knees
    With these eyes
    I’ve learned from my mistake
    That a sad song doesn’t care
    Whose heart it breaks

    And though my love for you runs so deep
    It doesn’t mean that you and I
    Are sharing the same dream if only
    I could listen to your words
    And not my heart
    You’re tryin’ to spare my feelings
    But you’re tearing me apart

    With these eyes
    You’re everything to me
    Without your love
    I’ll wind up down upon my knees
    With these eyes
    I’ve learned from my mistake
    That a sad song doesn’t care
    Whose heart it breaks

  • 06. DON’T GIVE UP

    Hey ! Would you believe it
    If I told you that
    I know what it’s like
    from behind your eyes
    A pile of broken pieces
    That fell from your heart
    Is gathered around you staring
    And there’s no escaping
    But everything’s changing
    Under the sun
    What’s done is done

    Don’t give up
    Don’t give up
    No matter how hard it seems
    Hold on to your dreams
    Don’t give up
    Whatever you do
    (Remember) there’s so much love
    And there’s so much still to come

    Hey! Would you believe it
    If I told you
    I know how it feels
    From where you stand
    The days that you wasted
    On tables that turned
    You thought you might learn in time
    Not to get burned
    But everything changes
    Under the sun
    So run bay run

    Don’t give up
    Don’t give up
    No matter how hard it seems
    Hold on to your dreams
    Don’t give up
    Whatever you do
    Remember there’s so much love
    And there’s so much still to come
    It never gets done
    It’s run baby run
    Yeah!

    So, don’t give up
    So, don’t give up
    So, don’t give up …

    Don’t give up
    No matter how hard it seems
    Hold on to your dreams
    Don’t give up
    Whatever you do
    Remember there’s so much love
    And there’s so much still to come

    Don’t give up
    No matter how hard it seems
    Hold on to your dreams
    Don’t give up
    Whatever you do
    Remember there’s so much love
    And there’s so much still to come
    Don’t give up
    Don’t give up
    Don’t give up

  • 07. DELIVER ME

    2 o’clock in the morning
    God I’m still awake
    Thunder rolls like I’m wounded
    My hearts about to brake

    Lying here beside you
    Where love used to be

    Deliver me
    Deliver me
    I’m losing ground
    You’re the only one can’t you see
    Deliver me
    ’cause I hear the sound
    Of your voice and I feel whole again, babe
    Please deliver me

    I never could understand it
    Why something so strong
    As hard as you try to hold it
    Can turn out so wrong

    Lying here beside you
    Down on my knees

    Deliver me
    Deliver me
    I’m losing ground
    You’re the only one can’t you see
    Deliver me
    ’cause I hear the sound
    Of your voice and I feel whole again, babe
    Please deliver me

    From the words we should have said
    Deliver me
    From the shadows in my head
    Baby please
    Deliver me
    Deliver me

    Deliver me
    Deliver me
    I’m losing ground
    You’re the only one can’t you see
    Deliver me
    ’cause I hear the sound
    Of your voice and I know you’ll deliver me

    Deliver me
    ’cause I hear the sound
    Of your voice and I feel whole again babe
    So baby take me home again
    Or set me free
    Deliver me
    Deliver me
    I’m down on my knees

  • 08. HIGHER

    Sometimes it’s so hard to explain
    What our hearts conceal.
    I would just get lost in between
    The things I feel.
    Now all I want to do for you
    Is to rectify. (Rectify)

    [Chorus]
    All I meant to say
    Every night and day
    You set my heart on fire.
    You’re the air I breathe.
    You’re the rarity.
    Takin’ me higher.

    And then you’ll never know.

    All I meant to do for you, my love
    Is turn the world around
    All I meant to do for you, my love.
    My hands were tied down.
    If I ever failed you, Angel,
    Won’t you let me try? (Rectify)

    [Chorus: x2]

    And then you’ll never know.

    (Sometimes it’s so hard to explain.)
    If I ever failed you, Angel,
    Won’t you let me try?

    [Chorus: x2]

    And then you’ll never know.

  • 09. LIFE’S A BEACH

    I’ve been dreaming
    That my life was gonna change
    And I’ve been thinking
    Of the way to beat the strange
    Cause the demons stop and stare
    And I see them eveywhere
    Everywhere

    I’ve been craving
    For the sun to soak my face
    Forgetting
    All those old familiar places
    But I find it sometimes
    Hard to wish upon a star
    I don’t need a haunted heart

    Life’s a beach
    If you wanna live it up
    Life’s a beach
    If you don’t let it
    Take you down
    Life’s a beach
    I want my feet in the sand
    I just hope you understand

    I’ve been praying
    For a better human race
    But I’ve been broken
    Trying to fix this place
    So like a surfer on a wave
    I will try to find my space
    In the middle of this phase

    Life’s a beach
    If you wanna live it up
    Life’s a beach
    If you don’t let it
    Take you down
    Life’s a beach
    I want my feet in the sand
    I just hope you understand
    I can be a better man
    If only I could make a stand

    Life’s a beach
    If you wanna live it up
    Life’s a beach
    If you don’t let it
    Take you down
    Life’s a beach
    I want my feet in the sand
    I just hope you understand

    Life’s a beach
    If you wanna live it up
    Life’s a beach
    If you don’t let it
    Take you down
    Life’s a beach
    I want my feet in the sand
    I just hope you understand

  • 10. AM I WRONG

    For Mary-Jane
    Most every night
    I played
    The same old song
    That lingered on for days
    For Mary-Ann
    Her friends all gone
    I Stayed And through the night
    I held her tight and prayed

    Am I wrong
    ‘Cause I didn’t have the strength to carry on
    ‘Cause I never looked behind me, I was gone
    And all that I could do
    Was write their song
    Am I right
    To share a part of them into the light
    For telling you and standing here in white
    My memories are haunting me tonight

    For Mary-Line
    For weeks on end I tried
    To fold my world
    And keep her pearl inside
    For Mary-Lou I caught the moon
    Last night She never came
    But who’s to blame I lied

    Am I wrong
    ‘Cause I didn’t have the strength to carry on
    ‘Cause I never looked behind me, I was gone
    And all that I could do
    Was write their song
    Am I right
    To share a part of them into the light
    For telling you and standing here in white
    My memories are haunting me tonight
    Am I right
    To share a part of them into the light
    For telling you and standing right here
    Tonight

  • 11. BY MYSELF

    I didn’t want to have to make you cry
    I didn’t want to say goodbye
    I couldn’t bare to face the truth
    But I was me and you were you
    I didn’t want to have to let you down
    I didn’t want to hang around
    Pretending we would make it through
    Cause you lost me and I lost you

    Chorus:
    I’m by myself
    My heart is shaken
    Was I mistaken
    By leaving today
    Beside myself
    Our love is faded
    I’m slowly breaking away

    I didn’t want to have to start and then
    I didn’t want to face the end
    I didn’t want to hold the pain
    I can’t afford to feel again
    But this is where I’m in my life
    And I know somehow I’ll get by
    I didn’t want to feel the cold
    But Babe, I have to let you go

    Chorus

    Forgive me if I’ve never
    Got to say I’m sorry
    Forgive me girl
    Cause I won’t be around

    I’m by myself
    Beside myself
    Our love is faded
    I’m slowly breaking away

    Chorus

  • 12. SHOUT OUT LOUD

    Well I’ve been some places
    And seen lots of faces
    facing towards the distant light
    Now I hear people laughing
    And see people smiling
    All over the news tonight
    Oh I see new generations
    Bringing new vibrations
    They’re skilled and they do things right
    I see you and me
    Loving to be free
    So come along and make things bright

    Chorus:
    Me all I’ve got
    It’s just a little singing now
    If you wanna be part of it
    Just hold your hands and
    shout out loud
    shout out loud

    So we followed the traces
    And we filled upi the places
    Looking for a better sight
    Now we see strong bonding action
    Tween people of the nations
    No matter if they’re black, red or white
    And we see people trying
    Giving all their loving
    Giving everything they’ve got
    And there’s you and me
    Loving desperately
    Open up your heart
    And let’s see some light

    Chorus:
    Me all I’ve got
    It’s just a little singing now
    If you wanna be part of it
    Just hold your hands and
    shout out loud
    shout out loud

    You say no way
    Well just look around
    Can’t you see that love
    Can bring us around

    Chorus:
    Me all I’ve got
    It’s just a little singing now
    If you wanna be part of it
    Just hold your hands and
    shout out loud
    shout out loud

    Shout out loud
    Shout out loud
    No more tears
    No more tears
    Shout out loud
    No more cries
    Shout out loud
    No more cries
    No more cries
    Shout out loud

  • 13. ONE DAY*

    One day love won’t hide its face
    One day we’ll wake up in a world of grace
    One flame burns in me tonight
    To see you your beauty washed in morning light

    I hear the voices saying this will never be
    Please don’t give up on me

    Time will find a way
    And love will come to stay
    We’ll fly across these walls
    And all our fears will fall (away)
    Time will find a cure
    When hope’s an open door
    Know that I believe
    You’ll be here with me one day

    I’m watching the evenings tumble down
    I’m waiting dancing with my shadow now
    One thought can fill a thousand prayers
    (That) one day time will stop and you’ll be there

    I hear the voices saying this will not come true
    But I won’t give up on you

    Time will find a way
    And love will come to stay
    We’ll fly across these walls
    And all our fears will fall (away)
    Time will find a cure
    When hope’s an open door

    Know that I believe
    You’ll be here with me one day

    Oh where the searchlight shines
    Across the northern sky

    Oh my destiny is you
    Time will find a way
    And love will come to stay
    We’ll fly across these walls
    And all our fears will fall (away)
    Time will find a cure
    When hope’s an open door
    Know that I believe
    You’ll be here with me one day

  • 14. I’LL ALWAYS BE THERE

    You and I have followed the trace
    Laid by the people of faith and pride
    With hungry eyes

    You and I could conquer the stars if we tried
    Or simply live by simpler vows
    And let the storm go by

    You and I have written the book line by line
    And the few things that took to survive
    Was your loving heart and mine

    Should you go remember these words
    As they show just how much I care
    Don’t you know? I’ll always be there

    I’ll always be there
    There when the world and its promise is failing
    I’ll always be there
    There when the frost of its winter is cursing

    I’ll always be there
    There when tears in you eyes
    Keep asking me
    I’ll always be there

    You and I will follow the trace
    Laid by people of faith and pride
    With angry eyes gone blind

    You and I will show them the light
    We live by so never again will they try
    To keep us apart

    I’ll always be there
    There when the world and its promise is failing
    I’ll always be there
    There when the frost of its winter is cursing

    I’ll always be there
    There when tears in you eyes
    Keep on asking me why

    I’ll always be there
    There when the world and its promise is failing
    I’ll always be there
    There when tears in you eyes
    Keep on asking me why, asking me why

    I’ll always be there
    There when the frost of its winter is cursing
    I’ll always be there
    There when your loving is such
    You keep burning alive

    I’ll always be there
    I’ll always be there

    I’ll always be there
    I’ll always be there

  • 15. UNDER THE BRIDGE (with Carlos Santana)*

    Sometimes I feel like I don’t have a partner
    Sometimes I feel like my only friend
    Is the city I live in, the city of angels
    Lonely as I am, together we cry

    I drive on her streets, ’cause she’s my companion
    I walk through her hills, ’cause she knows who I am
    She sees my good deeds, and she kisses me windy
    Well, I never worry, now that is a lie

    And I don’t ever want to feel
    Like I did that day
    Take me to the place I love
    Take me all the way

    I don’t ever want to feel
    Like I did that day
    Take me to the place I love
    Take me all the way, yeah
    Yeah, yeah

    It’s hard to believe that there’s nobody out there
    It’s hard to believe that I’m all alone
    At least I have her love, the city, she loves me
    Lonely as I am, together we cry

    Well, I don’t ever want to feel
    Like I did that day
    Take me to the place I love
    Take me all the way

    Well, I don’t ever want to feel
    Like I did that day
    Take me to the place I love
    Take me all the way, yeah
    Yeah, yeah
    Oh, no, no, no
    Yeah, yeah
    Love me, I said
    Yeah, yeah

    One time

    Under the bridge downtown
    Is where I drew some blood
    Under the bridge downtown
    I could not get enough
    Under the bridge downtown
    Forgot about my love
    Under the bridge downtown
    I gave my life away, yeah

    Yeah, yeah
    Oh, no, no, no
    Yeah, yeah
    Love me, I said
    Yeah, yeah

    Will I stay?

  • 16. POUR L’HONNEUR (LIVING OUT MY DREAMS French version)*

    Voici venu le moment que j’attends depuis toujours
    Donner mon corps et mon âme dans un hymne à l’amour
    Et que le meilleur en moi puisse enfin trouver sa voie

    Attends-toi au meilleur
    J’en fais foi sur mon cœur
    Rien ne saura m’arrêter d’y croire
    Attends-toi au meilleur
    À revenir vainqueur
    Devant toi, plus haut, plus loin, plus fort

    Je te promets de tout donner, de ne rien cacher
    Dans la joie, le courage, et la force de l’humilité
    Que tes Yeux plein d’espoir, témoignent de ma victoire

    Attends-toi au meilleur
    J’en fais foi sur mon cœur
    Rien ne saura m’arrêter d’y croire
    Attends-toi au meilleur
    À revenir vainqueur
    Sous tes yeux, plus haut, plus loin, plus fort

    Pour l’honneur, moi j’ai donné ma vie
    J’ai en moi un désir infini

    Attends-toi au meilleur
    À des rêves en couleur
    Attends-toi de vivre encore plus fort
    Attends-toi au meilleur
    À revenir vainqueur
    Devant toi, plus haut, plus loin, plus fort

  • Credits

    Photos by Krissi Campbell / Assistant: Nick Mirus
    Stylist: Conrad Nadeau
    Make Up: Soraya Qadi
    Artwork: S.P.I.N.-Montreal: Jean-Charles Labarre, Marlène Cogez
    Project Coordinator: Simon Rayner for Sony Music Canada
    Mastering: Marc Thériaul, Marc-Olivier Bouchard at LeLab (Montreal)

    Special Thanks to…
    Marcel Aubut, Chris Overholt, Derek Kent, Shane Carter, Thiago Kurtz, Simon Rayner,Madeleine Careau,
    Kent Nagano, Marc Ouellette, Dean Landon, Anika Paris, Lea Ivanne, Diane Pinet at BlocNotes,
    Luc Thibaudeau, Michel Bérubé, Isabelle Fortier, Maryse Mathieu, Anne Vivien, Chad Carlson,
    Tom Lord-Alge, Pierre Raiche (our webmaster), Martine Laforce (press and publicity),
    Dany Legendre and Guy Tourville