Take It Home (Tom Cochrane album)

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Take It Home
Tom Cochrane Take It Home Album Cover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 10, 2015
Recordedat Metalworks Studios in Mississauga, Ontario
Genre Rock
Length43:51
Label Universal
Producer Tom Cochrane
Tom Cochrane chronology
No Stranger
(2006)
Take It Home
(2015)
Singles from Take It Home
  1. "Sunday Afternoon Hang"
    Released: 2015
  2. "Diamonds"
    Released: 2015

Take It Home is Canadian singer Tom Cochrane's sixth solo studio album and second album for his Universal Music Canada, released on February 10, 2015. Cochrane wrote all of the album with the exception of Sunday Afternoon Hang which he co-wrote with Danielle Bourjeaurd.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Tom Cochrane unless otherwise noted

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Can't Stay Here" 3:40
2."Sunday Afternoon Hang"Cochrane, Danielle Bourjeaurd3:47
3."Diamonds" 3:54
4."Country Girls Never Get Old" 4:25
5."When The Light Starts To Fade" 3:36
6."Pink Time" 5:47
7."First Time Around" 3:38
8."The Ones I've Known" 4:24
9."Another Year" 3:10
10."A Prayer For Hope" 4:27
11."Back In The Game" 3:11

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