Tiff Jimber

I’m stripped down naked
Standing in your room
You’re bundled up
I’m waiting for a glimpse of you

It’s always like this
I bare my soul all the time
Your mouth is shut tight
So is your mind

We seem too different
One open one closed
This is our story and
The way that it goes

I’ll forget the words
That you never say
I’m starting to see
This is how it’s gonna’ be
To be loved
We all compromise
And you conform to me
Sometimes
We fit
Perfectly

You’re always hot and
I’m striving for your heat
You say I talk too much
I never miss a beat

I’m ready to fall apart
You frustrate me to extremes
You put your hands on me pull
Tight at the seams

I can’t change you
You can’t change me and I’d
Never want to anyways
These things I now know
Yes I can see
You’ll covet your heart
Away from me

Push Pull
Run away
Don’t want to see you face
Please don’t go away
Push Pull
Run away
Don’t want to see your face
Please don’t go away

Amanda I was thinking yesterday
You're like a bug attracted to the disco light
Fast nights and slow days

A hard reality with your life spinning around
Everyday lost in the haze

Amanda you don't seem to care
So tell me why tell me why should I
I'm loosing all hope letting go of your rope
Waving bye by by
You don't seem to care
So tell me why should I?

You're falling hard like rain upon the street
And when the sun dries you up
Nothing's clean
You're never neat

Everyone has rinsed you off of his or her hands
You say that you can't find help
But I reach for you
As you sink into the sand

You need to love yourself
Cause you're worth everything
Don't listen to anybody else

You need to love yourself
Cause you're worth everything
Don't listen to anybody else

Well the lights in this room
Don't work and there's a fly on the floor

In the alley crazy's are scream'
and my neighbor just slammed his car door.

I hear all these sounds in my garage down stairs
If the people are asleep
when I sing, nobody cares.

Keep pressn' on
working to my limit till my limit is gone
Grabbn' for every step
wondering if it's worth it
and who will use me next
keep makn' my moves
waiting for the shot
where I know I can prove
that I'll keep givn' it all that I got
till the day that I loose


Well this room it has no windows
But two large automatic doors

In the winter with the snow fall
you know that I almost froze

But my smile it last
for months at a time
and one day I'll make my money
when I sell all these rhymes.


Keep pressn' on
working to my limit till my limit is gone
Grabbn' for every step
wondering if it's worth it
and who will use me next
keep makn' my moves
waiting for the shot
where I know I can prove
that I'll keep givn' it all that I got
till the day that I loose

Another day and the sun sets in your room
Sifting through your things my thoughts are consumed.
Why do we have to get ill?
Why the drugs just to make us happy?
Why your bottle of pills?
And the cancer in your belly?


I thought I hated you for so many years
Now I can't stop crying all of these tears.
Thought that I'd be happy to see you leave
Now I know you're someone that I really do need.
Death of your presence is loneness that I can not bare.


It was easy to hate you you were always
There, there, there
Oh so easy to hate you
You were always ....there.


And you call on the phone and wonder what is goin' on
You tell me 'bout your day and moan to cover the pain
I can feel your disease on the end of the line
You say the sound of my voice is all that makes you smile


Don't haunt me let me be
I can feel you at my side
Don't haunt me let me be
You have a hold of my life


You always made it so easy to hate you
You were there, there, there
You were there, there, there
You were always there, there, there, there, there
There, there, there, there.

He slammed the door in silence left her staring at a wall
She shouted her final word
They bowed their last curtain call.


Caught her in the street to say, “ Babe I was wrong”
Both spoke out in silence
A cat’s game was the call


They walked further towards the brick wall.


They made their way to the corner store
Where they stood face to face
Neither one saw the sadness in the other’s eyes.
A brick wall had grown where there once was love
Now stood strong and tall


And they walked away
And they walked away
And they walked away
From the brick wall.


There’s always obstacles to climb
No one there to catch your fall.


Do you think of me when you’re lonely in your room?
Cause you’re crampn’ up my brain
Nothing else can get through
Every now and then
I think I see you up ahead.
But it’s never what I hoped for
Wishing you were there instead
And I know you’re better off
On your side
Said I know you’re better off on your side
I know you’re better off on your side
I know you’re better off on your side


Of the brick wall

Knew you for six years
Met you on a California day
You were from Michigan
You were so kind

And when camp was over
We promised we would write
You traveled the world
You saw all the sights

I caught up on where you'd been
You saw the great wall
The jungles of Thailand
The Brooklyn Bridge
You say it all

I have a gig next week, aren't you gonna come?

You're home was in the hills with the stars
Mine at the world famous zoo
And we'd jam for hours
When you drove on through

I still have your books
I play every while
How little they were worth
Now they're all I have

I have a gig next week, aren't you gonna come?

You loved music you wouldn't let it die
You loved animals converted to vegan
While I ordered a steak
With a side of fries

I saw you at the cafe
I sat by the fire
And you strummed all of my tunes
And you came to see me play in the smoke filled rooms

I have a gig next week, aren't you gonna come?

I don't believe that you died
I hear you playing They Might Be Giants
"I am the entertainer, and I know just where I stand."

You're not dead
You're still here
You're not dead
Aren't you still here?

You're not dead, I don't believe no,
You're still here
You're not dead, aren’t you still here?

I have a gig next week, aren't you gonna come???

I left the office with the faces that made it
The prison I the refugee
I tried my best but I couldn’t fake it
The straight and narrow path isn't meant to be

So what if I'm not
who I thought I was supposed to be
So what if I'm not
Who I thought I was supposed to be
Will you still love me?

Graduate now you need a job
Cause everybody else has something
Make your way up the social ladder
But in the end does it matter

When at night
You collapse in bed
Close your eyes and admit defeat
Despise yourself
What you've become
What you could be

How quickly a life plan can change
Everything that you ever hoped for
You stand up and you rearrange
Move on
Stronger than before



who I was
who I was
who I was

It's been a while since I've spoken' words so true
Skated on your body of ice
Fell straight through

Now I realize the mistake that I have made
Given' to a boy
But given' to late


I'm gone
And there's no one in my place
I'd never wish this on you
But I'm gone, gone, gone
And there's nothing you can do for a girl that loves you
But is gone
I am gone

You never wished for this
We both knew I'd have to leave
Like changes in the wind
I'd blow away like a leaf

I guess we pushed
Reality underneath the rug
Crawled into the comfortable
Left the rest up to luck

I wouldn't take a second back
It was all worth the world
I'd give anything
just to stay here and be your girl