Tiff Jimber

This new town drives me crazy
The traffic brings me down
They call it a big time city
But the people are too spread out

I miss the real crowded city streets
Rush the clock got to find you beat
Summer air is full of pizza
Swimmin’ by me in the heat

I’m so far away
From a comfort I understood
If I could hear you say
Come on home,
Babe you know I would

Oh, city life
I want you back
Is this where I belong
Or did I fall off track
Oh city boy
Don’t you leave me here
Where no one hears your screams
In a town full of angels
Crowded by dreams

I miss the changing colors
The trees swayin’ in the park
The met the fens and all the others
Finding love baby after dark

Surrounded by so many buildings
Life drying in the alleyways
The bus and oh the subway
Take me back to those better days

I knew that you
You would be the one
To skin me of all that I love

I was the one
The one who set them free
Till you brought me down to my knees

Close your eyes baby it’s long over due
Oh now who really thinks
Lustful thoughts through

Some say that dreams
Are just another view
Of all that is known and comes true.


I built a world
around everything I saw
ignoring all of the flaws

I knew that times
Was constant and smart
And would obviously
Claw us apart


I knew that you
You would be the one
to skin me of all that I love.

Leaving on another midnight flight
On a redeye to L.A.
My arms are open but you’re
Out of reach
It’s always the same.

The sun goes down
And I come unwound
Waiting for a call form you.
This flame is fading
And I am burning through.

Come on
Come on


You say you do it for love
But what about me
You say you do it because
It’s the life that you need

I’m feeling left behind
And I’m starting to see
That I’m not the love the love the love
The love that you need


I got plans
My own story to tell
Can’t put life on hold for you
You’ll think I’ll stick around
But I got to leave
It’s long over due

Second chances are all used up
I’ve been patient for too long
Something’s got to give
Far away ain’t no way to live


Come on come on

So long
So hard is the distance
Come back
Give me no resistance
But then you leave
And you do it again
Do it again
Over and over again

Back and forth with you
Changing these feelings for you
Every time
When they make their moves
I run just to wait in line

After the others don’t seem
So new you say
Baby you are mine
This game we play
Has no finish line


I must love
The chase
The way
That you hold the ball
To my face
Don't matter how far you throw this love
away
I'll bring it back to you

Hard days long nights
Every week for
This love of mine
Nothing to show but loosing streaks
And oh well, Maybe next time

Just when I think
That we’ve made some progress
You hold my head under water
Can you play just a little less
Can you wait a little longer

Keep testing my patience
How much more can a girl
Take this


Why do you waste all this time
To build up your defense
You know I’ll break down your layers

How long
How long
How long

Setting out again
Chasing roads that never end

Yearning never dies
Long as the music flows and I

Keep burning
Burning at both ends
I keep burning
Burning at both ends


Some days aren’t so great
Goin’ no where at this rate

Other nights are the best
Pieces fit, pass another test


I know what I want
But where to find it is the never ending puzzle

I know what I need
A break in the embers so I can breathe

Tell me why do you
hide behind your man baby?
Scared to use your will
Who knows if you can maybe

You're terrified to see
Or lack the skill
To live the life you know you need
So you'll just sit real still

Stand up on your own two feet
Make something of yourself go on and
Prove it to me
Your crippled back bone isn't so weak
Can't support yourself
Cause you're so blind and naive

You hide you hide behind your man
You hide

He’s been in your life
For quite a while
He’s your boring comfort and everything
When love’s lacking you
Obey and smile
Tethered to his cockring

He’ll provide for you
Yes daddy pays your bills
That seems to suit you
A leach without a will

He confessed to your friends
That’s he’s unsatisfied
When you sleep upstairs
Daddy’s not by your side
He says that he can’t promise
To be true
And you accept that
Cause what’s a poor girl to do?

Your fairy tale bubble has sunck
To the floor
I wish I could catch you but I
Can’t anymore
Can’t leave your place in society
Being on your own
Baby cry to free

Saturday in the park
I think it was the fourth of july
Saturday in the park
I think it was the fourth of july
People dancing, people laughing
A man selling ice cream
Singing italian songs
(fake italian lyric)
Can you dig it (yes, I can)
And Ive been waiting such a long time
For saturday

Saturday in the park
Youd think it was the fourth of july
Saturday in the park
Youd think it was the fourth of july
People talking, really smiling
A man playing guitar
Singing for us all
Will you help him change the world
Can you dig it (yes, I can)
And Ive been waiting such a long time
For today

Slow motion riders fly the colors of the day
A bronze man still can tell stories his own way
Listen children all is not lost
All is not lost

Funny days in the park
Every days the fourth of july
Funny days in the park
Every days the fourth of july
People reaching, people touching
A real celebration
Waiting for us all
If we want it, really want it
Can you dig it (yes, I can)
And Ive been waiting such a long time
For the day

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