Dar Williams As Cool As I Am Lyrics

As Cool As I Am Lyrics

Yeah there was a time I didn't like the love, I liked the climbers, I was no
sister then, running out of time and one-liners. And I was afraid, like you are
when you're too young to know the time, and so I watch the way you take your
fear and horde the horizon. You point, you have a word for every woman you can
lay your eyes on. Like you own them just because you bought the time. You turn
to me, you say you hope I'm not threatened.
oh-I'm not that petty, as cool
as I am, I thought you'd know this already, I will not be afraid of women, I
will not be afraid of women.
So now we're at a club, you watch the woman
dancing, she is drunk, she is smiling and she's falling in a slow, descending
funk, and the whole bar is loud and proud and everybody trying, yeah, to play
the artist, saying 'is it how she moves or how she looks?' I say it's
loneliness suspended to our own like grappling hooks. And as long as she's got
noise, she's fine. But I could teach her how I learned to dance when the
music's ended.
Oh-and that's not petty, as cool as I am, I thought you'd
know this already, I will not be afraid of women, I will not be afraid of
women.
You tried to make me doubt, to make me guess, tried to make me feel
like a little less, oh, I like you when your soul was bared, I thought you knew
how to be scared. And now it's amazing what you did to make me stay, but truth
is just like time it catches up and it just keeps going
And so I'm leaving,
you can find out how much better it can get, and if it helps, I'd say I feel a
little worse than I did when we met. So when you find someone else, you can try
again, might work next time. You look out of the kitchen window, and you shake
your head and say low, "If I could believe that stuff, I'd say that woman has a
halo." And I look out and say "yeah, she's really blond." And then I go outside
to join the others, I am the others
Oh-and that's not easy, I don't know
what you saw, I want somebody who sees me, I will not be afraid of women, I
will not be afraid of women.