Dar Williams - As Cool as I Am lyrics

Yeathere was a time I didnt like the loveI liked the climbers

I was no sister thenI was running out of time and one liners

And I was afraidlike you are when you're too young to know the timeand

So I watched the way you take your fear and hoard the horizon

You pointyou have a word for every woman you can lay your eyes on

Like you own them just because you bought the time

And you turn to meyou say you hope I'm not threatened

Oh -- I'm not that pettyas cool as I amI thought youd know this already

I will not be afraid of womenI will not be afraid of women.

So now were at a clubyou watch the woman dancingshe is drunk

She is smiling and she's falling in a slowdescending funk

And the whole bar is loud and proud and everybodys tryingyeah.

You play the artistsaying'is it how she movesor how she looks? '

I sayit's loneliness suspended to our own like grappling hooks

And as long as she's got noiseshe's fine.

But I could teach her how I learned to dance when the musics ended

Oh -- and thats not pettyas cool as I amI thought youd know this already

I will not be afraid of womenI will not be afraid of women.

You tried to make me doubtto make me guesstried to make me feel like a little less

OhI liked you when your soul was baredI thought you knew how to be scared

And now it's amazing what you did to make me stay

But truth is just like timeit catches up and it just keeps going

And so I'm leavingyou can find out how much better things can get

And if it helpsI'd say I feel a little worse than I did when we met

So when you find someone elseyou can try againit might work next time

You look out of the kitchen window and you shake your head and say low

'if I could believe that stuffI'd say that woman has a halo'

And I look out and say'yeahshe's really blond'

And then I go outside and join the othersI am the others

Oh -- and thats not easyI don't know what you sawI want somebody who sees me

I will not be afraid of womenI will not be afraid of women.