As Cool as I Am-Dar Williams

[ti:As Cool As I Am] [ar:Dar Williams] [al:Mortal City] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]As Cool as I Am - Dar Williams [00:09.29]Yeah there was a time I didn't like the love [00:12.06]I liked the climbers [00:13.30]I was no sister then [00:14.49]I was running out of time and one liners [00:17.35] [00:18.46]And I was afraid like you are [00:20.48]When you're too young to know the time [00:22.67]And so I watch the way [00:24.59]You take your fear and horde the horizon [00:26.65] [00:27.23]You point you have a word for every woman [00:29.59]You can lay your eyes on [00:31.05] [00:32.17]Like you own them [00:33.41]Just because you bought the time [00:34.79] [00:36.13]And you turn to me [00:37.51] [00:38.03]You say you hope I'm not threatened [00:41.53]Oh I'm not that petty [00:44.77] [00:45.36]As cool as I am [00:46.41] [00:46.92]I thought you'd know this already [00:48.66] [00:49.21]I will not be afraid of women [00:52.70] [00:53.24]I will not be afraid of women [00:56.61] [01:05.02]So now we're at a club [01:06.49]You watch the woman dancing she is drunk [01:09.03]She is smiling [01:09.92]And she's falling in a slow descending funk [01:12.58] [01:14.32]And the whole bar is loud [01:15.94]And proud and everybody's trying yeah [01:18.07] [01:18.77]You play the artist saying [01:20.74]Is it how she moves or how she looks [01:22.96]I say it's loneliness [01:24.36]Suspended to our own like grappling hooks [01:27.22] [01:28.25]And as long as she's got noise she's fine [01:30.78] [01:32.26]But I could teach her [01:34.38]How I learned to dance when the music's ended [01:38.82] [01:39.41]Oh and that's not petty [01:42.71] [01:43.44]As cool as I am [01:44.93]I thought you'd know this already [01:46.68] [01:47.36]I will not be afraid of women [01:50.80] [01:51.31]I will not be afraid of women [01:54.60] [02:02.00]You tried to make me doubt [02:04.22]To make me guess [02:05.93]Tried to make me feel like a little less [02:09.92]Oh I liked you when your soul was bared [02:13.99]I thought you knew how to be scared [02:17.93]And now it's amazing [02:18.99]What you did to make me stay [02:20.62] [02:22.18]But truth is just like time [02:25.08]It catches up and it just keeps going [02:28.89] [02:31.07]And so I'm leaving you can find out [02:33.45]How much better things can get [02:34.91]And if it helps [02:36.04]I'd say I feel a little worse than I did when we met [02:38.91] [02:40.40]So when you find someone else [02:42.41]You can try again it might work next time [02:44.38] [02:44.89]You look out of the kitchen window [02:46.99]And you shake your head and say low [02:49.20]If I could believe that stuff [02:50.97]I'd say that woman has a halo [02:52.85] [02:54.25]And I look out and say [02:55.61]Yeah she's really blonde [02:56.76] [02:58.24]And then I go outside to join the others [03:03.48]I am the others [03:05.43]Oh and that's not easy [03:08.63] [03:09.31]I don't know what you saw [03:10.83]I want somebody who sees me [03:12.83] [03:13.39]I will not be afraid of women [03:16.62] [03:17.25]I will not be afraid of women