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 [00:09.32]Yeah there was a time I didn't like the love [00:12.09]I liked the climbers [00:13.33]I was no sister then [00:14.52]I was running out of time and one liners [00:17.38] [00:18.49]And I was afraid like you are [00:20.51]When you're too young to know the time [00:22.70]And so I watch the way [00:24.62]You take your fear and horde the horizon [00:26.68] [00:27.26]You point you have a word for every woman [00:29.62]You can lay your eyes on [00:31.08] [00:32.20]Like you own them [00:33.44]Just because you bought the time [00:34.82] [00:36.16]And you turn to me [00:37.54] [00:38.06]You say you hope I'm not threatened [00:41.56]Oh I'm not that petty [00:44.80] [00:45.39]As cool as I am [00:46.44] [00:46.95]I thought you'd know this already [00:48.69] [00:49.24]I will not be afraid of women [00:52.73] [00:53.27]I will not be afraid of women [00:56.64] [01:05.05]So now we're at a club [01:06.52]You watch the woman dancing she is drunk [01:09.06]She is smiling [01:09.95]And she's falling in a slow descending funk [01:12.61] [01:14.35]And the whole bar is loud [01:15.97]And proud and everybody's trying yeah [01:18.10] [01:18.80]You play the artist saying [01:20.77]Is it how she moves or how she looks [01:22.99]I say it's loneliness [01:24.39]Suspended to our own like grappling hooks [01:27.25] [01:28.28]And as long as she's got noise she's fine [01:30.81] [01:32.29]But I could teach her [01:34.41]How I learned to dance when the music's ended [01:38.85] [01:39.44]Oh and that's not petty [01:42.74] [01:43.47]As cool as I am [01:44.96]I thought you'd know this already [01:46.71] [01:47.39]I will not be afraid of women [01:50.83] [01:51.34]I will not be afraid of women [01:54.63] [02:02.03]You tried to make me doubt [02:04.25]To make me guess [02:05.96]Tried to make me feel like a little less [02:09.95]Oh I liked you when your soul was bared [02:14.02]I thought you knew how to be scared [02:17.96]And now it's amazing [02:19.02]What you did to make me stay [02:20.65] [02:22.21]But truth is just like time [02:25.11]It catches up and it just keeps going [02:28.92] [02:31.10]And so I'm leaving you can find out [02:33.48]How much better things can get [02:34.94]And if it helps [02:36.07]I'd say I feel a little worse than I did when we met [02:38.94] [02:40.43]So when you find someone else [02:42.44]You can try again it might work next time [02:44.41] [02:44.92]You look out of the kitchen window [02:47.02]And you shake your head and say low [02:49.23]If I could believe that stuff [02:51.00]I'd say that woman has a halo [02:52.88] [02:54.28]And I look out and say [02:55.64]Yeah she's really blonde [02:56.79] [02:58.27]And then I go outside to join the others [03:03.51]I am the others [03:05.46]Oh and that's not easy [03:08.66] [03:09.34]I don't know what you saw [03:10.86]I want somebody who sees me [03:12.86] [03:13.42]I will not be afraid of women [03:16.65] [03:17.28]I will not be afraid of women