As Cool As I Am Lyrics - Many Great Companions - Dar Williams

Yeah, there was a time I didn't like the love, I liked the climbers 

I was no sister then, I was 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 watched the way, you take your fear and hoard 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 

And you turn to me, you say you hope I'm not threatened 

Oh, I am 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's trying, yeah 

You 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 liked 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 things 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 it 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 and join to 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