As Cool as I Am Chords & Lyrics by Dar Williams
As Cool as I Am
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C G/B Am F x2 C
G/B Am F C
Yea, there was a time I didn't like the love, I liked the climbers,
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I was no brother then, I was running out of time and one liners,
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And I was afraid, like you are when you're too young to know the time, and
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So I watched the way you take your fear and hoard the horizon,
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You point, you have a word for every woman you can lay your eyes on,
G Em
Like you own them just because you bought the time,
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And you turn to me, you say you hope I'm not threatened,
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Oh, I'm not that petty, as cool as I am, I thought you'd know this already,
C G/B Am F C F (C G/B Am F) x2
I will not be afraid of women, I will not be afraid of women.
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So now we're at a club, you watch the woman dancing, she is drunk,
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She is smiling and she's falling in a slow, descending funk,
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And the whole bar is loud and proud and everybody's trying, yeah.
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You play the artist, saying, "Is it how she moves, or how she looks?"
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I say, it's loneliness suspended to our own like grappling hooks,
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And as long as she's got noise, she's fine.
F NC
But I could teach her how I learned to dance when the music's ended,
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Oh, and that's not petty, as cool as I am, I thought you'd know this already,
C G/B Am F C F (C G/B Am F) x2
I will not be afraid of women, I will not be afraid of women.
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You tried to make me doubt, to make me guess, tried to make me feel like a little less,
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Oh, I like'd you when your soul was bared, I thought you knew how to be scared,
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And now it's amazing what you did to make me stay,
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But truth is just like time, it catches up and it just keeps going,
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And so I'm leaving, you can find out how much better things can get,
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And if it helps, I'd say I feel a little worse than I did when we met,
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So when you find someone else, you can try again, it might work next time,
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You look out of the kitchen window and you shake your head and say low,
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"If I could believe that stuff, I'd say that woman has a halo,"
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And I look out and say, "Yeah, she's really blonde,"
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And then I go outside to join the others, I am the others,
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Oh, and that's not easy, I don't know what you saw, I want somebody who sees me,
C G/B Am F C F (C G/B Am F) x2 C
I will not be afraid of women, I will not be afraid of women.
