as cool as i am
yeah, there was a time, i didnt' live the love, i liked the
clibers. i was no sister then, i was running out of time and
one liners. and i was afraid, like you are when
yr too young to know the time, and so i watch the way you
take yr fear and hoard the horizon. you point, you
have a word for every womyn you can lay yr eyes on. like
you own them just because you bought the time. and you
turn to me, and you say you hope i'm not threatened.
oh-i'm not that petty, as cool as i am, i thought you'd kow
this already. i will not be afraid of womyn, i will not be
afraid of womyn
so now we're at a club, you watch the
womyn 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 everyone is trying, yeah. you play the artist,
saying "is it how she moves, or how she looks?" i say its
lonliness, suspended to our own like grappling hooks. as long as
she's got noise, she's fine. but i could teach her how i leanred
to dance when the music's ended.
chorus
you tried to make me doubt, to make me guess, tried to make
me feel like a little less. oh, i liked you when yr soul was
bared, i thought you knew how to be scared. and now its
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 osmeone else, you can try again,
and it might work next time. you look out of the kitchen window
and you shake yr head and say low "if i could beleive that
stuff, i'd say that womyn has a halo". and i look out and say
"yeah, she's really blonde". and then i go outside to join the
others. i am the others.
oh and that's not easy, i dont know
what you saw, i want somebody who sees me. i will not be
afraid of womyn, i will not be afraid of womyn.
