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