College Girl Lyrics - Dar Williams

I'm not a leader 

I'm not a left-wing,rehtoric, 

mobilizing force of one 

But but there was a time way back 

many years ago in college 

Don't laugh 

but I thought I was a radical 

I ran a hemp liberation league with my boyfriend 

It was true love with a common cause 

and besides that he was a sagittarius 

We used to say that our love was like hemp rope 

three times as strong as the rope that you buy domesticly 

we would bond in the face of oppression from big business 

and the Deans 

But I knew there was a problem 

every time the group would meet 

everyone would light up 

It made it difficult to discuss glaucoma and human rights, 

not to mention chemotherapy 

Well, sometimes life gives us lessons 

sent in ridiculous packaging 

So I found him in the arms of a "student 

against the treacherous use of fur" 

And he gave no apology 

He just turned to me stoned out to the edge of oblivion 

He didn't pull up the sheets and I think he even smiled 

as the said to me: (spoken) 

-Well, I guess our dreams went up in smoke.....Huhuh 

-and I said: 

-No, our dreams went up in dreams....you stupid pot-head 

And another thing 

What kind of a name is "students 

against the treacherous use of fur" 

Fur is already dead and besides 

a name like that doesn't make a good acronym 

I am older now 

I know the rise and gradual fall of a daily victory 

And I still write to my Senators saying they should 

legalize cannabis and I should know 

'Cause I am a horticulturist 

I have a husband and two children out in Lexington, Mass. 

And my ex-boyfriend can't tell me I've sold out 

Because he's in a cult 

and he's not allowed to talk to me.....