Being Cool Lyrics - Singles - Kimya Dawson

is new york city really like a graveyard they all ask me 

and i say well it was last week but man that was in the past 

see i stopped going to the places where the people act so nasty 

and pretentious 'cause i'm happy sitting with my friends in sidewalk singing songs 

and some people are still standing in the way of where i'm going 

so i say please excuse me, step aside, or keep on moving 

and i guess they sensed that my momentum meant that i was winning 

but i'm only just beginning and i'd rather go with friends than go alone 

and some people grab my hands and some people grab my shirt 

some people race ahead to see if they can get there first 

some people stay behind 'cause they've got something else in mind 

whatever you decide if you are true to you you're gonna be alright 

like akida he's a father now he is in love with amber 

their baby's name is skyler he's a baby of the summer 

i wonder as i wander if i'll ever settle down 

or if every day i'll take my roots uprooted en route to another town 

i was sitting on a couch somewhere watching vh-1 

when i found out that bruce springsteen is his mother's only son 

i'm my mother's only daughter and we were both born to run 

even he says it's amazing raising babies in the place where you come from 

but i am a rock tumbler i've got rocks inside my head 

and just because they come out shining doesn't mean that they are diamonds 

and i guess that my worst nightmare is your very favorite bar 

when i'm worth my weight in shale and slate i'll know that i'm a super duper star 

i'll be a great big ball of burning gas and i'll be sitting on my big fat ass 

sipping cristal light beside a plastic wading pool 

and the next day i'll be somewhere else part of me will hate myself 

part of me will know deep down that i am pretty cool 

the part of me that knows i never cared for being cool 

the part of me that knows i never cared for being cool 

the part of me that knows i never cared for being cool