"As Slow As I Am"
lyrics by Benjamin Newman
ttto: "As Cool As I Am" by Dar Williams

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Out here on a limb, I've never been a swinger, I'm a climber
Metro Zoo, Jungle World, hanging out with all the lianas
Then one day I saw you there in the enclosure next to mine
And so I watched the way you'd swing out into space with abandon
As if you knew there'd be another branch for you to lay your hand on
Like you own the jungle canopy for sure
And if kids wish they could swing like that, I'm not threatened, whoa...

	I'm not that speedy, as slow as I am, I know the zoo's gonna to feed me
	I will not be afraid of gibbons, I will not be afraid of gibbons

The children at the zoo see something like a tattered dirty cloth
And the zoo docent says, you're looking at a slow descending sloth
And the school kids are trying hard to ask a clever question like:
There's something weird about her, is it how she moves or how she looks?
The docent says, see, she's suspended from her tree by grappling hooks
Then the kids march on like ants along a vine
They look at you and dream they too could fly with their arms extended, whoa...

	I'm not that speedy, as slow as I am, I want somebody to need me
	I will not be afraid of gibbons, I will not be afraid of gibbons

		There's a little girl, eyes full of tears, trapped within the jungle of her fears
		If she doesn't want to swing and all, maybe it's 'cause she's afraid to fall
		Isn't there supposed to be an animal in there?
		But all she sees are vines and twigs and leaves, still she just keeps looking, whoa...

And what she doesn't see reveals another way to cope with loss
Sit very still and dissappear behind the color of moss
Then it starts to rain a bit, and gradually, I start to move
And as she's watching me slowly crawl in out of the weather 
She knows she too can hang in tight and wait for things to get better
She looks down and sees her classmates moving on
And then she runs along to join the others, we are the others

	I might not be speedy, but slow as I am, I'm glad that somebody sees me
	I will not be afraid of gibbons, I will not be afraid of gibbons