Lyrics The Blessings - Dar Williams

The Blessings

If youЂ™re gonna get your heart brokeyou better do it just right
ItЂ™s gotta be raininga nd you gotta move your stuff that night
And the only friend you can reach isnЂ™t a good friend at all
And you know when he says Ђ™now who dumped who?
Ђ™ that you never should have
made
That call.
I had the blessingsthereЂ™s nobody therethereЂ™s nobody home
Yeah the blessingsat the moment I was most alone
And aimless as a fulltime foolthe joke was on me
I got all those birds flying off of that treeand thatЂ™s a blessing.
And the blessings were like poets that we never find time to know
But when time stopped I found the place where the poets go.
And they saidЂ™here have some coffeeitЂ™s straightblack and very oldЂ™
And they gave me sticks and rocks and stars and all that I could hold
I had the blessingsa moment of peace even when the night ends
Yeah the blessingscan we meet?
can we meet again
At the crossroads of disaster and the imperfect smile
With the angel in the streetlamp that blinks on as I walk on a milethe
blessings.
And the best ones were the ones I got to keep as I grew strong
And the days that opened up until my whole life could belong
And now IЂ™m getting the answerswhen I donЂ™t need them anymore
IЂ™m finding the picturesand I finally know what I kept them for
I rememberI can see themsee them smilingsee them stuck
See them tryI wish them luck and all the blessings.
I was fast asleep at three in the morning when I got the payphone call
And she saidЂ™did I wake you upЂ™ I saidЂ™heynonot at all.Ђ™
And she saidЂ™i got this suitcase and I donЂ™t know what to packЂ™
And I saidЂ™you can take anything you wantjust wait and see
ItЂ™s not a releasenot a rewarditЂ™s the blessings
Its the gift of what you notice moreЂ™
And I walked out and I watched her kick the big pile of the night
And we sat down and we waited for that strange and empty light.
Yeah the blessings…
See them smilingsee them stuck
See them tryI wish them luck and all the blessings.