Dar Williams The Blessings Lyrics

The Blessings Lyrics




If you're gonna get your heart broke, you better do it just right, 
It's
gotta be raining,a nd you gotta move your stuff that night, 
And the only
friend you can reach isn't a good friend at all, 
And you know when he says
"Now who dumped who?" that you never should have made that call.


I had the blessings, there's nobody there, there's nobody home,

Yeah the blessings, at the moment I was most alone 
And aimless as a
fulltime fool, the joke was on me, 
I got all those birds flying off of that
tree, and that'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 said, "Here have some coffee, it's straight, black
and very old," 
And they gave me sticks and rocks and stars and all
that I could hold, 

I had the blessings, a moment of peace even when the
night ends, 
Yeah the blessings, can 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 mile, the 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 I'm getting the
answers, when I don't need them anymore, 
I'm finding the pictures, and I
finally know what I kept them for, 
I remember, I can see them, see them
smiling, see them stuck, 
See them try, I wish them luck and all the
blessings. 

I was fast asleep at three in the morning when I got the
payphone call, 
And she said, "Did I wake you up," I said,
"Hey, no, not at all." 
And she said, "I got this suitcase
and I don't know what to pack," 
And I said, "You can take
anything you want, just wait and see, 
It's not a release, not a reward,
it's the blessings, 
Its the gift of what you notice more," 
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 smiling, see them stuck, 
See them try, I wish them luck
and all the blessings.