The Blessings - Dar Williams

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.