The Blessings Lyrics - Dar Williams

If you're gonna get your heart broke, you better do it just right 

It's gotta be raining and 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 full time fool, the joke was on me 

I got all those birds flying off of that tree, 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 I 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 street lamp 

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 

It's like 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 pay phone 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, it's not a reward, it's the blessings 

It's 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