The Blessings-Dar Williams

[ti:The Blessings] [ar:Dar Williams] [al:Mortal City] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]The Blessings - Dar Williams [00:00.02]Written by：Dar William [00:00.04] [00:11.98]If you're gonna get your heart broke you better do it just right [00:15.76] [00:16.56]It's gotta be raining and you gotta move your stuff that night [00:20.89] [00:21.42]And the only friend you can reach isn't a good friend at all [00:26.99] [00:28.33]And you know when he says "Now who dumped who " [00:31.02]That you never should have made that call [00:33.03] [00:35.38]I had the blessings there's nobody there there's nobody home [00:38.50] [00:39.30]Yeah the blessings at the moment I was most alone [00:43.82] [00:44.87]And aimless as a full time fool the joke was on me [00:48.60] [00:49.34]I got all those birds flying off of that tree that's a blessing [00:55.25] [01:06.20]And the blessings were like poets that we never find time to know [01:10.07] [01:11.32]But when time stopped I found the place where the poets go [01:15.01] [01:17.60]And I said "Here have some coffee it's straight black and very old" [01:21.73] [01:22.57]And they gave me sticks and rocks and stars and all that I could hold [01:26.53] [01:27.21]I had the blessings a moment of peace even when the night ends [01:32.31]Yeah the blessings can we meet Can we meet again [01:36.92] [01:37.75]At the crossroads of disaster and the imperfect smile [01:41.70] [01:42.73]With the angel in the street lamp [01:44.53] [01:45.07]That blinks on as I walk on a mile the blessings [01:48.49] [01:59.27]And the best ones were the ones I got to keep as I grew strong [02:03.06] [02:03.84]And the days that opened up until my whole life could belong [02:07.79] [02:09.98]It's like getting the answers when I don't need them anymore [02:14.22] [02:15.18]I'm finding the pictures and I finally know what I kept them for [02:20.35]I remember I can see them see them smiling see them stuck [02:28.50] [02:29.04]See them try I wish them luck and all the blessings [02:33.04] [02:43.37]I was fast asleep at three in the morning when I got the pay phone call [02:48.36]And she said "Did I wake you up" I said "Hey no not at all" [02:52.50] [02:54.79]And she said "I got this suitcase and I don't know what to pack" [02:58.66] [02:59.77]And I said "You can take anything you want just wait and see [03:07.19] [03:08.20]It's not a release it's not a reward it's the blessings [03:11.50] [03:13.26]It's the gift of what you notice more" [03:15.45] [03:16.30]And I walked out and I watched her kick the big pile of the night [03:20.40] [03:21.22]And we sat down and we waited for that strange and empty light [03:25.22] [03:25.83]Yeah the blessings [03:26.73] [03:32.30]See them smiling see them stuck [03:34.62]See them try I wish them luck and all the blessings