The Blessings

[Verse 1]
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

[Chorus]
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
And that's a blessing

[Verse 2]
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

[Chorus]
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

[Verse 3]
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

[Chorus]
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

[Verse 3]
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

[Chorus]
"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...

[Outro]
See them smiling, see them stuck
See them try, I wish them luck
And all the blessings