The Blessings chords by Dar Williams

Chords with lyrics

Dar Williams - The Blessings


CAPO: 2nd Fret


INTRO: FF C majorC E minorEm A minorAm  FF G+G

     FF                      C majorC      E minorEm
If you're gonna get your heart broke, you better do it just right
       A minorAm               FF     G+G
It's gotta be raining and you gotta move your stuff that night
    A minorAm                 FF       G+G
And the only friend you can reach, isn't a good friend at all
    A minorAm
And you know when he says, ?Now who dumped who??
     FF             G+G
That you never should have made that call

   FF
I had blessings
        C majorC           G+G
There's nobody there, there's nobody home
     A minorAm
Yeah, the blessings
    FF      G+G       A minorAm
At the moment I was most alone and aimless as a fulltime fool
   C majorC     G+G
The joke was on me
   A minorAm           FF      G+G
I got all those birds flying off of that tree
     FF     C majorC E minorEm A minorAm  FF G+G
That's a blessing


    FF                 C majorC         E minorEm
And the blessings were like poets that we never find time to know
  A minorAm                     FF    G+G
But when time stopped, I found the place where the poets go
     A minorAm                     FF       G+G
And they said, ?Here have some coffee, it's straight black and very old?
     A minorAm                   FF        G+G
And they gave me sticks and rocks and stars and all that I could hold


   FF
I had blessings
      C majorC             G+G
A augmentedA moment of peace even when the night ends
   A minorAm
Yeah, blessings
    FF      G+G         A minorAm
Can we meet? Can we meet again at the crossroads of disaster
    C majorC     G+G
And the imperfect smile
     A minorAm                 FF      G+G
With the angel in the streetlamp that blinks on as I walk on a mile
 FF      C majorC E minorEm A minorAm  FF G+G
The blessings

    A minorAm                FF       G+G
And the best ones were the ones I got to keep as I grew strong
    A minorAm              FF         G+G
And the days that opened up until my whole life could belong
           FF           C majorC      G+G
It's like getting the answers, when I don't need them anymore
        A minorAm           FF           E minorEm
I'm finding the pictures, and I finally know what I kept them for
  A minorAm      C majorC    G+G
I remember, I can see them
     A minorAm
See them smiling, see them stuck
     FF        G+G
See them try, I wish them luck
 FF        C majorC E minorEm A minorAm  FF G+G
And all the blessings


   FF                      C majorC
I was fast asleep at three in the morning, when I got the payphone call
    A minorAm                    FF     G+G
And she said, ?Did I wake you up?, I said, ?Hey, no, not at all?
    A minorAm                FF         G+G
And she said, ?I got this suitcase and I don't know what to pack?
   A minorAm                FF   G+G
And I said, ?You can take anything you want,
     FF           C majorC          G+G
Just wait and see, it's not a release, it's not a reward
     A minorAm
It's the blessings,
     FF        G+G
It's the gift of what you notice more,?
   A minorAm                  C majorC        G+G
And I walked out and I watched her kick the big pile of the night
    A minorAm               FF         G+G
And we sat down and we waited for that strange and empty light
     FF        C majorC  E minorEm
Yeah, the blessings, aah, aah, aah


     A minorAm                C majorC        G+G
See them smiling, see them stuck, see them try, I wish them luck
  FF        C majorC E minorEm A minorAm
And all the blessings