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If you're gonna get your heart broke, you better do it just right, |
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It's gotta be raining,a nd you gotta move your stuff that night, |
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And the only friend you can reach isn't a good friend at all, |
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And you know when he says 'Now who dumped who?' that you never should have made |
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that call. |
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I had the blessings, there's nobody there, there's nobody home, |
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Yeah the blessings, at the moment I was most alone |
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And aimless as a fulltime fool, the joke was on me, |
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I got all those birds flying off of that tree, and that's a blessing. |
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And the blessings were like poets that we never find time to know, |
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But when time stopped I found the place where the poets go. |
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And they said, 'Here have some coffee, it's straight, black and very old,' |
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And they gave me sticks and rocks and stars and all that I could hold, |
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I had the blessings, a moment of peace even when the night ends, |
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Yeah the blessings, can we meet? Can we meet again, |
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At the crossroads of disaster and the imperfect smile, |
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With the angel in the streetlamp that blinks on as I walk on a mile, the blessings. |
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And the best ones were the ones I got to keep as I grew strong, |
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And the days that opened up until my whole life could belong, |
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And now I'm getting the answers, when I don't need them anymore, |
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I'm finding the pictures, and I finally know what I kept them for, |
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I remember, I can see them, see them smiling, see them stuck, |
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See them try, I wish them luck and all the blessings. |
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I was fast asleep at three in the morning when I got the payphone call, |
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And she said, 'Did I wake you up,' I said, 'Hey, no, not at all.' |
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And she said, 'I got this suitcase and I don't know what to pack,' |
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And I said, 'You can take anything you want, just wait and see, |
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It's not a release, not a reward, it's the blessings, |
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Its the gift of what you notice more,' |
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And I walked out and I watched her kick the big pile of the night, |
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And we sat down and we waited for that strange and empty light. |
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Yeah the blessings... |
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See them smiling, see them stuck, |
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See them try, I wish them luck and all the blessings. |