Biography:
American singer-songwriter Dar Williams lives at the intersection of pop and folk. She fuses many genres (blues, rock, jazz), resulting in a rather organic sound. She has been making music for over a decade.
Her studio album My Better Self finds Dar at an unequivocally brazen crossroads. Reflecting on American politics, the disillusionment and apathy of youth, and the female experience, Dar makes no apology for her outspoken beliefs.
Her 2008 album, entitled Promised Land.
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Other songs:
- The Christians And The Pagans
- You're Aging Well
- After All
- Another Mystery
- Are You Out There
- Arrival
- As Cool As I Am
- Blue Light Of The Flame
- Book Of Love
- Bought And Sold
- Buzzer
- Closer To Me
- Crystal Creek
- Echoes
- Empire
- Family
- Farewell To The Old Me
- February
- Fishing In The Morning
- Flinty Kind Of Woman
- Here Tonight
- Holly Tree
- I Am The One Who Will Remember Everything
- I Had No Right
- I Have Been Around The World
- I Have Lost My Dreams
- I Saw A Bird Fly Away
- If I Wrote You
- Iowa
- It Happens Every Day
- Its Alright
- Mercy Of The Fallen
- Miss You Till I Meet You
- Party Generation
- Playing To The Firmament
- So Close To My Heart
- Southern California Wants To Be Western New York
- Spring Street
- Summer Child
- Summerday
- Teen For God
- The Babysitters Here
- The Beauty Of The Rain
- The Blessings
- The Business Of Things
- The Easy Way
- The Light And The Sea
- The Mercy Of The Fallen
- The Ocean
- The One Who Knows
- The Pointless Yet Poignant Crisis Of A Co
- The Tide Falls Away
- The Worlds Not Falling Apart
- This Earth
- Traveling Again Traveling I
- What Do You Hear In These Sounds
- What Do You Love More Than Love
- When I Was A Boy
- Your Fire Your Soul
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Dar Williams - The Blessings
CAPO: 2nd Fret
INTRO: F C Em Am F G
F C Em
If you're gonna get your heart broke, you better do it just right
Am F G
It's gotta be raining and you gotta move your stuff that night
Am F G
And the only friend you can reach, isn't a good friend at all
Am
And you know when he says, “Now who dumped who?”
F G
That you never should have made that call
F
I had blessings
C G
There's nobody there, there's nobody home
Am
Yeah, the blessings
F G Am
At the moment I was most alone and aimless as a fulltime fool
C G
The joke was on me
Am F G
I got all those birds flying off of that tree
F C Em Am F G
That's a blessing
F C Em
And the blessings were like poets that we never find time to know
Am F G
But when time stopped, I found the place where the poets go
Am F G
And they said, “Here have some coffee, it's straight black and very old”
Am F G
And they gave me sticks and rocks and stars and all that I could hold
F
I had blessings
C G
A moment of peace even when the night ends
Am
Yeah, blessings
F G Am
Can we meet? Can we meet again at the crossroads of disaster
C G
And the imperfect smile
Am F G
With the angel in the streetlamp that blinks on as I walk on a mile
F C Em Am F G
The blessings
Am F G
And the best ones were the ones I got to keep as I grew strong
Am F G
And the days that opened up until my whole life could belong
F C G
It's like getting the answers, when I don't need them anymore
Am F Em
I'm finding the pictures, and I finally know what I kept them for
Am C G
I remember, I can see them
Am
See them smiling, see them stuck
F G
See them try, I wish them luck
F C Em Am F G
And all the blessings
F C
I was fast asleep at three in the morning, when I got the payphone call
Am F G
And she said, “Did I wake you up”, I said, “Hey, no, not at all”
Am F G
And she said, “I got this suitcase and I don't know what to pack”
Am F G
And I said, “You can take anything you want,
F C G
Just wait and see, it's not a release, it's not a reward
Am
It's the blessings,
F G
It's the gift of what you notice more,”
Am C G
And I walked out and I watched her kick the big pile of the night
Am F G
And we sat down and we waited for that strange and empty light
F C Em
Yeah, the blessings, aah, aah, aah
Am C G
See them smiling, see them stuck, see them try, I wish them luck
F C Em Am
And all the blessings
CAPO: 2nd Fret
INTRO: F C Em Am F G
F C Em
If you're gonna get your heart broke, you better do it just right
Am F G
It's gotta be raining and you gotta move your stuff that night
Am F G
And the only friend you can reach, isn't a good friend at all
Am
And you know when he says, “Now who dumped who?”
F G
That you never should have made that call
F
I had blessings
C G
There's nobody there, there's nobody home
Am
Yeah, the blessings
F G Am
At the moment I was most alone and aimless as a fulltime fool
C G
The joke was on me
Am F G
I got all those birds flying off of that tree
F C Em Am F G
That's a blessing
F C Em
And the blessings were like poets that we never find time to know
Am F G
But when time stopped, I found the place where the poets go
Am F G
And they said, “Here have some coffee, it's straight black and very old”
Am F G
And they gave me sticks and rocks and stars and all that I could hold
F
I had blessings
C G
A moment of peace even when the night ends
Am
Yeah, blessings
F G Am
Can we meet? Can we meet again at the crossroads of disaster
C G
And the imperfect smile
Am F G
With the angel in the streetlamp that blinks on as I walk on a mile
F C Em Am F G
The blessings
Am F G
And the best ones were the ones I got to keep as I grew strong
Am F G
And the days that opened up until my whole life could belong
F C G
It's like getting the answers, when I don't need them anymore
Am F Em
I'm finding the pictures, and I finally know what I kept them for
Am C G
I remember, I can see them
Am
See them smiling, see them stuck
F G
See them try, I wish them luck
F C Em Am F G
And all the blessings
F C
I was fast asleep at three in the morning, when I got the payphone call
Am F G
And she said, “Did I wake you up”, I said, “Hey, no, not at all”
Am F G
And she said, “I got this suitcase and I don't know what to pack”
Am F G
And I said, “You can take anything you want,
F C G
Just wait and see, it's not a release, it's not a reward
Am
It's the blessings,
F G
It's the gift of what you notice more,”
Am C G
And I walked out and I watched her kick the big pile of the night
Am F G
And we sat down and we waited for that strange and empty light
F C Em
Yeah, the blessings, aah, aah, aah
Am C G
See them smiling, see them stuck, see them try, I wish them luck
F C Em Am
And all the blessings
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