EVERY BLESSING IS A BILL

Name: EVERY BLESSING IS A BILL
Duration: 252 s
Description: EVERY BLESSING IS A BILL by mBaileyz. From the artist’s lyric sheet: “I told her I would fix it all when I was small enough to believe it”

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Intro

Pot on the stove, same recipe, different kitchen Scrolling through the family chat, everybody missing something

Verse 1

Used to share a room with two cousins and a dresser with no mirror Mama counting ones at the table like she solving something we can't hear Hand-me-downs from '03, collars stretched, still wore 'em to the school fair She never said we poor, she said we careful, same thing, different prayer Now I'm in a lease with my name on it, granite where the laminate was And the guilt sits next to the coffee mug like a roommate I never chose

Pre-chorus

I told her I would fix it all when I was small enough to believe it

Chorus

Every blessing is a bill, every blessing is a bill Love you more than I can carry, but I'm carrying you still Every blessing is a bill mmm, still

Verse 2

Cousin need a cosign, uncle need a loan that ain't a loan Auntie sent a paragraph at 6 AM, no good morning, just the tone I wire money soft, they receive it loud, suddenly I'm the one with means Nobody ask me how the freelance going, if I ate, or what I owe on these Same folks who raised me, same folks I'd do anything for, I mean that But resentment and devotion share a bedroom, and neither one will leave that

Pre-chorus

I told her I would fix it all... and now the fixing never ends

Chorus

Every blessing is a bill, every blessing is a bill Love you more than I can carry, but I'm carrying you still Every blessing is a bill still, still

Verse 3

Ten years old promising I'll buy her a house, now she need the water bill Fifteen saving lunch money for sneakers, now the dental copay's real Thanksgiving plates and silence, everybody scanning what I'm wearing Got a checking account they treat like public infrastructure Somebody's car note, somebody's kid, somebody's second chance I'm funding I'm one bad month from needing what I'm giving, that's the quiet part

Bridge

She left a voice note once, said baby you allowed to just live You don't owe us your whole self just cause you made it past the bridge

Verse 4

Typed it slow, I can't be the safety net for every fall I love you all but I'm still building floors beneath my own walls Offered budgets not blank checks, sent the links instead of cash Message sat on read for fourteen hours, then auntie wrote back, I understand

Verse 5

Muted the chat for a week and missed the photos from the cookout Unmuted at midnight, scrolled the laughs I wasn't part of You can love a family and still need a door between you, that's not cold That's just a man who's learning what it means when you're not the only one surviving

Chorus

Every blessing is a bill, every blessing is a bill Love you more than I can carry, but I'm learning to be still Every blessing is a bill still... I'm still here

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