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Daniel Caesar

Blessed

Release date: 9th June 2017

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About This Track

Daniel Caesar frames co-dependence as devotion on this 2017 single from 'We Find Love'. The track maps the contours of a relationship that teeters between sustaining and suffocating, its narrator caught between gratitude for proximity and awareness of the toll. Caesar's vocal delivery stays tender even as the lyric acknowledges the dynamic's unhealthy edge, the chorus admitting mutual need whilst gesturing towards regret and a wish to repair what's been strained.

The production holds space for that ambivalence, Caesar's voice moving through verses that catalogue both comfort and manipulation, the bridge a simple mantra of return. The song doesn't resolve its central tension so much as accept it, the narrator's self-awareness coexisting with his inability to extract himself. It's a portrait of attachment that refuses easy judgement, the warmth of the arrangement never quite masking the unease beneath.

"Blessed" is a track by Daniel Caesar, from the album We Find Love - Single, released 9th June 2017. Full lyrics are available below.

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Daniel Caesar

Daniel Caesar

Lyrics

Blessed

[Verse 1]

Everywhere that I go, everywhere that I be

If you were not surrounding me with your energy

I don't wanna be there, don't wanna be anywhere

Anyplace that I can't feel you, I just wanna be near you

[Chorus]

And yes, I'm a mess but I'm blessed

To be stuck with you

Sometimes it gets unhealthy

We can't be by ourselves, we

Will always need each other

And yes, I'm a mess but I'm blessed

To be stuck with you

I just want you to know that

If I could, I swear I'd go back

Make everything all better, woah

[Verse 2]

It's the things that you say

It's the way that you prey

Prey on my insecurities

I know you're feelin' me

I know sometimes I do wrong

But hear the words of this song

When I go, I don't stay gone for long

Don't know what's going on

[Chorus]

And yes, I'm a mess but I'm blessed

To be stuck with you

Sometimes it gets unhealthy

We can't be by ourselves, we

Will always need each other

And yes, I'm a mess but I'm blessed

To be stuck with you

I just want you to know that

If I could, I swear I'd go back

Make everything all better, woah

[Bridge]

And I'm coming back home to you

And I'm coming back home to you

I'm coming back home

I'm coming back home to you

I'm coming back home

I'm coming back home to you

I'm coming back home

I'm coming back home to you

I'm coming back home

I'm coming back home to you

I'm coming back home

I'm coming back home to you

I'm coming back home

[Chorus]

And yes, I'm a mess but I'm blessed

To be stuck with you

Sometimes it gets unhealthy

We can't be by ourselves, we

Will always need each other

And yes, I'm a mess but I'm blessed

To be stuck with you

I just want you to know that

If I could, I swear I'll go back

Make everything all better, woah

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2017
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    Daniel Caesar, Jordan Evans, Matthew Burnett
    Composer
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    Producer
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    Ian Culley
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    Camille Harrison, Danah Martin, Rochelle Harrisson
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