Helplessness Blues

Song Helplessness Blues
Artist Fleet Foxes
Album Helplessness Blues

Lyrics

[00:14.24] I was raised up believing
[00:18.12] I was somehow unique
[00:22.10] Like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes
[00:26.78] Unique in each way you can see
[00:29.99] And now after some thinking
[00:33.81] I'd say I'd rather be
[00:38.51] A functioning cog in some great machinery
[00:42.54] Serving something beyond me
[00:45.44] But I don't, I don't know what that will be
[00:53.21] I'll get back to you someday soon you will see
[01:07.02] What's my name, what's my station
[01:10.93] Oh just tell me what I should do
[01:14.84] I don't need to be kind to the armies of night
[01:19.31] That would do such injustice to you
[01:22.64] Or bow down and be grateful
[01:26.54] And say "Sure take all that you see"
[01:30.68] To the men who move only in dimly-lit halls
[01:34.94] And determine my future for me
[01:38.42] And I don't, I don't know who to believe
[01:46.57] I'll get back to you someday soon you will see
[02:00.53] If I know only one thing
[02:04.31] It's that every thing that I see
[02:08.38] Of the world outside is so inconceivable
[02:13.43] Often I barely can speak
[02:16.32] Yeah I'm tongue tied and dizzy
[02:20.08] And I can't keep it to myself
[02:24.36] What good is it to sing helplessness blues?
[02:28.32] Why should I wait for anyone else?
[02:31.76] And I know, I know you will keep me on the shelf
[02:39.85] I'll come back to you someday soon myself
[03:03.42] If I had an orchard
[03:10.14] I'd work till I'm raw
[03:18.55] If I had an orchard
[03:21.43] I'd work till I'm sore
[03:28.54] And you would wait tables
[03:31.27] And soon run the store
[03:38.30] Gold hair in the sunlight
[03:45.29] My light in the dawn
[03:53.63] If I had an orchard
[03:56.84] I'd work till I'm sore
[04:03.68] If I had an orchard
[04:06.31] I'd work till I'm sore
[04:39.16] Someday I'll be
[04:41.01] Like the man on the screen
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