[ti:Helplessness Blues] [ar:Fleet Foxes] [al:Helplessness Blues] [by:] [offset:0] [00:14.62]I was raised up believing I was somehow unique [00:22.44]Like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes unique in each way you can see [00:29.58] [00:30.27]And now after some thinking I'd say I'd rather be [00:37.44] [00:38.69]A functioning cog in some great machinery serving something beyond me [00:45.68]But I don't I don't know what that will be [00:52.99] [00:53.62]I'll get back to you someday soon you will see [01:00.84] [01:07.50]What's my name what's my station oh just tell me what I should do [01:14.57] [01:15.19]I don't need to be kind to the armies of night that would do such injustice to you [01:22.40] [01:22.96]Or bow down and be grateful and say sure take all that you see [01:30.80]To the men who move only in dimly-lit halls and determine my future for me [01:38.35] [01:38.90]And I don't I don't know who to believe [01:47.14]I'll get back to you someday soon you will see [01:54.51] [02:00.89]If I know only one thing it's that everything that I see [02:08.72]Of the world outside is so inconceivable often I barely can speak [02:16.59]Yeah I'm tongue-tied and dizzy and I can't keep it to myself [02:24.69]What good is it to sing helplessness blues why should I wait for anyone else [02:31.58] [02:32.33]And I know I know you will keep me on the shelf [02:40.23]I'll come back to you someday soon myself [02:49.89] [03:03.65]If I had an orchard I'd work till I'm raw [03:16.30] [03:18.93]If I had an orchard I'd work till I'm sore [03:24.99] [03:28.98]And you would wait tables and soon run the store [03:33.97] [03:38.65]Gold hair in the sunlight my light in the dawn [03:50.87] [03:54.12]If I had an orchard I'd work till I'm sore [03:59.76] [04:04.02]If I had an orchard I'd work till I'm sore [04:09.36] [04:39.49]Someday I'll be like the man on the screen