Helplessness Blues chords by Fleet Foxes
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I was raised up believing
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I was somehow unique
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Like a snowflake
distinct among snowflakes,
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unique in each way you can see
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And now after some thinking,
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I'd say I'd rather be
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A functioning cog in some great machinery
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serving something beyond me
Chorus 1
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But I don't, I don't know what that will be
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I'll get back to you someday soon
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you will see
Verse 2
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What's my name, what's my station?
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Oh, just tell me what I should do
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I don't need to be kind to the armies of night
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that would do such injustice to you
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Or bow down and be grateful
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and say, "Sure, take all that you see"
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To the men who move only in dimly-lit halls
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and determine my future for me
Chorus 2
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And I don't, I don't know who to believe
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I'll get back to you someday soon
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you will see
Verse 3
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If I know only one thing,
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it's that everything that I see
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Of the world outside is so inconceivable
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often I barely can speak
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Yeah I'm tongue-tied and dizzy
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and I can't keep it to myself
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What good is it to sing helplessness blues,
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why should I wait for anyone else?
Chorus 3
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And I know, I know
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you will keep me on the shelf
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I'll come back to you someday soon
Interlude 1
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(myself)
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Verse 4
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If I had an orchard,
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I'd work 'til I'm raw
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If I had an orchard,
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I'd work 'til I'm sore
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And you would wait ta bles
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and soon run the store
Verse 5
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Gold hair in the sunlight,
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my light in the dawn
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If I had an orchard,
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I'd work 'til I'm sore
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If I had an orchard
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I'd work 'til I'm sore
Outro 1
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Someday I'll be like
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the man on the screen
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Helplessness Blues
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