Helplessness Blues Lyrics - Helplessness Blues/battery Kinzie - Fleet Foxes

I was raised up believing I was somehow unique 

Like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes, unique in each way you can see 

And now after some thinking, I'd say I'd rather be 

A functioning cog in some great machinery serving something beyond me 

But I don't, I don't know what that will be 

I'll get back to you someday soon you will see 

What's my name, what's my station, oh, just tell me what I should do 

I don't need to be kind to the armies of night that would do such injustice to you 

Or bow down and be grateful and say "Sure, take all that you see" 

To the men who move only in dimly-lit halls and determine my future for me 

And I don't, I don't know who to believe 

I'll get back to you someday soon you will see 

If I know only one thing, it's that everything that I see 

Of the world outside is so inconceivable often I barely can speak 

Yeah I'm tongue-tied and dizzy and I can't keep it to myself 

What good is it to sing helplessness blues, why should I wait for anyone else? 

And I know, I know you will keep me on the shelf 

I'll come back to you someday soon myself 

If I had an orchard, I'd work 'til I'm raw 

If I had an orchard, I'd work 'til I'm sore 

And you would wait tables and soon run the store 

Gold hair in the sunlight, my light in the dawn 

If I had an orchard, I'd work 'til I'm sore 

If I had an orchard, I'd work 'til I'm sore 

Someday I'll be like the man on the screen