Helplessness Blues - Solstice Version
I was raised up believing
I was somehow unique
Like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes
Unique in each way you can see
But now I do 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
But 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 every thing 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 I could wait tables
While you ran 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
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Someday I'll be
Like the man on the screen
I was somehow unique
Like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes
Unique in each way you can see
But now I do 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
But 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 every thing 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 I could wait tables
While you ran 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
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Someday I'll be
Like the man on the screen
Credits
Writer(s): Robin Pecknold
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Other Album Tracks
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- Sunblind - Solstice Version
- In The Morning - Solstice Version
- Tiger Mountain Peasant Song - Solstice Version
- Maestranza - Solstice Version
- Helplessness Blues - Solstice Version
- Silver Dagger - Solstice Version
- Featherweight - Solstice Version
- A Long Way Past The Past - Solstice Version
- Blue Spotted Tail - Solstice Version
Altri album
- Live On Boston Harbor
- A Sky Like I've Never Seen (From the Amazon Original Movie "Wildcat") [feat. Tim Bernardes] - Single
- A Very Lonely Solstice
- Shore
- First Collection 2006-2009
- Icicle Tusk
- Isles
- Crack-Up (Choral Version) / In the Morning (Live in Switzerland)
- On Another Ocean (January / June) [Edit]
- Crack-Up
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