Helplessness Blues Chords by Fleet Foxes

[Start]

[Intro]

[Verse]
Eb                          
■  I was raised up believing
Eb                  
I was somehow unique
Eb                                        
Like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes
          Eb                  
Unique in each way you can see
                   Eb      
And now after some thinking
        Ab         Eb
I'd say I'd rather be
  Eb                                     
A functioning cog in some great machinery
Ab                       Eb
Serving something beyond me


[Chorus]
                                   Ab     
But I don't I don't know what that will be
     Eb                      Ab            Eb 
I'll get back to you someday soon you will see


[Verse]
       Eb                       
What's my name what's my station
   Ab                           
Oh just tell me what I should do
  Eb                                          
I don't need to be kind to the armies of night
Ab                           Eb    
That would do such injustice to you
   Eb                      
Or bow down and be grateful
    Ab                            
And say Sure take all that you see
Eb                                        
To the men who move only in dimlylit halls
    Ab                  Eb    
And determine my future for me


[Chorus]
                                Ab     
And I don't I don't know who to believe
     Eb       Ab             Eb   Ab  Eb      
I'll get back to you someday soon you will see


[Verse]
     Eb                 
If I know only one thing
          Ab                    
It's that every thing that I see
Eb                                      
Of the world outside is so inconceivable
Ab                 Eb   
Often I barely can speak
         Eb                   
Yeah I'm tongue tied and dizzy
      Ab                     
And I can't keep it to myself


[Chorus]
Eb                                        
What good is it to sing helplessness blues
Ab                    Eb         
Why should I wait for anyone else
                                      Ab       
And I know I know you will keep me on the shelf
     Eb   Ab      Eb          Ab   Eb    
I'll come back to you someday soon myself


[Inst]

[Chorus]
            Bbm     Ab
If I had an orchard ■ 
Eb                Fm 
I'd work 'til I'm raw
Eb Fm   Fm7    Eb     
■  If I had an orchard
                  Ab  
I'd work 'til I'm sore
    Eb                   
And you would wait tables
                 Ab   
And soon run the store
Eb               Fm      
Gold hair in the sunlight
Bbsus4 Eb           Fm  
My     light in the dawn
Eb   Fm     Eb     
If I had an orchard
                  Ab  
I'd work 'til I'm sore
Eb   Bb     Ab     
If I had an orchard
Eb                Ab  
I'd work 'til I'm sore
Eb Ebsus4 Fm Eb Fm Fm7
■  ■      ■  ■  ■  ■  
Ab Eb Ab
■  ■  ■ 


[Outro]
Eb           Ab
Someday I'll be
         Eb         Ab     Eb
Like the man on the screen ■