Helplessness Blues

Tuning is D-A-D-F#-B-d

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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

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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 you will see

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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

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And I don't, I don't know who to be-lieve

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

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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?

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

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I'll come back to you someday soon... myself

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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 tables  and  soon run the store

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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, I'd work 'til I'm sore

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Whoa

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Whoa

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Whoa

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Someday I'll be like the man on the screen