Helplessness Blues

Chords

Standard

Verse 1:
E
I was raised up believing 
A
I was somehow unique
B
Like a snowflake unique among snowflakes
A                              E
Unique in each way you can see

Verse 2:
E
And now after some thinking
A
I'd say I'd rather be
B
A functioning cog in some great machinery
A                              E
Serving something beyond me

Chorus:
E                              A
But I don't, I don't know what that will be
E                              A                                  E
I'll get back to you someday, soon you will see.

Verse 3: 
E
What's my name, what's my station?
A
Oh, just tell me what I should do
B
I don't need to be kind to the armies of the night
A                            E
That would do such injustice to you

Verse 4:
E
Or bow down and be grateful
A
And say, "Sure, take all that you see."
B
To the men who move only in dimly-lit halls
A                        E
And determine my future for me

Chorus
E                           A
And I don't, I don't know who to believe
E                       A                   E
I'll get back to you someday, soon you will see

Verse 6: 
E
If I know only one thing
A
It's that everything that I see
B
Of the world outside is so inconceivable
A                       E
Often I barely can speak
E
Yeah, I'm tongue-tied and dizzy
A
And I can't keep it to myself
B
What good is it to sing helplessness blues?
A                      E
Why should I wait for anyone else?

Chorus:
E                              A
And I know, I know you will keep me on the shelf
E                          A                      E
I'll come back to you someday, soon myself

Instrumental: E

Choral Section:
E                    A
If I had an orchard
E           A           (Aadd9)
I'd work till I'm raw
A6                E
And if I had an orchard
A       Asus4             A
I'd work till I'm sore

E                    A
And you would wait tables
E           A        Asus4       A
And soon run the store

E              A
Gold hair in the sunlight
E          A           (Aadd9)
My light in the dawn
A6       E          
If I had an orchard
A        Asus4            A
I'd work till I'm sore
(repeat)

E                  A
Someday I'll be 
E                 A
Like the man on the screen

Outro: 
A-Asus4-A-E