Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues chords

Helplessness Blues - Fleet Foxes


** The song is recorded with a guitar tuned down a half-step to Eb**
		(Eb Ab Db Gb C Eb)

(palm-muted) E x16

**Verse 1**

EI was raised up believing
       AI was somehow unique
       BLike a snowflake distinct among snowflakes
  A                         EUnique in each way you can see

        EAnd now after some thinking
        AI'd say I'd rather be
  BA functioning cog in some great machinery
A                        EServing something beyond me


**Chorus** (begin strumming)

      E                   ABut I don't, I don't know what that will be
     E                       A             EI'll get back to you someday soon you will see


**Verse 2**

          EWhat's my name, what's my station
        AOh just tell me what I should do
        BI don't need to be kind to the armies of night
           A                    EThat would do such injustice to you

       EOr bow down and be grateful
         AAnd say "Sure take all that you see"
       BTo the men who move only in dimly-lit halls
      A                     EAnd determine my future for me


**Chorus**  (with vigor)

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


**Verse 3** (with subdued enthusiasm / palm-mute)

     EIf I know only one thing
          AIt's that every thing that I see
       BOf the world outside is so inconceivable
A                  EOften I barely can speak

         EYeah I'm tongue tied and dizzy
      AAnd I can't keep it to myself
     BWhat good is it to sing helplessness blues?
           A                 EWhy should I wait for anyone else?


**Chorus** (With renewed intensity)

      E                     AAnd I know, I know you will keep me on the shelf
          E                    A          EI'll come back to you someday soon myyyy--self


**Awesome** 

E x6
             Amaj7If I had an orchard
    E                  F#mI'd work till I'm raw
   E      If i had an orchard
    (C#m)         Amaj7I'd work till I'm sore

    E              AAnd you would wait tables
    E            Amaj7And soon run the store

     E           Amaj7Gold hair in the sunlight
   E            Amaj7       F#mMy light in the dawn
            E  If I had an orchard
    (C#m)         Amaj7I'd work till I'm sore

   E        AIf I had an orchard
    E              Amaj7I'd work till I'm sore

E     Amaj7OoooooOOOhhhh
E     F#mOoooooOOOhhhh
E               AOohhhhhhoooOOOOhoooohhhh

E            ASomeday I'll be
         E           A            ELike the man on the screen

**FIN**