The Prime of Ms. Lauren

New Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

I was raised up believing I was somehow unique / Like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes / Unique in each way you can see / And now after 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 / And 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 till I’m raw / If I had an orchard / I’d work till I’m sore / And you would wait tables / And soon run the store / Gold hair in the sunlight / My light in the dawn / If I had an orchard / I’d work till I’m sore / If I had an orchard / I’d work till I’m sore / Someday I’ll be / Like the man on the screen

(Source: soundcloud.com)