Helplessness Blues [Solstice]

[Verse 1]

I was raised up believing

I was somehow unique

Like a snowflake, distinct among snowflakes

Unique in each way you can see

But now after some thinking

I think I'd rather be

A functioning cog in some great machinery

Serving something beyond me

[Chorus 1]

But I don't, I don't know what that will be

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

[Verse 2]

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 mе

[Chorus 2]

But I don't, I don't know who to believe

I'll gеt back to you someday soon, you will see

[Verse 3]

If I've known only one thing

It's that everything that I've seen

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?

[Chorus 3]

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

I'll come back to you someday soon myself

[Outro]

If I had an orchard, I'd work 'til I'm raw

If I had an orchard, I'd work 'til I'm sore

And I could wait tables while you ran the store

Gold hair in the sunlight, my light in the dawn

If I had an orchard, I'd work 'til I'm sore

If I had an orchard, I'd work 'til I'm sore

Someday I'll be like the man on the screen