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Helplessness Blues
The Plains / Bitter Dancer

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The Plains / Bitter Dancer

Release date: 28th April 2011

From Helplessness BluesTrack 55:54

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Lyrics

The Plains / Bitter Dancer

Just as the sand made everything round
Just as the tar seeps up from the ground
Bitter dancer, ever turning
So was the day that you came to town

You took a room and you settled in
Washed off the chalk from your weathered skin
Daylight sleeper
Bloody reaper
You took a room and you settled in

I should have known one day you would come
All of us walk so blind in the sun
Midnight feeder, beggar, pleader
I should had known one day you would come

Tell me again my only son
Tell me again what have you done

At arm's length
I will hold you there
There
At arm's length
I will hold you there
There

Lyrics provided by LRCLIB

Track details

From Helplessness Blues

5:542011

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Album

Helplessness Blues

29th April 2011

Track number

5

Release year

2011

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Fleet Foxes — Angel in the Snow (from "Oh. What. Fun.")
Fleet Foxes — Don't Put It All On Me
Fleet Foxes — TM
Fleet Foxes — Hejira (live at the Spring Recital)
Fleet Foxes — Under Control (live at Forest Hills Stadium)
Fleet Foxes — The Shame
Fleet Foxes — A Sky Like I’ve Never Seen (From the Amazon Original Movie “Wildcat”)
Fleet Foxes — I'm Not My Season (Solstice Version) (from A Very Lonely Solstice) [3:10]
Fleet Foxes — Helplessness Blues (Solstice Version) (from A Very Lonely Solstice) [5:03]
Fleet Foxes — Sunblind (Solstice Version) (from A Very Lonely Solstice) [4:25]
Fleet Foxes — In The Morning (Solstice Version) (from A Very Lonely Solstice) [2:12]
Fleet Foxes — Can I Believe You (Solstice Version) (from A Very Lonely Solstice) [4:00]
Fleet Foxes — Tiger Mountain Peasant Song (Solstice Version) (from A Very Lonely Solstice) [3:54]
Fleet Foxes — Maestranza (Solstice Version) (from A Very Lonely Solstice) [2:55]
Fleet Foxes — If You Need To, Keep Time on Me (Solstice Version) (from A Very Lonely Solstice) [2:56]
Fleet Foxes — Featherweight (Solstice Version) (from A Very Lonely Solstice) [3:48]
Fleet Foxes — Wading In Waist-High Water (Solstice Version) (from A Very Lonely Solstice) [2:10]
Fleet Foxes — A Long Way Past The Past (Solstice Version) (from A Very Lonely Solstice) [3:44]
Fleet Foxes — Silver Dagger (Solstice Version) (from A Very Lonely Solstice) [3:42]
Fleet Foxes — Blue Spotted Tail (Solstice Version) (from A Very Lonely Solstice) [3:09]
Fleet Foxes — Phoenix
Fleet Foxes — Can I Believe You / Wading In Waist-High Water
Fleet Foxes — Quiet Air / Gioia (from Shore) [4:28]
Fleet Foxes — Can I Believe You (from Shore) [4:04]
Fleet Foxes — Wading In Waist-High Water (from Shore) [2:15]
Fleet Foxes — Going-to-the-Sun Road (from Shore) [3:59]
Fleet Foxes — Thymia (from Shore) [2:23]
Fleet Foxes — For A Week Or Two (from Shore) [2:12]
Fleet Foxes — Sunblind (from Shore) [4:14]
Fleet Foxes — Cradling Mother, Cradling Woman (from Shore) [5:10]
Fleet Foxes — A Long Way Past The Past (from Shore) [4:00]
Fleet Foxes — Jara (from Shore) [4:09]
Fleet Foxes — Shore (from Shore) [4:20]
Fleet Foxes — Young Man's Game (from Shore) [3:12]
Fleet Foxes — I'm Not My Season (from Shore) [3:11]
Fleet Foxes — Featherweight (from Shore) [3:51]
Fleet Foxes — Maestranza (from Shore) [3:03]
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Fleet Foxes — Cassius, - (from Crack‐Up) [4:50]
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Fleet Foxes — If You Need to, Keep Time on Me (from Crack‐Up) [3:31]
Fleet Foxes — I Am All That I Need / Arroyo Seco / Thumbprint Scar (from Crack‐Up) [6:25]
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Fleet Foxes — - Naiads, Cassadies (from Crack‐Up) [3:11]
Fleet Foxes — I Should See Memphis (from Crack‐Up) [4:44]
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Fleet Foxes — On Another Ocean (January / June) (from Crack‐Up) [4:23]
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5The Plains / Bitter Dancer

5:54

6Helplessness Blues

9Someone You'd Admire

10The Shrine / An Argument

11Blue Spotted Tail