Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues (Guitar)

Half-Step Down (Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb)
Key
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Versions (2)

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Chords

This is my first ever tab, but this song is so damn awesome that I had to put a tab out there for it that people can either use or improve upon. Again, I am not an expert with chords but I think this sounds fairly close. Chords: E x22100 A xx2220 B xx4442 Aadd9 xx22xx Asus4 xx223x [Verse 1]
E
I was raised up believing

      A
I was somehow unique

       B
Like a snowflake distinct 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 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 every thing that I see

       B
Of the world outside is so inconceivable

A                  E
Often I barely can speak
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
[Short Instrumental] E [Choral Section] [Verse]
E           A
If I had an orchard

    E             A    (Aadd9)
I'd work till I'm raw

A6          E
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

   E       A
If I had an orchard

   E              A    Asus4   A
I'd work till I'm sore
Harmony Verse - follow same chord pattern as before...
   E         A
Someday I'll be

        E               A
Like the man on the screen
[Outro] A - Asus4 - A - E