Someday I'll be like the man on the screen

The new Fleet Foxes album is so, so good. My dear compatriots, when you think the best of music is behind us, know that there is no wrong side of history. If you need more proof (as there are so many astounding musicians in this generation) I think Fleet Foxes have provided it with 'Helplessness Blues'. Since you asked, yes, I think Crosby, Still, Nash, and even Young would admire it. That's the thing with great music, when it's good, it's timeless. Gosh, I still can't get over the lyrics... I imagine laying in a sunny wheat field contemplating my whole life, and when I was done making all of those life changing decisions, I'd go to my orchard and work 'till I'm sore.

I can't quit playing Montezuma, Helplessness Blues, The Cascades (which makes me feel like I need to run away from New York City and join a band of traveling gypsies on and American adventure), and Blue Spotted Tail. Instaclassic.

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