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
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 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
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 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
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 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 you would wait tables
 And soon run the store
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 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