All These People

It’s called Helplessness Blues for a number of reasons. One, it’s kind of a funny title. Secondly, one of the prevailing themes of the album is the struggle between who you are and who you want to be or who you want to end up, and how sometimes you are the only thing getting in the way of that. That idea shows up in a number of the songs.

Robin Pecknold

Regardless if you like the Fleet Foxes or not, if you can’t relate to that quote at all, congratulations because you have everything figured out in the world, forever.