Hopeless Bleak Despair - They Might Be Giants

I never knew what everybody meant

By endless, hopeless, bleak despair

Until one day when I found out

The first time I ever left my house

It saw me and followed me home

And stayed with me for my whole life

For years and years I wandered the earth

Condemned to a life of bleak despair

Then, one day, I looked around and found it had disappeared

Hopeless bleak despair

It was always there

And then, one day, it disappeared

In a puff of smoke

In an unceremonious way

One day, it disappeared

All I had ever wanted in my life

Was only to be free of it

It drove away my family

It made me lose my job

Whenever anybody saw it

They’d say «get out of here»

For years and years I wandered the earth

Sick of my life, looking forward to death

Then, one day, I looked around and found it had disappeared

Hopeless bleak despair

It was always there

And then, one day, it disappeared

In a puff of smoke

In an unceremonious way

One day, it disappeared

Hopeless bleak despair

Hopeless bleak despair

Hopeless bleak despair

For years and years I wandered the earth

Until I died and went to hell

But my despair had ascended to heaven

That’s how I finally got rid of it

Hopeless bleak despair

It was always there

And then, one day, it disappeared

In a puff of smoke

In an unceremonious way

One day, it disappeared

Hopeless bleak despair

It was always there

And then, one day, it disappeared

In a puff of smoke

In an unceremonious way

One day, it disappeared