Artist: They Might Be Giants Song: Hopeless Bleak Despair Album: Mink Car Verse 1:

I ^Enever knew what everybody ^B7meant By^C#m endless, hopeless, b^B7leak despair Un^G#mtil one day when I fo^C#mund out Th^F#me first time I ever left m^B7y house It^G#m saw me and followed me h^C#mome And st^F#mayed with me for my whole life^B

Pre Chorus:

For ye^Aars and ^G#myears I w^F#mandered the ear^Eth Co^Andemned to a l^G#mife of bl^F#meak despa^Eir Th^Ben, o^Ane da^G#my, I lo^F#moked ar^Aound And fou^G#mnd it had^F#m disappe^Eared

Chorus:

Hopeless ble^Bak despa^Eir It was alw^Bays ther^Ee And^A then, on^G#me day, it d^F#misappeared ^E In a pu^Bff of smo^Eke In an^G# unceremonious way On^Ae day^G#m, it d^F#misappear^Eed

Verse 2: 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" Pre Chorus: 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 Chorus: 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 Bridge: Hopeless bleak despair Hopeless bleak despair Hopeless bleak despair Pre Chorus: 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 Chorus: 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

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