They Might Be Giants - Hopeless Bleak Despair guitar tab

Artist: They Might Be Giants

Song: Hopeless Bleak Despair

Album: Mink Car

Verse 1:

E B7

I never knew what everybody meant

C#m B7

By endless, hopeless, bleak despair

G#m C#m

Until one day when I found out

F#m B7

The first time I ever left my house

G#m C#m

It saw me and followed me home

F#m B

And stayed with me for my whole life

Pre Chorus:

A G#m F#m E

For years and years I wandered the earth

A G#m F#m E

Condemned to a life of bleak despair

B A G#m F#m A

Then, one day, I looked around

G#m F#m E

And found it had disappeared

Chorus:

B E

Hopeless bleak despair

B E

It was always there

A G#m F#m E

And then, one day, it disappeared

B E

In a puff of smoke

G#

In an unceremonious way

A G#m F#m E

One day, it disappeared

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