They Might Be Giants – Hopeless Bleak Despair (Guitar)

  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

    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

         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#            A
In an unceremonious way

    G#m     F#m E
One day, it disappeared

E                      B7
All I had ever wanted in my life

  C#m          B7
Was only to be free of it

   G#m           C#m
It drove away my family

   F#m             B7
It made me lose my job

G#m              C#m
Whenever anybody saw it

F#m                    B
They'd say "get out of here"

    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

         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#            A
In an unceremonious way

    G#m     F#m E
One day, it disappeared

E  A        G#m      F#m
   Hopeless bleak despair

   B        A        G#m
   Hopeless bleak despair

   B        A        B   A G#m F#m 
   Hopeless bleak despair

    A         G#m     F#m          E
For years and years I wandered the earth

  A     G#m      F#m     E
Until I died and went to hell 

          B    A   G#m         F#m    
But my despair had ascended to heaven

       A     G#m         F#m    E
That's how I finally got rid of it

         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#            A
In an unceremonious way

    G#m     F#m E
One day, it disappeared

         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#            A
In an unceremonious way

    G#m     F#m E
One day, it disappeared