Guitar Tab:Hopeless Bleak Despair

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Hopeless Bleak Despair
By: They Might Be Giants
Key: E Major
Year: 2001
Tabbed By: JJRRutgers and sapphirebullets

  E                         B/D#
I never knew what everybody meant
  Aadd9/C#                  Bsus4
By endless, hopeless, bleak despair
  Cdim7                  E/B
Until one day when I found out
  F#/A#                       B5
The first time I ever left my house
  G#/B# *(B#=C)           C#m
It saw me and followed me home
      F#m                      Bsus4 B
And stayed with me for my whole life

    Aadd9      E/G#      F#7sus4      E
For years and years I wandered the earth
  Aadd9       E/G#      F#7sus4     E
Condemned to a life of bleak despair
G#5  A5   C#5   F#5    A
Then, one day, I looked around
E/G#      Badd11     E
And found it had disappeared

            B       E
Hopeless bleak despair
          B       E
It was always there
   A        E/G#    Badd11/F#  E
And then, one day, it disappeared
       B        E
In a puff of smoke
     G#
In an unceremonious way
  A    E/G#   B/F#     E
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


B7 A/C# B6/D# B7/D#
Hopeless bleak despair
E  E9    G#+7
Hopeless bleak despair
C#   C#9       F#add11 Eadd#11 B
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