They Might Be Giants - Hopeless Bleak Despair Lyrics
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
All this bleak despair
It was always there
And then one day it disappeared
In a puff of smoke
In an unceremonious way
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
The one day I looked around and found
It had disappeared
All this 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
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
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They Might Be Giants Hopeless Bleak Despair Comments
Got good antidepressants? I know that feel
This is MY SONG.
That's how I finally got rid of it
This reminds me of the legend of Siddhartha; despair finds the character the first time he leaves his home.
Great Song !
I AM LISTENING TO THIS SONG WITH A GUN ON THE TABLE =/
What happened!? Please update.
Hmmm. Dont like that.
Did you do it?
@Johnny David Sanchez He did.
I tried listening to a cover of this, THAT was hopeless bleak despair
Such a beautiful pun in the title
+Adam J Duncan Sorry if I seem stupid asking this......but what pun?
dis-pair... to make two things be no longer a pair.
That's a typo. Whoever made the video just spelled the word wrong.
Im trying to look smart over here tim
Wow, I just realized how messed up this song is. Basically this guy was sheltered his whole life and when he moved out became depressed, a depression that followed him until the day he died and went to hell.
The story of my life.
I took it more metaphorically, the narrator being everyone. The first line becomes a joke, as in - all it takes is leaving the house to experience "hopeless bleak despair," it's such a part of the human condition. The hopeless bleak despair, this life-destroying force, then disappears in "a puff of smoke" as he realizes that's all it ever amounted to in the first place.
Jimby
It's even more messed up when you look at it through a religious lens. The reason he went to hell instead of heaven was because he killed himself, so the only way he ended up being able to get rid of his depression was through suicide.
This song brings me anything but hopeless bleak despair
+Chahol17 It just disappears when I listen to this song.
Ya. It feels so up beat and amazing, then I listen to the lyrics lol but I still nod my head and ssmile
This album was one of the CDs that my Dad had in his collection, and honestly this was one of the few that stuck after the years. I would even go as far as to say that Mink Car is one of my favorite albums of all time! Thank you TMBG for all of the wonderful songs, and happy memories! If there are any instrumentals from this in existence, I would cover every one of them. It would be a true honor. :)
Some tmbg instrumentals are Space Suit, Drinkin, and Glean. Minimum Wage and Darlings of Lumberland are also mostly instrumental.
love the song
I like this song, but it could almost be taken as a pro-suicide song. :-(
xnonsuchx Nothing wrong with that. Steely Dan's Any World That I'm Welcome To fits that bill too - and is equally rad!
Sorry - I know this comment is old...but it's difficult to imagine TMBG with their songs full of existential dread trying to provide a moral compass for all of us. Example:
It's a thing named "it"
In a bottomless pit
You can't see it there
The sunken head
That lies in the bed
Of a self called nowhere
Love this song!! Mink Car is one of my favorite TMBG albums; favorite Linnell tracks are Hopeless Bleak Dispair, Man It's So Loud in Here, and Hovering Sombrero. Flansy faves are Yeh Yeh, Cyclops Rock, and Another First Kiss. Awesome work from an amazing band.