Hopeless Bleak Despair

# #Artist: They Might Be Giants #Song: Hopeless Bleak Despair #Album: Mink Car # #Verse 1: E B I never knew what everybody meant Amaj9/C# B By endless, hopeless, bleak despair Cdim7 E/B Until one day when I found out B F#maj7/A# B The first time I ever left my house G#7/C C#m It saw me and followed me home F#m BsusB And stayed with me for my whole life Pre Chorus: A E B E For years and years I wandered the earth A E B E Condemned to a life of bleak despair G#m A C#m F#m A Then, one day, I looked around E B E And found it had disappeared Chorus: B E Hopeless bleak despair B E It was always there A E B E And then, one day, it disappeared B E In a puff of smoke G# A In an unceremonious way E B 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: B Hopeless bleak despair E Hopeless bleak despair C# Hopeless bleak despair (arpeggios: F# A# B, E A# B, B F# B B) 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 Amaj9/C# = X47454* ... Cdim7 = 8910810X ... F#maj7/A# = 69866X** ... G#7/C = 891089X The chord diagrams above are produced automatically from the chord names submitted and are perhaps not always the best positions for this song (their Cdim7 is just plain the WRONG chord!). You'll have to figure it out for yourself, but this might help: The song's exotic chords, written out for you directly above this paragraph, are a big hint-- don't be afraid to go up the neck for a few barre chords. First position chords will work pretty well too, in most cases, but I don't think JF (or Dan?) is playing very many of those-- at least not for the first verse on the Mink Car version, although in one concert clip I can see Dan playing first position chords on the first verse. Two notes on chord substitutions: *The Amaj9/C# seems to be what's played, but good ol' C#m works very well in its place; ** The F#maj7/A# was from the concert version I referred to above, but the record seems to be just an F#maj. Yeah, I've combined the two versions a bit. So sue me.