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



                            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



                            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



                            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



                            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