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 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 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