Despair Lyrics

[Verse 2]
Oh despair
You're there through my wasted days
You're there through my wasted nights
You're there through my wasted years
You're there through my wasted life

You've always been there
You've always been there
You've always been there
You were there through my wasted years
Through all of my lonely fears

[Pre-Chorus]
No tears
Run through my fingers, tears
They're stinging my eyes, no tears
We're all on the edge
There's nothing to fear, nothing to fear inside
Through the darkness and the light
Some sun has got to rise

[Chorus]
My sun is your sun
My sun is your sun
My sun is your sun
My sun is your sun
Their sun is our sun
Their sun is our sun
Their sun is our sun
(Some sun has got to rise)
My sun is your sun
My sun is your sun
My sun is your sun
My sun is your sun
Their sun is our sun
Their sun is our sun
Their sun is our sun
Their sun is our sun (Some sun has got to rise)

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Genius Annotation

This aching anthem finds Karen O singing about wasted days and nights and tears stinging her eyes, before concluding, “Nothing to fear.”

It is one of the most melancholic tracks on Mosquito but drummer Brian Chase told Spin magazine he feels it reflects the album’s “wise and peaceful sense of love.” He explained:

“Love has always been there in different forms. In the form it takes on Fever to Tell, it’s very wild and passionate. This one seems to be not quite omniscient, but can see situations from the other side, so there’s a peaceful sense to it, but at the same time, encouraging whatever it is to go through its process.”

The music video was directed by Patrick Daughters, who had also notably directed the video for “Maps” ten years prior.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCzgftmUSXo

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Release Date
April 12, 2013
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