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....
[Verse 1]
Don't despair
You're there
From beginning to middle, to end
Don't despair
You're there through my wasted days
You're there through my wasted nights
Oh despair
You've always been there
You've always been there
You've always been there
You were there through my wasted years
Through all my lonely fears
[Pre-Chorus]
No tears
Run through my fingers, tears
They're stinging my eyes, no tears
If it's all in my head
There's nothing to fear, nothing to fear inside
Through the darkness and the light
Some sun has got to rise
[Hook]
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
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
[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)
Despair was written by Karen O & Brian Chase & Nick Zinner.
Despair was produced by Nick Launay & David Andrew Sitek.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs released Despair on Fri Apr 12 2013.