{1} How thoughtless of me How dumb can you be? Hopeless, wasn't that What you called me and in fact It was even more true than you knew {1} Where did the end of the rope go? I forget now, did I let go? After you left me hanging on your words Which hung down like a rope Where did the end of it go? I'll never know {2} You're gone, but I'm still there Clawing at the air Now it's curtains for me And I'll spend eternity Doing joyless cartwheels in the void {2} Where did the end of the rope go? I forget now, did I let go? Long ago you left me hanging on your words Which hung down like a rope from the sky Where did the end of it go? No one can ever know {Instrumental Bridge} {3} Where did the end of the rope go? I forget now, did I let go? Once upon a time you left me hanging from your words Which hung down in the ether like a rope from the sky Wherever did the end of it go? No one can ever know Description 1 Contributor? "End of the Rope" was released in advance of They Might Be Giants' 2015 album, Glean The song speaks about the confusion and feeling of helplessness that can occur when a person you were relying on gives up on you.