Giving Up Everything Lyrics - Natalie Merchant - Natalie Merchant

Giving up everything 

My hungry ghost of hopefulness 

Giving up everything 

Not haunted by wanting this 

Giving up everything 

The fortune I was saving 

Giving up everything 

I mercy-killed my craving 

Giving up everything 

I've opened up my eyes for this 

Giving up everything 

See the cold magnificent emptiness 

Give what I want for how it is 

The stone inside and the bitterness 

For sweetness at the core of it 

Giving up everything 

The master plan, the scheming 

Giving up everything 

My cursed search for meaning 

Giving up everything 

The compass and the map I was reading 

The hinterlands I'm leaving 

I'm finally leaving behind 

Giving up everything 

The big to-do, the hullabaloo 

Talk of hope for some twisted truth 

For the everlasting ache of it 

No longer sleep, not chained to it 

No gate, no guard, no keeper 

No guru, master, teacher 

See the slow, see the faces 

Dissolve to black, no traces