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Natalie Merchant – Giving Up Everything lyrics
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 whole magnificent emptiness

Gave what I want for how it is

for the stone inside and the bitterness

for the 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
The tug-of-war for some twisted truth

For the everlasting ache of it
No longer slave, not chained to it

no gate, no guard, no keeper

no guru, master, teacher

See the slow-receding faces

dissolve to black, no traces
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Songwriters: NATALIE MERCHANT
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