Giving Up Everything

[Verse 1] Giving up everything My hungry ghost of hopefulness Giving up everything Not haunted by wanting this [Verse 2] Giving up everything The fortune I was saving Giving up everything I mercy-killed my craving [Verse 3] 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 [Instrumental] [Verse 4] 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 [Verse 5] 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 [Verse 6] See the slow-receding faces Dissolve to black, no traces [Outro]