First Watch: Natalie Merchant, 'Giving Up Everything' 9APR14

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First Watch: Natalie Merchant, 'Giving Up Everything'

April 9, 2014 Rarely is an artist as honest and revealing as Natalie Merchant in her new video and song, "Giving Up Everything."

http://youtu.be/oJ4KSrTBRoo

Published on Apr 9, 2014

The video for "Giving Up Everything," from Natalie's forthcoming self-titled album, due out on May 6th from Nonesuch Records.

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 cold magnificent emptiness

Give what I want for how it is
The stone inside for 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

http://www.npr.org/event/music/300700025/first-watch-natalie-merchant-giving-up-everything