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.