Natalie Merchant – Giving Up Everything (Guitar)

Capo 1 Video Lesson
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` ` This is a single from the new Natalie Merchant self titled album released May 9th,2014! This song is a little strange, it doesn't actually have a chorus to speak of. ` ` ============================================================== CAPO 1 / Transpose to (-3) for simpler version ============================================================== ` ` ==VERSE==
Bm        A          F#m                 D
Giving up everything, my hungry ghost of hopefulness

Bm        A          F#m                 D         F#m   D  F#m  D
Giving up everything, not haunted by wanting this

Bm        A          F#m                 D
Giving up everything, the fortune I was saving

Bm        A          F#m                 D         F#m   D  F#m  D
Giving up everything, I mercy-killed my craving

Bm        A          F#m                 D
Giving up everything, I've opened up my eyes for this

Bm        A          F#m                       D         
Giving up everything, see the whole magnificent emptiness
` ` ==BRIDGE==
     F#m              D
Gave what I want for how it is, 

         F#m                 D
for the stone inside and the bitterness, 

        F#m               D           
for the sweetness at the core of it

Bm   A   F#m   D (x2)
`
` ==VERSE==
Bm        A          F#m                 D
Giving up everything, the master plan, the scheming

Bm        A          F#m                 D
Giving up everything, my cursed search for meaning

Bm        A          F#m                          D
Giving up everything, the compass and the map I was reading

  F#m               D       F#m           D         Bm  (Break)
The hinterlands I'm leaving,  I'm finally leaving behind
` ` ==OUTRO==
Bm        A          F#m                       D         
Giving up everything, the big to-do, the hullabaloo, 

    F#m                 D
the tug-of-war for some twisted truth. 

     F#m              D
For the everlasting ache of it 

     F#m              D
no longer slave, not chained to it 

     F#m              D
no gate, no guard, no keeper, 

     F#m              D       F#m   D
no guru, master, teacher

     F#m              D
See the slow-receding faces 
Bm (stop) dissolve to black, no traces.