relinquish

give up; part with a possession or right

Heard in 56 songs (21M+ combined views) — most famously in "Sun//Eater" by Lorna Shore.

Updated August 3, 2026

Songs Featuring “relinquish

Lorna Shore - Sun//Eater

Time: 2:44

Despairing plunge into the omniverse

Sinking deeper, we relinquish pasts

As we forget the difference

Lorna Shore - Sun//Eater

Lil Wayne - THANKFUL

Time: 3:54

I cut off these strangers and ifs ands and buts of the strangers

I never relinquish, I'm thanking Franklin as an acquaintance

Destiny danger, I done seen from every angle

Lil Wayne - THANKFUL

Savage Garden - Promises

Time: 1:05

Don't you know that powerful thinking

Can be a force you don't want to relinquish?

Well don't you know that

Savage Garden - Promises

Bad Religion - Sorrow [Acoustic]

Time: 1:14

When all soldiers lay their weapons down

Or when all kings and all queens relinquish their crowns

Or when the only true Messiah rescues us from ourselves

Bad Religion - Sorrow [Acoustic]

Within Temptation - Aquarius

Time: 1:46

(You call to me, you set me free)

I relinquish

To your powers

Within Temptation - Aquarius

Cypress Hill - Steel Magnolia

Time: 2:08

With fixed sights that drifted to right, triggers light

So relinquish son, I'm to the finish, and you acknowledge

Couldn't pop a clutch or light a skyrocket, nigga stop it!

Cypress Hill - Steel Magnolia

Mariah Carey - Heartbreaker [Album Version]

Time: 1:49

When you smile at me and you tell me the things

That you know persuade me to relinquish my love to you

But I cannot resist at all

Mariah Carey - Heartbreaker [Album Version]

Kero Kero Bonito - Battle Lines

Time: 1:59

I surrender

And I relinquish all my weapons

We together

Kero Kero Bonito - Battle Lines

Dave Matthews - Halloween

Time: 1:02

I will give you lightning

I will not relinquish light

Dave Matthews - Halloween

Billy Squier - I Need You

Time: 2:19

And I forget all my sorrow, I forget all my pain

I relinquish my doubts at the sound of your name

I can feel your desire when I walk through that door

Billy Squier - I Need You

Judas Priest - Conquest

Time: 4:20

Heaven sent, be vigilant

Don't relinquish

Judas Priest - Conquest

The Honorary Title - Stay Away

Time: 0:40

It's too soon

Separate yourself from what compels you to relinquish us

Push your weight on to me... entirely

The Honorary Title - Stay Away

All That Remains - Relinquish

Time: 0:28

Follow the lead to failure

Relinquish and pay no mind

Follow the lead to failure

All That Remains - Relinquish

Manchester Orchestra - Bed Head

Time: 0:50

Oh my God

Let me relinquish and start to distinguish my past, and my time

You and I are oil and fire, so

Manchester Orchestra - Bed Head

Malevolent Creation - Eve of the Apocalypse

Time: 2:01

All shall melt under one sign

Relinquish your life

A new lease of power has been sent forth

Malevolent Creation - Eve of the Apocalypse

Darko US - BLOOD HOST

Time: 0:28

It echoes in my mind, it permeates deep in my bones

How can I relinquish that which has no name

But knows exactly what's here in my soul?

Darko US - BLOOD HOST

Arrested Development - Ease My Mind

Time: 3:15

It's that bond that will keep the movement movin' on.

And so I GOTTA BE READY TO RELINQUISH

Gotta be ready to relinquish, my breath of life for struggle.

Arrested Development - Ease My Mind

ANOXIA - Relinquish The Quiet

Time: 0:51

For every heart that's ever screamed in silence

Relinquish the quiet

Been searching for ways to save my soul

ANOXIA - Relinquish The Quiet

Meshuggah - God He Sees In Mirrors

Time: 2:33

Despot in guise of savior

Any blame he will carelessly relinquish

Like shedding his skin

Meshuggah - God He Sees In Mirrors

The Antlers - Revisited

Time: 4:37

Can you see the secret exit? The false wall in obsession?

You'll only fit through the doorway when you relinquish your possessions

So leave everything you've stolen that you can't give back

The Antlers - Revisited

Future Islands - Give Me the Ghost Back

Time: 0:53

Gimme the ghost back

What goes when I relinquish sin?

What's that beating in?

Future Islands - Give Me the Ghost Back

The Word Alive - Terminal

Time: 0:18

I will bring you down

I can't relinquish my grip

I know that you're breathing but do better than this

The Word Alive - Terminal

VNV Nation - Carry You

Time: 2:37

Lay down your greatest burden

Relinquish that which has control of you

And let yourself through

VNV Nation - Carry You

The Tragically Hip - The Dark Canuck

Time: 3:27

Let's don't compare

Let's relinquish all our holidays

And drive-in premieres

The Tragically Hip - The Dark Canuck

NOFX - Secret Society

Time: 1:34

Abolute power and hierarchy, in O/our secret

Relinquish CONTROL, for true freedom

Give up THE REIGNS, surrender your FREE WILL

NOFX - Secret Society

Erykah Badu - Dial Afreaq

Time: 0:37

Making it impossible for them hoes to find their way back to the hive

It is unlikely that the world will ever, ever, ever relinquish the convenience of cell phones

Plus how we gon' call Tyrone to help us come get our shit

Erykah Badu - Dial Afreaq

The Acacia Strain - Walled City

Time: 3:13

Barely conscious barely alive

I relinquish my right my will to survive

As my lungs fill with heat and sand

The Acacia Strain - Walled City

Shaquille O'Neal - SHAQ & KOBE [Remix]

Time: 2:34

12 out of ten, the only type of hoes I link with

Huey, Duece, or Dodie told me if I'm gon' relinquish

Then a billion dollars better be what I'm in sync with

Shaquille O'Neal - SHAQ & KOBE [Remix]

Stevie Rizo - Beautiful

Time: 1:38

I had to let it go, so much beauty in, just let it go

Relinquish the need of being seen

Relinquish the need of living out my worldly dreams

Stevie Rizo - Beautiful

Rise Against - Grammatizator

Time: 0:35

Contemplate contracts of gold

Just wave your hand and relinquish control

Nine lives await to unfold

Rise Against - Grammatizator

Suffocation - Subconsciously Enslaved

Time: 1:34

How would it feel to rip you in half

To relinquish the mind may invoke a path

Destined to bring oneself closer to the truth

Suffocation - Subconsciously Enslaved

Belphegor - Hail The New Flesh

Time: 1:58

Flams so high - of desire

Relinquish my seed - through torment

Fukk you, u fukking whore...

Belphegor - Hail The New Flesh

Machine Head - Vim

Time: 0:43

We have to face up to the truth

Relinquish every grudge or bruise

Every ounce of strength grasps one solid dream

Machine Head - Vim

Davido - Mary Jane

Time: 2:33

Just try ditinguish yourself

Or rather you relinquish your health

She do things that bad girls do

Davido - Mary Jane

The Mavericks - The End of the Line (Jim Baker)

Time: 1:05

The time has finally come

To relinquish the throne that doesn't belong

For only you can tell

The Mavericks - The End of the Line (Jim Baker)

Iridium - AHIRA

Time: 0:40

Looking for answers deep inside and yet I cannot find

The prospect of this beckoning consequence that will relinquish time

Our bodies will bleed into the black seas

Iridium - AHIRA

Edwin McCain - The Rhythm of Life

Time: 1:53

Reflections of horror invade

Running and falling relinquish your venom

The antidote surely will cause your affliction to fade

Edwin McCain - The Rhythm of Life

Into Eternity - Out

Time: 0:57

Walking blind

Abandon hope relinquish

Undo this creation

Into Eternity - Out

Akron/Family - Ed Is a Portal

Time: 1:36

And damned if we don't try

To sort of relinquish the reigns our

Brains their mass has gravity

Akron/Family - Ed Is a Portal

Labrinth - Can't Cure This

Time: 0:11

Every pound and dollar like a bandage

But the scars keep flowing, they don't relinquish, no

Stupid motherfucker

Labrinth - Can't Cure This

Y&T - Masters and Slaves

Time: 1:38

It's the law of the jungle, only winners have rights

The losers relinquish their lives

So, you think you're made

Y&T - Masters and Slaves

Hawksley Workman - Claire Fontaine

Time: 2:04

Claire Fontaine

But as a foreigner relinquisher

Pad of paper so distinguished

Hawksley Workman - Claire Fontaine

Jill Marie Cooper - Closure (Acoustic)

Time: 0:44

But desire's not enough

To relinquish away the doubt

Yes, it's closure now

Jill Marie Cooper - Closure (Acoustic)

Shawn Colvin - Roger Wilco

Time: 0:53

I relinquish this mission, sir, in the interest of my men

I do not expect to see my children again

Shawn Colvin - Roger Wilco

Nothingface - Grinning

Time: 2:47

From limb should I ever

Relinquish this control...

But that shall never be...

Nothingface - Grinning

Niecy Blues - Exit Simulation

Time: 0:17

Relinquish your things

You've got somewhere to be

Niecy Blues - Exit Simulation

Squeeze - This Road

Time: 1:04

Loving every single breath

Ready to relinquish control

Squeeze - This Road

RZA - Let the Record Spin (Interlude)

Time: 0:47

Ghostface offers Lester the use of his power

But only if he agrees to relinquish his body

And soul once the ghastly deed is complete

RZA - Let the Record Spin (Interlude)

Rae Morris - Better Man

Time: 0:02

Relinquished pride

It's no good for you

Rae Morris - Better Man

Collective Soul - Link

Time: 0:56

I'm sleeping, sleeping to develop myself

I wake up, wake up then relinquish what's left

With my anger well diffused

Collective Soul - Link

Rancid - Cocktails

Time: 1:50

Unstoppable for you and me

She won't relinquish herself to you, and I sense an emergency

She can cry, she can hide in the lower east side

Rancid - Cocktails

Sentient - Cascading

Time: 1:01

Not even in my sleep

It won't relinquish

No, the fire is in my dreams

Sentient - Cascading

Ozma - I Wonder

Time: 2:08

But faith, it is a knowing thing

Relinquish all control of things

And submit yourself to loving in the highest light

Ozma - I Wonder

Julia Fordham - Jacob's Ladder

Time: 1:03

I would hand over my soul

I'd relinquish all control

To any of the angels climbing down

Julia Fordham - Jacob's Ladder

Art d'Ecco - A Change Of Scenery

Time: 2:15

(please take me there)

I'll relinquish what's been lost

It all escaped somehow

Art d'Ecco - A Change Of Scenery

Phantom High - Suicide

Time: 3:00

You take this farce this cause

Relinquish

Humanity

Phantom High - Suicide