Easy As Life Lyrics - Elton John

This is the moment when the gods expect me 

To beg for help but I won't even try 

I want nothing in the world but myself to protect me 

But I won't lie down, roll over and die 

All I have to do is to forget how much I love him 

All I have to do is put my longing to one side 

Tell myself that love's an ever-changing situation 

Passion would have cooled and all the magic would have died 

It's easy, it's easy 

Until I think about him as he was when I last saw him 

And how he would have been were I to be with him today 

Tender in his manner and my self-consolation 

All I ever wanted and I'm throwing it away 

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It's easy, easy as life 

All I have to do is to pretend I never knew him 

On those very rare occasions when he steals into my heart 

Better to have lost him when the ties were barely binding 

Better the contempt of the familiar cannot start 

It's easy, it's easy 

Until I think about him as he was when I last touched him 

And how he would have been were I to be with him today 

Those very rare occasions don't let up, they keep on coming 

All I ever wanted and I'm throwing it away 

It's easy, it's easy as life 

And then I see the faces of a worn defeated people 

A father and a nation who won't let a coward run 

Is this how the gods reward the faithful through the ages 

Forcing us to prove that all the hardest things we've done 

Are easy, so easy 

And though I'll think about him until the earth draws in around me 

And though I choose to leave him for another kind of love 

This is no denial, no betrayal, but redemption 

Redeemed in my own eyes and in the pantheon above 

It's easy, it's easy, it's easy as life