[Verse]
Ab G Ab G7 Csus4 Cm Eb/Bb
This is the moment when the gods expect me to beg for help. But I won’t even try.
Fm6 Ab Gsus G
I want nothing in the world but myself to protect me.
Fm7 Gsus G Cm Cm Cm7 Fm/C
But I won’t lie down, roll over and die.
Cm Abmaj7 Ab6
All I have to do is to forget how much I love him.
Bb9 Cm
All I have to do is put my longing to one side.
Cm/Bb F9/A F/A
Tell myself that love’s an ever changing situa tion.
Ab6 G7
Passion would have cooled and all the magic would have died.
Fm/G G7 Cm Cm Cm7 Fm/C Cm Cm Bbm/C Fm/C
It’s eas y. It’s easy.
[Chorus]
Cm Abmaj7 Ab6
All I have to do is to pretend I never knew him
Bb9 Cm
On those very rare occasions when he steals into my heart
Cm/Bb F9/A F/A
Better to have lost him when the ties were barely binding
Ab6 G7
Better the contempt of the familiar cannot start
Fm/G G7 Cm Cm Cm7 Fm/C Cm Cm Bbm/C Fm/C
It’s eas y. It’s easy.
[Verse]
Fm7/Ab G7sus G7
Until I think about him as he was when I last saw/touched him.
Fm7/Ab G7sus G7
And how he would have been were I to be with him today.
Bbm7/Db C7#5 C7
1) Tender in his manner and my self conso la tion.
2) Those very rare occasions don’t let up, they keep on coming.
Bbm7 G/B C
All I ever wanted and I’m throwing it away.
Fm/G G7sus G7 Fm/G G7 Cm Cm7 Fm/C Cm Cm Bbm/C Fm/C
It’s eas y. Itís eas y as life.
[Chorus]
Cm Cm/Bb Cm Cm/Bb Fmaj7
All I have to do is to pretend I never knew him.
Bb9 Cm
On those very rare occasions when he steals into my heart.
Cm/Bb F9/A
Better to have lost him when the ties were barely binding.
Ab6 Gsus G7
Better the contempt of the familiar cannot start.
Fm/G G7 Cm7 BbC
It’s eas y. It’s easy.
[Bridge]
Ab/C Abmaj7/C Bb Cm Ab6 Cm7 Cm Ab/C Bb
Until I think about him as he was when I last touched him
Ab/C Abmaj7/C Bb Cm Ab6 Cm7 Cm Ab/C Bb
And how he would have been were I to be with him today
Ab/C Abmaj7/C Bb Cm Ab6 Cm7 Cm Ab/C Bb
Those very rare occasions, don’t let up, they keep on coming
Ab/C Abmaj7/C Bb Cm Ab6 Cm7 Cm Ab/C Bb
All I ever wanted and I’m throwing it away
[Chorus]
Cm Cm7 Fm7
And then I see the faces of a worn defeated people.
Bb9 Cm7
A father and a nation who won’t let a coward run.
Cm7/Bb Cm/A F/A
Is this how the gods reward the faithful through the a ges?
Fm/Ab Fm9/Ab G7
Forcing us to prove that all the hardest things we’ve done
Ab/Gb G7 Cm Bbm/C Fm/C
are eas y. So easy.
[Verse]
Fm/Ab G7sus G7
And though I’ll think about him until the earth draws in around me.
Fm/Ab G7sus G7
And though I choose to leave him for another kind of love.
Bbm7/Db C7#5 C7
This is no denial, no betrayal, but re demp tion.
Bbm7 G/B C
Redeemed in my own eyes and in the pantheon above.
Fm/G G7 Fm/G G7sus G7 Cm Ab Abmaj7 G7sus Cm
It’s eas y. It’s eas y as life.
It’s easy as life
It’s easy as life
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