Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida movie - Easy As Life lyrics

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Song by Tina Turner<br /><br>

This is the moment when the gods expect me<br>

To beg for help but I won't even try<br>

I want nothing in the world but myself to protect me<br>

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

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All I have to do is to forget how much I love him<br>

All I have to do is put my longing to one side<br>

Tell myself that love's an ever-changing situation<br>

Passion would have cooled and all the magic would have died<br>

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It's easy, it's easy<br>

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Until I think about him as he was when I last saw him<br>

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

Tender in his manner __ consolation<br>

All I ever wanted and I'm throwing it away<br>

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It's easy, easy as life<br>

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All I have to do is to pretend I never knew him<br>

On those very rare occasions when he steals into my heart<br>

Better to have lost him when the ties were barely binding<br>

Better the contempt of the familiar cannot start<br>

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It's easy, it's easy<br>

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Until I think about him as he was when I last touched him<br>

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

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

All I ever wanted and I'm throwing it away<br>

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It's easy, it's easy as life<br>

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And then I see the faces of a worn defeated people<br>

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

Is this how the gods reward the faithful through the ages<br>

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

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Are easy, so easy<br>

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

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

This is no denial, no betrayal, but redemption<br>

Redeemed in my own eyes and in the pantheon above<br>

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It's easy, it's easy, it's easy as life<br>

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