ELTON JOHN - Easy As Life lyrics

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Music by elton john<br>Lyrics by tim rice<br>Elton's solo version is unreleased<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><br>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><br>It's easy, it's easy<br><br>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><br>It's easy, easy as life<br><br>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><br>It's easy, it's easy<br><br>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><br>It's easy, it's easy as life<br><br>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><br>Are easy, so easy<br><br>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><br>It's easy, it's easy, it's easy as life