Music by elton john
Lyrics by tim rice
Elton's solo version is unreleased

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 _____ consolation
All I ever wanted and I'm throwing it away

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

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• 71-75 New Oxford Street
• A Dandelion Dies in The Wind
• A Simple Man
• Abide With Me
• Amneris' Letter
• And The Clock Goes Round
• Angel Tree
• Annabella Umberella
• Another Pyramid
• Baby I Miss You
• Basque
• Big Man in a Little Suit
• Billy & The Kids
• Billy's Bag
• Breakdown Blues
• But Not for Me
• Can't Get Over Getting Over Losing You
• Candle in The Wind 1997
• Chapel of Love
• Choc Ice Goes Mental
• Conquer The Sun
• Dancing in The End Zone
• Dick Barton Theme
• Don't Stop
• Dreamboat
• Ducktail Jiver
• Earn While You Learn
• Easy as Life
• Elaborate Lives
• Enchantment Passing Through
• Fat Boys & Ugly Girls
• Flames of Paradise
• Flintstone Boy
• Fools in Fashion
• From Denver to L. a.
• Get Out
• God Knows
• Hey Papa Legba
• Highlander
• Hognuts Blues
• Honey Man
• Hour Glass
• How I Know You
• I Can't Go on Living Without You
• I Cry at Night
• I Get a Little Bit Lonely
• I Know Why I'm in Love
• I Love You & That's All That Matters
• I'm Your Man
• If I Were a Carpenter
• In The Morning
• Indian Maiden
• Into The Jungle
• Is It You
• Je Veux De La Tendresse
• Last Night
• Last to Arrive
• Les Aveux
• Like Father Like Son
• Little Island
• Lonely Boy
• Lonely Man
• Lord of The Flies
• Love Adventure
• Love is a Cannibal
• Love is Here to Stay
• Love is Worth Waiting For
• Love So Cold
• Lovesick
• Loving You is Sweeter Than Ever
• Mairi Gay Charan Ko Jatee Hay
• Marching in Milan
• Medicine Man
• Mellow Yellow
• My Strongest Suit
• Needles & Pins
• Not Me
• Queen
• Quick Joey Small
• Red
• Regimental Sergeant Zippo
• Reminds Me of You
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• Rolling Western Union
• Rope Around a Fool
• Sara's Coming Back
• Scarecrow
• Season of The Rain
• Sing Me No Sad Songs
• Sitting Doing Nothing
• Snookeroo
• Snow Queen
• Some Other World
• Someone to Watch Over Me
• Song for You
• Stand by Your Man
• Steal Away Child
• Suit of Wolves
• Sweetheart on Parade
• Tactics
• Take Me Down to The Ocean
• Taking The Sun from My Eyes
• Tartan Coloured Lady
• Thank You for All Your Loving
• That's What Friends Are For
• The Flowers Will Never Die
• The Goaldigger Song
• The Gods Love Nubia
• The Last Good Man in My Life
• The Letter
• The Man Who Never Died
• The Measure of a Man
• The Muse
• The Pacifier
• The Tide Will Turn for Rebecca
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• There's Still Time for Me
• Through The Storm
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• Timothy
• Tortured
• Trio
• Turn to Me
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• Way to Blue
• When I Was Tealby Abbey
• When The First Tear Shows
• Where It's At
• White Man Danger
• Wild Love
• Woolly Bully
• You'll Be Sorry to See Me Go