Easy As Life {Words and Music by Elton John & Tim Rice} Ab G Ab G7 Cm(sus4) 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 situ ñ a - tion. Ab6 G7 Passion would have cooled and all the magic would have died. Fm/G G7 | Cm * | Cm Cm7 ñ Fm/C | Cm * | Cm Bbm/C ñ Fm/C | It's eas - y. It's easy. VERSE2 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 Cm7ñFm/C | Cm * | Cm Bbm/CñFm/C | It's eas - y. Itís eas - y as life. 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 * | * Bbm/C-Fm/C | It's eas - y. It's easy. REPEAT VERSE 2 Instr: | Ab/C Abmaj7/C | Bb | Cm ñ Ab6 ñ Cm7 | Cm | Ab/C | Bb | 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 ñ Ab/Gb G7 | Cm * | * Bbm/C-Fm/C | are eas - y. So easy. 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. Itís eas - y as life.