Easy As Life
Aida
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.