Easy As Life

Verse Ab G Ab G7 Csus4 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 situa tion. Ab6 G7 Passion would have cooled and all the magic would have died. Fm/G G7 Cm Cm Cm7 Fm/C Cm Cm Bbm/C Fm/C It's eas y. It's easy. Chorus Cm Abmaj7 Ab6 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 F/A Better to have lost him when the ties were barely binding Ab6 G7 Better the contempt of the familiar cannot start Fm/G G7 Cm Cm Cm7 Fm/C Cm Cm Bbm/C Fm/C It's eas y. It's easy. Verse 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 Cm7 Fm/C Cm Cm Bbm/C Fm/C It's eas y. Itís eas y as life. Chorus 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 BbC It's eas y. It's easy. Bridge Ab/C Abmaj7/C Bb Cm Ab6 Cm7 Cm Ab/C Bb Until I think about him as he was when I last touched him Ab/C Abmaj7/C Bb Cm Ab6 Cm7 Cm Ab/C Bb And how he would have been were I to be with him today Ab/C Abmaj7/C Bb Cm Ab6 Cm7 Cm Ab/C Bb Those very rare occasions, don't let up, they keep on coming Ab/C Abmaj7/C Bb Cm Ab6 Cm7 Cm Ab/C Bb All I ever wanted and I'm throwing it away Chorus 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 Ab/Gb G7 Cm Bbm/C Fm/C are eas y. So easy. Verse 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. It's eas y as life. It's easy as life It's easy as life