Easy As Life

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

And I won't lie down, roll over, and die

All I have to do is 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

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've ever wanted and I'm throwing it away

It's easy, it's easy as life

But 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 move and they're the hardest things we've done

They're easy, so easy

And though I'll think about him

'Til 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 as life

It's easy as life

It's easy as life!