Easy As Life

"Easy As Life" is the third song from the concept album, Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida. The song is sung by Tina Turner and Angélique Kidjo.
The song came after the Princess Aida was confronted by her captured father for her feelings for the Egyptian Leader of the Guard Radames. Her father ordered her to cut all ties with her lover, and thus she tried to convince herself that she can easily get over, or better yet, never was in love with to being with.
==Lyrics==
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Concept Version=
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
And myself consolation 
All I ever wanted
And I'm throwing it away
It's easy, it's 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
And though I'll think about him
'Til the Earth draws in around me 
And so I choose to leave him
For another kind of love
This is no denial
No betrayal, but redemption 
Redeemed in my allies
And in the pantheon above
It's easy, it's easy, it's easy as life
|-|Broadway Version=
This is the moment when the gods expect me
To beg for help but I won't even try
I want nothing in this 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
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
But then I saw 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 the hardest thing we've done
Are 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
There 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
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Category:Aida songs
Category:Musical songs
Category:Romance songs
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