Elton John – Easy As Life (Guitar)

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[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