easy as life

• elton john & tim rice imzası taşıyan aida'da yer alan tina turner tarafından seslendirilen bir şarkı. sözler tim rice'a müzik ise elton john'a ait..
  
  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 my self-consolation
  all i ever wanted and i'm throwing it away
  
  it's easy... 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...
  
  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
  
  and 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 prove that all the hardest things we've done
  
  are easy, so easy...
  
  and though i'll think about him until 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, it's easy as life