Easy

About someone who can manipulate another for their own gain. He realizes what is going on, but he relents and allows himself to be manipulated by his emotions. Eventually, he has enough and decides that he's going to do the same to her.

Call it self defense You can oft escape

I believe it's obfuscate, not oft escape. :)

This song, to me, signals a change in the themes within BNL's music. Most BNL songs seem to centre around a character who appears to have surrendered control of his life to the forces of determinism (the ironic message embedded in the lyrics being that we DO have control over what happens in our lives, and that change IS possible). This is the only BNL song I can think of where the central character actually sticks up for himself and exercises control over his life (although not until the end; he allows himself to be manipulated in the earlier parts of the song).

At the start of the song it sounds like the protaganist is in love with another person who doesn't feel the same way for them. The protaganist is throwing the thought around in their head, knowing that they'll do anything in the world for this person and do anything to avoid hurting them (even convincing themselves that it's not such a bad thing to be a tool.)

By the second verse the protaganist is starting to open up their eyes, and judging by past failures is well aware where this relationship is going to end up. Every time the object of their desire tries something new to get the protaganist back without making a full commitment it just makes the protaganist more and more aware.

By the bridge the protaganist has finally opened up their eyes and reached their conclusion knowing what he/she already knows from previous mistakes. So instead of waiting for it to get there slowly and painfully the protaganist takes action into his/her own hands and is now using their own type of manipulation to get back at the former object of his/her desire.

I think that the chorus is all about how easy it is to fall into and out of love. At first it's easy to love somebody, they make it easy with every smile and every blink of their eyes. But then every time that they don't pick you, and every time they look to you for emotional support without giving more than their problems they make it easy to fall out of love with that person.

by Droidac on 10-03-2006 @ 03:34:27 PM
This has to be one of the WORST songs I've heard in a long, long time. I can't even think about the meaning of this, because of the unbelievable repetitivness of the the chorus. Seriously, how many times does he say "make it easy" in this song - 40 times? 50 times? I just can't stand songs where they just give up trying to write decent lyrics. If you can't use your imagination, make it an instrumental song!

droidac, the only reason u have given for this song being bad is that it repeats itself at the chorus (what a rookie mistake eh?) and that the lyrics aren't up to your personal standard, if u listened to most of the crap found in the top 100 u would find much worse songs to criticise for their lyrical content than this as well as most songs being nowhere near as good as 'easy' musically, so unless u have a valid reason for a song as good as this being "one of the worst songs i've heard in a long, long time" i suggest u go write better lyrics or go fuck yourself

Hippo man, how did you get sucked into that? The guy posted that Easy by BNL is "the worst song I've heard in a long time". When you see something that rediculous you just toss it aside and move on. There are people with no musical taste who make comments on here all the time. Ignore them. They usually listen to Bobby Sherman and think it's REALLY GOOD, specially that Julie, julie do ya love me song.

Well, if make such a stupid attack on a song (worst I’ve heard in a very long time, the pussycat dolls are still out there remember) - expect some feedback. The subject matter has been done before I’m sure, but how many songs have been written before, and what are the chances of writing completely original lyrics? I don’t know where you are - but living in Scotland, this song never even comes near a radio playing so it’s good to hear this genre for a change

The repetition of this song creates a peaceful tone; surprisingly enough, a song can repeat to give other justified effects than intensity. The lyrics also repeat to build up to a bridge section in which he explains what is 'easy': Easy to be with you Easy to obey Easy to forgive you at the end of the day Easy now to judge you Easy to betray Easy to adore you though you want to run away.

By holding back the full meaning of this chorus lyric, the bridge section has a larger lyrical impact on the listener. When saying the word 'easy' during the chorus, long, extended notes are used which give the chorus this relaxed mood. The verse is quite different melodically from the chorus; the progression to the second verse has much more of an impact than the first verse due to the chorus preceding it, the drummer also introduces the use of his snare drum in verse 2 to put the song into a 'standard' rhythm which drives the song forward - the song has small changes like this which all build up until the bridge. Although it's not exactly an 'intense' build up, it is gradual and gives the mood of this song. Being a guitarist, I also appreciate the skill and melody of the rhythm guitar as well as the lead guitar's sound and 'more is less' approach. I also appreciated the skill and melodies of the vocalists. There are a few reasons why I like this song and I'm really sorry for the last line I wrote in my previous comment - I was having a bad day.

Hey stever, why don't you just mind your own business? , instead of adding your pointless comments? Bobby Sherman? Please, is that the best you can do? Besides, it looks as though you're a big fan, quoting lyrics like that.

Mr. Hippo, you made some good points, so I went back and gave the song another chance. Listening to it on a decent stereo as opposed to the crappy system at work, yes, this song is actually not too bad. Still far from my favorite, but pretty decent.

Just as you were having a bad day when you first replied, so was I when I first posted. I live in Canada where we have content regulations that state 36% of all music played on the radio must be Canadian, that's why they play BNL quite a bit. the crappy station that they play at the office was playing this song several times a day. Multiple plays+bad sound system=poor impression of the song.

It would be nice if people could refrain from personal attacks and lets just talk about the music (good and bad)!

The bad thing about this song is that it does sound repetitive and like a cop-out unless you actually sit down and immerse yourself in the lyrics. After doing that you can get a sense of how insanely deep it is.

This is what I think about the song.

The protagonist is in love with a woman who is "Damaged goods" perhaps she's jaded or just a little crazy but she doesnt easily accept his advances, when he is finally allowed to love her she reacts as she always does, by pushing him away, by manipulating and playing mindgames because that's the only way she knows how to be in a relationship.

The song seems to me that, in the beginning he's just elated to have her but he begins to wonder if their love is worth putting up with the manipulation and her attempts to push him away.

Gah, you're right. I was wondering why that line didn't seem to fit properly, but that makes far more sense. Thanks! :D