Dar Williams - The Easy Way (02.03.2009) Fort Lauderdale

Dar Williams performs The Easy Way off her album The Promised Land with full band.

Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale, FL
http://www.darwilliams.com/

I knew a guy
I thought he was my first love
But he had to decide
Between me and the one before
And she stacked it all up
Like a house of cards
Said if he didn't come back
He'd find her flattened on the floor
And though I went and lived in my own hell
Thought that I could die as well
I let him go where he thought he had to go

Cause I never took heavy words for granted
And I never took the undeserved advantage
No I never took the easy way
So, why don't you take it a little easy on me now

Out on the road I had so many questions
I thought I would explode
Just for some attention
Like an acolyte
I saw the flames of towering tapers
Almost proselytized by those flaming piles of papers
Yeah I watched the power huddles
And the coats draped over puddles
And the "trust me baby, I'm the one you need"

But I never took heavy words for granted
And I never took the undeserved advantage
No I never took the easy way
So, why don't you take it a little easy on me now

We don't want to be the ones
Who lie and cheat and slander
So we hold each other up
To a higher standard
But I'll tell you what
I never tried to make it hard
Cause when you're hard just to be hard,
The only thing that's hard is you

So here's what I took
I kept the wine and laughter
Until every path
Just grew up in ever after
Through the peaks and twisty canyons
I made many great companions
Best of all is the one that loves me like you do

But I never took heavy words for granted
And I never took, the undeserved advantage
No I never took the easy way
So, why don't you take it a little easy on me now

Cause I never took heavy words for granted
And it's much too late to even want the shortcut
Yeah I never took the easy way
So, why don't you take it a little easy on me now
Cause we know that easy is never easy anyhow

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Dar
• Williams
• live
• The
• Easy
• Way
• Promised
• Land

[FutureDeadPerson]

I can never seem to get over just how brilliant she is. Thanks for posting!