Easy To Be Hard -- Three Dog Night (in HD)

Lyrics:

How can people be so heartless
How can people be so cruel
Easy to be hard
Easy to be cold

How can people have no feelings
How can they ignore their friends
Easy to be proud
Easy to say no

And especially people
Who care about strangers
Who care about evil
And social injustice
Do you only
Care about the Be-in crowd?
How about a needing friend?
I need a friend

How can people be so heartless
You know I'm hung up on you
Easy to be proud
Easy to say no

And especially people
Who care about strangers
Who say they care about evil and social injustice
Do you only care about the Be-in crowd?
How about a needing friend?
Oh need a friend

How can people be so heartless
How can people be so cruel
Easy to be proud
Easy to say no
Easy to be cold
Easy to say no
C'mon Easy to give in
Easy to say no
Easy to be cold
Easy to say no
Easy to say no

Category:

Music

Tags:

• easy to be hard
• Three Dog Night
• Hair

[KaptSonic22]

I'm normally not a nit-picker, but in the lyrics, it's not a bleeding crowd, it's a Be-In Crowd. That was a term from the times this song came from. To be a part of the Be-In Crowd meant you were just trying to fit in with the boring mainstream of the time and not really being yourself. Something like that. My apologies if someone's already commented on this. It's not that big of a deal :)

[rockwithstone]

@KaptSonic22 Corrected....I think. Please check and let me know.

[jennykennypants]

Does any one know where the groups name " 3 Dog Night" came from ?? I heard an explanation on the radio once, but don't know how true it is ... This song IS one of the best from these guys!!!!

[rockwithstone]

@jennykennypants From Wikipedia:

vocalist Danny Hutton's then-girlfriend June Fairchild suggested the name after reading a magazine article about indigenous Australians, in which it was explained that on cold nights they would customarily sleep in a hole in the ground whilst embracing a dingo, a native species of wild dog. On colder nights they would sleep with two dogs and if the night was freezing, it was a "three dog night".

[RealH0rr0rsh0w]

Before I kill you, I'm going to throw your baby out the window.

[MrJimbeauknows]

@KaptSonic22 ...somebody changed it to "be-in" crowd, but that is wrong...it IS the "Bleeding" crowd...that is what was written and what is being sung...BLEEDING...

[MrJimbeauknows]

You were right the first time...it is the BLEEDING crowd...not the be-in crowd.

[TickedOffPsyduck]

One person is trollin'

[oldplatterman]

How can people be so heartless

How can people be so cruel

Easy to be hard

Easy to be cold

Sweet music ........ from a time of innocence and war .

[55102]

the message is good today as is it was then

[AnthonysDen]

@jlmusicfan57 No one else could put it better than how you went & described it. Well said!

[jlmusicfan57]

The lyrics to this song are still powerful today forty years after the song first came out. To bad the youth of today are not exposed to such thought provoking songs as this classic; considering all of the stuff, (violence with guns, hate crimes, gangs, etc.) that exist in the schools of America.

[No1KCfan6]

great sounding

[ammittei]

@tessiemike1 Especially people who care about strangers...who care about evil and social injustice.

[tessiemike1]

@ammittei easy to say no....who caare about evil.......how can ppl be so heartless?