Easy On Me – English Lyrics

• By: Adele
• Album: Adele

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

(distant bird squawking)

(footsteps approaching)

(distant bird squawking)

(birds chirping)

(keys jangling)

(door opening)

(door shutting) (insect buzzing)

(foliage rustling)

(phone ringing)

- Oh hey, darling.

You all right?

Yeah, I'm good, yeah, all good.

All done, everything's packed,

I'm just gonna get on the road now, about to leave.

(foliage rustling continues)

Well, hopefully just a couple of hours, but if I'm late,

go ahead and start without me, all good.

I mean, I will but we have bad signal.

I said I probably won't have good signal.

Yes, I can hear you perfectly.

Can you hear me?

Oh, for God's sakes.

(foliage rustling continues)

Here we go again.

(wind gusting)

(door opening)

(mechanism engaging)

(static hissing)

(pensive wistful music)

(vehicle approaching)

(wistful music continues)

♪ There ain't no gold in this river ♪

♪ That I've been washin' my hands in forever ♪

♪ I know there is hope in these waters ♪

♪ But I can't bring myself to swim ♪

♪ When I am drowning in this silence ♪

♪ Baby, let me in ♪

♪ Go easy on me, baby ♪

♪ I was still a child ♪

♪ Didn't get the chance to ♪

♪ Feel the world around me ♪

♪ I had no time to choose ♪

♪ What I chose to do ♪

♪ So go easy on me ♪

♪ There ain't no room for things to change ♪

♪ When we are both so deeply stuck in our ways ♪

♪ You can't deny how hard I have tried ♪

♪ I changed who I was to put you both first ♪

♪ But now I give up ♪

♪ Go easy on me, baby ♪

♪ I was still a child ♪

♪ Didn't get the chance to ♪

♪ Feel the world around me ♪

♪ Had no time to choose ♪

♪ What I chose to do ♪

♪ So go easy ♪

♪ On me ♪

♪ I had good intentions ♪

♪ And the highest hopes ♪

♪ But I know right now ♪

♪ That probably doesn't even show ♪

♪ Go easy on me, baby ♪

♪ I was still a child ♪

♪ I didn't get the chance to ♪

♪ Feel the world around me ♪

♪ I had no time to choose ♪

♪ What I chose to do ♪

♪ So go easy on me ♪

(pensive music continues)

(papers rustling)

(fan whirring)

(Adele and crew laughing)

- Okay, cut. - It's good, is it good?

- [Adele] Cut right now.

(all laughing)

- Yeah, I'm keeping that. - No, you never.

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
easy /ˈiːzi/ A1	adjective - Not difficult; requiring little effort.
child /tʃaɪld/ A1	noun - A young human being below the age of puberty or below the legal age of adulthood.
world /wɜːld/ A1	noun - The earth and all its inhabitants and things.
time /taɪm/ A1	noun - The indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.
choose /tʃuːz/ A2	verb - Pick or select (someone or something) from a number of alternatives.
change /tʃeɪndʒ/ A2	verb - make or become different. noun - the act or instance of making or becoming different.
hands /hændz/ A2	noun - The part of the body at the end of the arm.
hope /həʊp/ A2	noun - A feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.
river /ˈrɪvər/ A2	noun - A large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea, a lake, or another river.
water /ˈwɔːtər/ A1	noun - A colorless, transparent, odorless, and tasteless liquid that forms the seas, lakes, rivers, and rain and is the basis of the fluids of living organisms.
swim /swɪm/ A2	verb - Propel the body through water using the limbs.
drowning /ˈdraʊnɪŋ/ B1	verb - Die from being underwater and unable to breathe.
stuck /stʌk/ B1	adjective - unable or unwilling to move or be moved from a particular position.
tried /traɪd/ B1	verb - attempt to do or accomplish something.
intentions /ɪnˈtenʃənz/ B2	noun - A thing that you plan to do or achieve; an aim or purpose.
highest /ˈhaɪɪst/ B2	adjective - Extending or reaching far up; tall.
room /ruːm/ A2	noun - Space available for a particular purpose.

Key Grammar Structures

• ♪ There ain't no gold in this river ♪

  ➔ Contraction with negative existential 'there is/are' ('there isn't' contracted to 'ain't')

  ➔ The use of 'ain't' is informal and adds a colloquial tone. It's a contraction of 'there is not' or 'there are not'. The phrase expresses the absence of something valuable.

• ♪ I know there is hope in these waters ♪

  ➔ Present simple to express a general truth or belief.

  ➔ The sentence uses the present simple ('know', 'is') to state a belief about the existence of hope. It's not about hope *right now*, but hope in general within those waters.

• ♪ But I can't bring myself to swim ♪

  ➔ Modal verb 'can't' expressing inability or unwillingness.

  ➔ The phrase 'bring myself to' indicates a psychological barrier preventing the speaker from taking action. 'Can't' shows the speaker is unable to overcome this barrier.

• ♪ When I am drowning in this silence ♪

  ➔ Present continuous used to describe a prolonged state.

  ➔ Although 'drowning' is an action, here it's used metaphorically to describe a feeling of being overwhelmed by silence. The present continuous emphasizes the ongoing nature of this feeling.

• ♪ You can't deny how hard I have tried ♪

  ➔ Present perfect tense ('have tried') to emphasize the duration and result of past effort.

  ➔ The present perfect ('have tried') indicates that the effort happened at some point in the past and continues to have relevance to the present situation. It's not just *that* she tried, but *how much* she tried.