EASY – English Lyrics

• By: Jess Glynne
• Album: JESS: The Album

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

Open my eyes, and nothing's changed

The same old shit but a different day

I see the lies, gotta walk away

I'm sick and tired of playing games

I wanna take it back to basics

I'm done with overcompensating

With you, it doesn't feel so jaded

'Cause when it comes down to it

You make it easy when it's not easy

When I get that feeling, just breathing's hard

You make it easy, give me what's needed

When I am in my head, laying in the dark

You make it easy

You make it easy

I took a sip, I took a dose

That didn't change the feeling, though

Right on the edge, I was so close

You pulled me back, God only knows

You said, "I wanna take it back to basics

I'm done with overcompensating

With you, it doesn't feel so jaded"

'Cause when it comes down to it

Oh, you make it easy when it's not easy

When I get that feeling, just breathing's hard

You make it easy, give me what's needed

When I am in my head, laying in the dark

You make it easy

You make it easy

You make it easy

You make it easy

You saw me on my knees when the sky was falling

Left on "Read", nothing said, but you kept on calling

It was cold, it was dark, stop the rain from pouring down, down, down

Oh

You saw me on my knees when the sky was falling

Left on "Read", nothing said, but you kept on calling

It was cold, it was dark, stop the rain from pouring down, down, down

You make it easy when it's not easy

When I get that feeling, just breathing's hard

You make it easy, give me what's needed

When I am in my head, laying in the dark

You make it easy (You saw me on my knees when the sky was falling)

You make it easy (Left on "Read", nothing said, but you kept on calling)

So easy (It was cold, it was dark, stop the rain from pouring down, down, down)

You make it easy

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Key Grammar Structures

• I'm sick and tired of playing games

  ➔ Adjective + Preposition + Gerund

  ➔ This structure expresses frustration or boredom with an action. The pattern is "be sick/tired of + "doing something"". Here, "playing games" is the gerund.

• I'm done with overcompensating

  ➔ "Be done with" + Gerund

  ➔ This phrase indicates the completion or cessation of an action, often with a sense of finality or rejection. The structure is "be done with + "doing something"". "Overcompensating" is the gerund.

• You make it easy when it's not easy

  ➔ Causative Verb "Make" + Object + Adjective

  ➔ "Make" is used here to show that someone causes something to become a certain way. The structure is "make + "it" + adjective". "Easy" describes the state "it" is made into. The "when" clause acts as a conditional or time clause.

• When I get that feeling, just breathing's hard

  ➔ Time Clause + Gerund as Subject

  ➔ The clause "When I get that feeling" sets the condition or time. "Breathing" (the act of breathing) acts as the subject of the main clause, followed by the verb "is" (contracted to "'s") and the adjective "hard".

• You make it easy, give me what's needed

  ➔ Passive Voice (Noun Clause)

  ➔ "What's needed" is a noun clause where the verb "need" is in the passive voice ("is needed"). It refers to "that which is required or essential."

• You pulled me back, God only knows

  ➔ Phrasal Verb + Idiomatic Expression

  ➔ "Pulled back" is a phrasal verb meaning to retrieve or save someone from a difficult situation. "God only knows" is an idiom used to express that something is unknown or unknowable.

• You saw me on my knees when the sky was falling

  ➔ Past Simple + Past Continuous + Idiom/Metaphor

  ➔ "Saw" is in the simple past. "Was falling" is in the past continuous, describing an ongoing action in the past. "On my knees" is an idiom meaning in a state of desperation or weakness. "The sky was falling" is a metaphor for a catastrophic situation.

• Left on 'Read', nothing said, but you kept on calling

  ➔ Passive Voice (Elliptical) + Phrasal Verb "Keep on"

  ➔ "Left on 'Read'" implies "I was left on 'Read'," using an elliptical passive voice to describe a state. "Kept on calling" uses the phrasal verb "keep on" followed by a gerund, meaning to continue doing something.

• ...stop the rain from pouring down...

  ➔ "Stop + Object + from + Gerund"

  ➔ This structure is used to indicate that an action prevents something from happening. "The rain" is the object, and "pouring down" is the gerund describing the action being prevented.