Lyrics to
It Ain’t Easy

This version of It Ain’T Easy was released by Three Dog Night in 1970.

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When you go up on the mountain top
And you look out across the sea
And you know there’s another place perhaps
A young man can be
And you jump down to the rooftop
And you look out across the town
And you know there’s a lot of strange things
Circulatin’ round

But it ain’t easy,
It ain’t easy, it ain’t easy
To go ahead when your going’ down

Well, the people have their problems
But that ain’t nothing new
Well the hope and understanding
Can bring you on through
Well it can bring you on through
It can take you to the end
And that, ooh, woman, she can bring you down again

But it ain’t easy,
It ain’t easy, it ain’t easy
To go ahead when your going’ down

Satisfaction, satisfaction, tell me who is satisfied
When she, ooh, she take it in
And she hold it deep inside
And she hold it in too deep
And she bite it with her teeth
And that, ooh woman, she can give you some relief

But it ain’t easy,
It ain’t easy, it ain’t easy
To go ahead when your going’ down

It ain’t easy when you’re goin’ down

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Three Dog Night has released many songs over the years besides It Ain’T Easy. Three Dog Night released songs from 1968 to 1976 spanning across albums like Three Dog Night, Suitable For Framing, It Ain't Easy, Naturally, Harmony, Seven Separate Fools, Cyan, Hard Labor, Coming Down Your Way, and American Pastime. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Three Dog Night.

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About Lyrics and It Ain’T Easy by Three Dog Night

The lyrics to It Ain’T Easy are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Three Dog Night used when the song was created in 1970. The lyrics to It Ain’T Easy have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Three Dog Night and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to It Ain’T Easy by Three Dog Night. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to It Ain’T Easy" means the words set to the music of It Ain’T Easy, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Three Dog Night. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to It Ain’T Easy and the lyrics to It Ain’T Easy are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Three Dog Night who came here looking just for the lyrics to It Ain’T Easy, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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