Lyrics to
It Don’t Come Easy

Released by George Harrison in 1972
From the Album: The Concert For Bangla Desh |

This version of It Don’T Come Easy was released by George Harrison in 1972.

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(It don’t come easy, you know it don’t come easy)
(It don’t come easy, you know it don’t come easy)

Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don’t come easy
You don’t have to shout or leap about
You can even play them easy
Forget about the past and all your sorrow
The future won’t last
It will soon be your tomorrow

I don’t ask for much, I only want your trust
And you know it don’t come easy
And this love of mine keeps growing all the time
And you know it don’t come easy
Open up your heart, let’s come together
Use a little luck, and we will make it work out better

Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don’t come easy
You don’t have to shout or leap about
You can even play them easy
Please remember peace is how we make it
Here withing your reach, is your freedom to take it

I don’t ask for much, I only want your trust
And you know it don’t come easy
(de de de) growing all the time
And you know it don’t come easy

(thank you)


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When you decide to study the lyrics to It Don’T Come Easy, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1972 song by George Harrison. Some of the lyrics to It Don’T Come Easy have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only George Harrison and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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You can understand the lyrics to It Don’T Come Easy if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 Don’T Come Easy" means the words set to the music of It Don’T Come Easy, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by George Harrison. 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 Don’T Come Easy and the lyrics to It Don’T Come Easy are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of George Harrison who came here looking just for the lyrics to It Don’T Come Easy, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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