Lyrics to
No Easy Way Down

This version of No Easy Way Down was released by Barbra Streisand in 1971.

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Your toy balloon has sailed in the sky
But now it must fall to the ground
Now you’re sad eyes reveal
Just how badly you feel
‘Cause there is no easy way down
The view from the cliffs
Must have been exciting
(Exiting, exciting, exciting)
And up to the peaks you were bound
Now you’re stranded all alone
And the path leads unknown
And there is no easy way down
No it isn’t very easy
(No easy way down)
When you’re left on your own
(No easy way down)
No it isn’t very easy
When each road you take
Is one more mistake
And there’s no one to break your fall
And lead you back home
Oh, oooh. . .
We all like to climb to the heights, I know
Where our fantasy world can be found
But you must know in the end
When it’s time to descend
There is no easy way down
You know, you’re gonna find
There is no easy way down
No it isn’t very easy (No easy way down)
When you’re left on your own (No easy way down)
No it isn’t very easy (No easy way down)
When you’re left on your own (No easy way down)
No it isn’t very easy (No easy way down)
When you’ re left on your own…

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About Lyrics and No Easy Way Down by Barbra Streisand

When you decide to study the lyrics to No Easy Way Down, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Barbra Streisand. Some of the lyrics to No Easy Way Down have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Barbra Streisand and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to No Easy Way Down 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 No Easy Way Down" means the words set to the music of No Easy Way Down, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Barbra Streisand. 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 No Easy Way Down and the lyrics to No Easy Way Down are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Barbra Streisand who came here looking just for the lyrics to No Easy Way Down, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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