Lyrics to
Some Folks’ Lives Roll Easy

This version of Some Folks’ Lives Roll Easy was released by Paul Simon in 1975.

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Some folks’ lives roll easy as a breeze
Drifting through a summer night
Heading for a sunny day
But most folks’ lives, they stumble
Lord they fall
Through no fault of their own
Most folks never catch their stars

And here I am, Lord
I’m knocking at your place of business
I know I ain’t got no business here
But you said If I ever got so low
I was busted,
You could be trusted

Some folks’ lives roll easy
Some folks’ lives never roll at all
They just fall
They just fall
Some folks’ lives

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The lyrics to Some Folks’ Lives Roll Easy are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Paul Simon in 1975. Elements of the lyrics to Some Folks’ Lives Roll Easy are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Paul Simon and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Some Folks’ Lives Roll Easy back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Some Folks’ Lives Roll Easy by Paul Simon in a number of ways. 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 Some Folks’ Lives Roll Easy" means the words set to the music of Some Folks’ Lives Roll Easy, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Paul Simon. 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 Some Folks’ Lives Roll Easy and the lyrics to Some Folks’ Lives Roll Easy are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Paul Simon who came here looking just for the lyrics to Some Folks’ Lives Roll Easy, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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