About The Song
“It’s So Easy” is a song by the American rock band Guns N’ Roses, appearing on their 1987 debut studio album, Appetite for Destruction. The song was released as the band’s first single on June 8, 1987, in the UK, where it reached number 84 on the UK Singles Chart as a double A-Side with “Mr. Brownstone”. It was also released as a maxi-single in Germany later in the same year.
According to an interview published in Hit Parader in March 1988, “It’s So Easy” is “an account of a time Duff McKagan and West Arkeen, and also the rest of the band, were kinda going through. They didn’t have money, but they had a lot of hangers on and girls [they] could basically live off of … things were just too easy. There’s an emptiness; it’s so easy.”
In an Eddie Trunk interview from 2006, Axl Rose said that McKagan and Arkeen originally wrote the song as an acoustic “Hippie Ya-Ya” song, and that it was Slash’s decision to turn it into a rock song. McKagan stated that Arkeen taught him about alternate tuning, leading the song to have a more distinctive sound, saying “without open-E tuning, that song wouldn’t have happened”, that’s why West has songwriting credit on it.
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Lyrics
I see your sister in her Sunday dress
She’s out to please, she pouts her best
She’s out to take, no need to try
She’s ready to make
It’s so easy, easy
When everybody’s tryin’ to please me, baby
It’s so easy, easy
When everybody’s tryin’ to please me
Cars are crashin’ every night
I drink and drive, everything’s in sight
I make the fire, but I miss the firefight
I hit the bull’s eye every night
Now it’s so easy, easy
When everybody’s tryin’ to please me, baby
Yeah, it’s so easy, easy
When everybody’s tryin’ to please me
So easy
But nothin’ seems to please me
It all fits so right
When I fade into the night
See me hit you, you fall down, huh
I see you standin’ there
You think you’re so cool
Why don’t you just
Fuck off?
You get nothin’ for nothin’
If that’s what ya do
Turn around bitch, I got a use for you
Besides, you ain’t got nothin’ better to do
And I’m bored
It’s so easy, easy
When everybody’s tryin’ to please me baby
It’s so easy, easy
When everybody’s tryin’ to please me
So easy
But nothin’ seems to please me
It all fits so right
When I fade into the night
So come with me
Don’t ask me where ’cause I don’t know
I’ll try to please you
I ain’t got no money, but it goes to show
It’s so easy
So fuckin’ easy
It’s so easy
So damn easy
It’s so easy
Oh, so fuckin’ easy
It’s so easy
Hell, so easy
It’s so easy
So fuckin’ easy
It’s so easy
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