Chords for LFDH Episode 54-5 - Daryl Hall with Butch Walker - Why Was It So Easy

[C] I think I can get through the first verse [Em] without cheating too much on the teleprompter,
but if you want to get the second one.
Okay.
Or like [C] after the chorus.
So you're going to do the first verse and the first [Bb] chorus?
_ [Dm] Jeremy, that was wrong.
This guy's [D] mobbing is so easy.
Can I?
Of course you can.
Absolutely.
[Fm] [G] That's what you're here for.
Let me in.
I'll try that whole band.
Let me [A] in.
Why was it so [C] easy?
Oh, [Eb] scary.
Why was it so hard?
Why was it so difficult?
You pick.
Yeah, you pick.
You know, [N] that's interesting you picked that.
That's really cool you picked it.
I was _ _ a [F] Robert Fripp fan growing [D] up.
I knew that [Gbm] that was like, that was around like 1980 or something.
[Db] 78, I believe.
79, [Bb] something like that.
No, no, we got two more.
[Am] You cut it earlier than you put it out. I did.
I cut it in like 77.
[Bb] Why was it so easy?
Yeah, and I remember getting [C] that record and that's when I [F] really started getting [C] what
you wanted to do.
I was like, he [G] wants to go beyond pop.
I was [D] like, you know, he [F] gets artistic license on [Eb] this record and it's great.
It [Gbm] was cool to hear [Am] that record be so like [A] cerebral and [Eb] left field considering it was
not Hall of Notes at all.
It was [D] really hard for me to, you [Am] know, to break perceptions at that time.
I bet it was hard to [Gm] sell it on the label.
It was [D] impossible.
Yeah.
You know, we [Bb] really had a, we sort of had a [Ab] grassroots movement to get it put out.
We went to reviewers and all this stuff and we played it in, [N] we went to record store openings
and really got people sort of behind it to call the record company and all that stuff.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
Well, kudos to you.
Well, yeah, I'm very proud of that record.
It's a diamond.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you. _ _ _
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[Am] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] The light from your star is [C] glowing.
_ _ [Bb] _
Yeah, I see you [F] in the [Am] magazine.
[Ab] Your face seems old now [Gm] I'm on the [Bb] wind.
[Fm] But I prefer a woman to [G] a teenage queen.
[Bb] The white and the [Am] confusion.
_ _ [Bb] _
It's your game.
[Am] You play it so [Ab] cool.
That night seemed like [Gm] an illusion.
[Eb] And your _ [Db] whole [Fm] _ childhood.
[F] _ _
_ _ [G] _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] Blonde disguise.
_ [F] Never really knew [Bb] who I was talking to.
[C] But if you were supposed to be such a mystery.
_ [F] Why was it so easy [C] [G] for me to be with [C] you?
[F] Why was it so [C] easy for me [G] to be [C] with you?
[Bb] _
_ _ [Dm] _ [F] _ _ _ [Am] _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[Bb] Too much time has [Am] come between us. _
[D] _ [Bb] And the sad [Am] words that I hear you say.
[Ab] Must mean you don't [Bb] hold me inside you. _ _
[Ab] But I guess they couldn't go [G] any other [Bb] way.
That night is so far [Am] behind us.
_ [Bb] _ Words are [Am] chains.
It's always up to.
_ [Ab] _ I only [Gm] hope you'll think of me.
[Cm] In that _ [Db] hotel [Fm] _ [F] room.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] All those eyes.
Blonde disguise. _
[F] Never really knew [Bb] who I was talking to.
[C] But if you were supposed to be such a mystery. _
[F] Why was it so [C] easy [Dm] for me to [G] be with [C] you?
[F] Why was it [C] so easy [G] for me to be with [C]
you?
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
Why [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Gb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] was _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ it so [C] easy [F] for me to be [G] with [C] you?
[F] Why was it so easy [F] for me to be [G] with [Em] you?
[F] Why was it [C] so easy [F] for [G] me to be with you?
[C] _ [F] Why _ [Am] _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ [F] _ was it so [C] easy [Dm]
for me to [G] be with [C] you?
[F] Oh, _ _ [G] I need you, you, you, you, you, [C] you [F] So _ easy
[C] _
[G] For [C] _ [F] me to be with you, [C] be with [F] you, be with [G] you [C] [F] So easy
I need you
[C] [F] Why _ [G] [C] was it so [F] easy
_ _ [C] _
[G] For me to [C] be [F] with you? So easy
[G] Why was it so [C] easy
[F] For me _ [C] _ [F]
to be [G] with [C] you?
[F] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ [G] _ [C] [F] So easy _ [G] Oh
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
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[E] I hope I did that one justice.
You did man.
I was