Go Down Easy
from Illegal Copy #2 (Live, Remastered) by David Elias & The Great Unknown
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lyrics
Go Down Easy - by David Elias
Go down easy, no struggling on the way
You're sticking to the things that you do best
Give a little loving every day
Take it easy but take it just same
Happiness it ain't no crime
Everybody gets to play that game
Jimmy was the man with the grandstand plan
And a couple more up his sleeve
He stole a 4x4, robbed a liquor store
On the night before New Years Eve
And he was running down the road
Drinking Wild Irish Rose with a smile and a sneer
But the plans that he'd laid didn't account for barricades
Or 8 to 15 years
Go Down Easy...
Sally was the girl with the ivory curls
And a movie poster smile
Whizzed her way through school she followed all the rules
With her slow and steady style
She graduated fast at the head of her class
Went to a party in a summer dress
Riding shotgun in a car that was leaving from a bar
Into an 18-wheel caress.
Go Down Easy...
Rita and Romaine were a burning flame
In the Class of '61
People sure admired the intensity of fire
They displayed for everyone
Both were mesmerized looking in the others eyes
Saw the spark and the sadness there
So they had a couple kids
They were kind of glad they did
But it cost their whole affair
Go Down Easy...
Then I was looking at my life
At the pictures without lights
There were images of you
Never really sure if there really was a war
Or we did what we needed to
It reminds me of a time in 1969
I'm walking through the woods
Trees and flowers there unfolded like a prayer
Hell I never felt so good
Go Down Easy...
Go down easy, no struggling on the way
You're sticking to the things that you do best
Give a little loving every day
Take it easy but take it just same
Happiness it ain't no crime
Everybody gets to play that game
Jimmy was the man with the grandstand plan
And a couple more up his sleeve
He stole a 4x4, robbed a liquor store
On the night before New Years Eve
And he was running down the road
Drinking Wild Irish Rose with a smile and a sneer
But the plans that he'd laid didn't account for barricades
Or 8 to 15 years
Go Down Easy...
Sally was the girl with the ivory curls
And a movie poster smile
Whizzed her way through school she followed all the rules
With her slow and steady style
She graduated fast at the head of her class
Went to a party in a summer dress
Riding shotgun in a car that was leaving from a bar
Into an 18-wheel caress.
Go Down Easy...
Rita and Romaine were a burning flame
In the Class of '61
People sure admired the intensity of fire
They displayed for everyone
Both were mesmerized looking in the others eyes
Saw the spark and the sadness there
So they had a couple kids
They were kind of glad they did
But it cost their whole affair
Go Down Easy...
Then I was looking at my life
At the pictures without lights
There were images of you
Never really sure if there really was a war
Or we did what we needed to
It reminds me of a time in 1969
I'm walking through the woods
Trees and flowers there unfolded like a prayer
Hell I never felt so good
Go Down Easy...
credits
from Illegal Copy #2 (Live, Remastered),
released March 22, 2002
Words and Music by David Elias, (c)2002 David Elias, David Elias Music (ASCAP). A live studio version of this song released on "The Window" hybrid multichannel SACD in 2003.
Words and Music by David Elias, (c)2002 David Elias, David Elias Music (ASCAP). A live studio version of this song released on "The Window" hybrid multichannel SACD in 2003.
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