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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Georgia Brown
Vocals
Alice Playten
Vocals
Oliver! Ensemble
Vocals
Oliver! Orchestra
Orchestra
Donald Pippin
Music Director
Alan Paul
Vocals
Barry Humphries
Vocals
Bruce Prochnik
Vocals
Cherry Davis
Vocals
Christopher Votos
Vocals
Clive Revill
Vocals
Danny Sewell
Vocals
Hope Jackman
Vocals
James Glenn
Vocals
Michael Goodman
Vocals
Ray Tudor
Vocals
Willoughby Goddard
Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Lionel Bart
Composer
Eric Rogers
Orchestrator
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Dave Hassinger
Recording Engineer
Joe Linhart
Producer
Charles Gerhardt
Producer
George R. Marek
Additional Producer
Didier C. Deutsch
Mastering Engineer
Lyrics
This is the moment when the gods expect me
To beg for help but I won't even try
I want nothing in this world but myself to protect me
But I won't lie down, roll over and die
All I have to do is to forget how much I love him
All I have to do is put my longing to one side
Tell myself that love's an ever-changing situation
Passion would have cooled and all the magic would have died
It's easy, it's easy
All I have to do is to pretend I never knew him
On those very rare occasions when he steals into my heart
Better to have lost him when the ties were barely binding
Better the contempt of the familiar cannot start
It's easy, It's easy
Until I think about him as he was when I last touched him
And how he would have been were I to be with him today
Those very rare occasions don't let up they keep on coming
All I ever wanted and I'm throwing it away
It's easy, it's easy as life
But then I see the faces of a worn, defeated people
A father and a nation who won't let a coward run
is this how the gods reward the faithful through the ages?
Forcing us to prove the hardest things we've done
Are easy
So easy
And though I'll think about him 'til the earth draws in around me
And though I choose to leave him for another kind of love
This is no denial, no betrayal but redemption
Redeemed in my own eyes and in the pantheon above
It's easy
It's easy as life
It's easy as life
It's easy as life
Writer(s): Lionel Bart
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