If It’s Easier
About
With an introduction suffused with melancholy, ‘If It’s Easier’ steadily evolves with a positive energy delivered via gently strummed guitar chords and rolling drum rhythms. Fergus’ mesmerizing vocals tell a relatable poignant tale that unravels to the human instinct to protect themselves.
FERGUS said about the single “The title-birthing track of the album. This was a song I had mapped out on guitar for ages and ages, just waiting for the verses to materialise. Life and love can beat us down, and make us want to close up and sort of “opt out” to feel safer. Is it easier?
Probably. But will that lead to fulfilment…? So it goes from being very risk-adverse, to having doubts, then to eventually surrendering utterly – at the mercy of love.”
Lyrics:
If It's Easier
But just as one Summer’s demise
Signals another Autumn’s wake-up call
So shall a Springtime rise
From Winter’s timely fall
Dance back, you fool!
Only Time will kill us all…
If It’s Easier
Unfold me slow
Feels like the last roll
All your life’s been precise
And you had the whole world
But I warned you to stand
On my shoulder
Is it easier to live like this?
Hiding out in homely, emotionless bliss
If it’s easier
Than pining over love
When love is always upside down?
Can’t let go
Lost on my best road
Killing time within the final feet
For just enough to warm to
And risk reuniting
Is it easier to live like this?
Hiding out in homely, emotionless bliss
If it’s easier
Than pining over love
When love is always upside down?
Hold me close
Reach for the cut-throat
Draw a line with autumn wine
And fill these boots
Too worn through to stand
Unrequited
Is it easier to live like this?
Hiding out in homely, emotionless bliss
If it’s easier than pining
When words feel like ice cream
Melting on my pipe dream
If it’s easier…
Is it easier to live like this?
Than pining over love
When love is always upside down?