I knew a guy, I thought he was my first lovenBut he had to decide between me and the one beforenAnd she stacked it all up, like a house of cardsnSaid if he didn't come back, he'd find her flattened on the floornnAnd though I went and lived in my own hellnThought that I could die as wellnI let him go where he thought he had to gonn'Cause I never took heavy words for grantednAnd I never took undeserved advantagenNo, I never took the easy waynSo why don't you take it a little easy on me now?nnOut on the road, I had so many questionsnI thought I would explode just for some attentionnLike an acolyte, I saw the flames of towering tapersnAlmost proselytized by those gleaming piles of papernnYeah, I watched the power huddlesnAnd their coats draped over puddlesnAnd their trust me, baby, I'm the one you neednnBut I never took heavy words for grantednAnd I never took undeserved advantagenNo, I never took the easy waynSo why don't you take it a little easy on me now?nn'Cause we don't want to be the onesnTo lie and cheat and slandernSo we hold each other up to the higher standardnBut I'll tell you what, I'll never try to make it hardn?Cause when you're hard just to be hardnThe only thing that's hard is younnSo here's what I took, I kept the wine and laughternUntil every path just grew up and ever afternThrough the peaks and twisty canyonsnI made many great companionsnBest of all is the one who loves me like you donn'Cause I never took heavy words for grantednAnd I never took undeserved advantagenNo, I never took the easy waynSo why don't you take it a little easy on me now?nn'Cause I never took heavy words for grantednAnd it's much too late to even want the shortcutnYeah, I never took the easy waynSo you can take it a little easy on me nown'Cause we know that easy's never easy anyhow