If Leavin' Was Easy Song Lyrics and Chords by Earl Thomas Conley
If Leavin' Was Easy
Recorded by Earl Thomas Conley
Written by Earl Thomas Conley and Randy Scruggs
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morning and evening
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working and sleeping
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feeling
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fused
She got
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stuck on the highway in the
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traffic
Missed the
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news
She said I
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just saw him out there with some
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girl from somewhere
They were
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feeling just
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fine
Was he
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too tired for love like
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he said he was
Or just
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biding
time
She said if
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leavin' was easy
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I'd be gone
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Doing what he's done
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all
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Cause
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tonight I need to be
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loved more than anything
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else
And if
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I'da been easy I
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wouldn't be gone
I'd
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be better off to
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be on my own
Than
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living for someone who
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only lives for them
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selves
She's got a
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front row seat with
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cable
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her life's the
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screen
When she
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oughta be dancing in
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stead of romancing
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Just today's dream
She
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took to the limit
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all that was in it
But
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watching it
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end
And
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remember tonight of
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some old flame
She'd love to get wound up
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again
Repeat #3
FAQ
Who sang the the song If Leavin' Was Easy?
- The song If Leavin' Was Easy was sang by Earl Thomas Conley.
Who is Earl Thomas Conley?
- Earl Thomas Conley (October 17, 1941 - April 10, 2019) was an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1980 and 2003, he recorded ten studio albums, including seven for RCA Records. In the 1980s and into the 1990s, Conley also charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, of which eighteen reached Number One. His eighteen Billboard Number One country singles during the 1980s marked the most Number One hits by any artist in any genre during that decade, excluding Alabama and Ronnie Milsap.
