Intro One, two, three... |C |C |Am |Am | x2 verse 1 C C No one knew you back in high school Am Am Now you're barely twenty-two C C Am Am You had your whole entire life ahead of you C C Left town on the Greyhound Am Am Cuz there's no love where you grew up C C Am Am They always told you you were never good enough Pre-Chorus F G C Am But why oh why are you making it F G Am Are you making it so hard? G C C Be easy on yourself G G Be easy on yourself Am F Be easy on yourself C G C Cuz nobody's been easy on you Instrumental |C |Am |Am | verse 2 C C Am Am You leave it all behind, you didn't need to travel far C C Am Am You may have lost yourself, but you found yourself a bar C C Yeah you got some boys, you were an easy choice Am Am But you didn't seem to mind C C Am Am You got attention and you didn't care what kind Pre-Chorus F G C Am But why oh why are you making it F G Am Are you making it so hard? G C C Be easy on yourself G G Be easy on yourself Am F Be easy on yourself C G C Cuz nobody's been easy on you Am G F F C Easy on you Am G F F Easy on you verse 3 C C Am Am Started selling everything from a corner anywhere C C Am Am You got nothing to lose and you're too young to care C C Well the men in blue, yeah, they searched you Am Am And you knew you were going down C C Am Am You rather die than deal with working it around Post-Chorus F G C Am But why oh why are you making it F G Am Are you making it so hard? G C C Be easy on yourself G G Be easy on yourself Am F Be easy on yourself C G C Cuz nobody's been easy on you Am G F F C Easy on you Am G F F Easy on you Instrumental |Am |Am |G |G | Outro F F Easy on yourself G G C Cuz nobody's been easy on you