Guns N' Roses - It's So Easy

Guns N' Roses - It's So Easy - Meaning of the song

It's So Easy" is "an account of a time Duff McKagan and West Arkeen, and also the rest of the band, were kinda going through. They didn't have money, but they had a lot of hangers on and girls [they] could basically live off of ... things were just too easy. There's an emptiness; it's so easy.

McKagan and Arkeen originally composed the song as an acoustic "Hippie Ya-Ya" tune, and it was Slash's idea to adapt it into a rock song, according to an Eddie Trunk interview from 2006.

McKagan stated that Arkeen taught him about alternate tuning, leading the song to have a more distinctive sound, saying "without open-E tuning, that song wouldn't have happened", that's why West has songwriting credit on it.

It's So Easy - Lyrics 

I see your sister in her Sunday dress She's out to please, she pouts her best She's out to take, no need to try She's ready to make It's so easy, easy When everybody's trying to please me, baby It's so easy, easy When everybody's trying to please me Cars are crashing every night I drink and drive everything's in sight I make the fire, but I miss the firefight I hit the bullseye every night It's so easy, easy When everybody's trying to please me, baby Yeah, it's so easy, easy When everybody's trying to please me It's so easy But nothing seems to please me It all fits so right When I fade into the night See me hit you, you fall down, huh I see you standing there You think you're so cool Why don't you just Fuck off You get nothing for nothing if that's what you do Turn around, bitch, I got a use for you Besides, you ain't got nothing better to do And I'm bored It's so easy, easy When everybody's trying to please me, baby Yeah, it's so easy, easy When everybody's trying to please me It's so easy But nothing seems to please me It all fits so right When I fade into the night So come with me Don't ask me where 'cause I don't know I'll try to please you I ain't got no money, but it goes to show It's so easy, so fucking easy It's so easy, so damn easy It's so easy, oh, so fucking easy It's so easy, yeah, so easy It's so easy, so fucking easy It's so easy, yeah!