Adele – Easy On Me Lyrics

“Easy On Me” marks Adele’s return after a six-year hiatus. The song is the lead single off her fourth studio album 30. In an October 2021 BBC Radio 1 interview, Adele revealed that it was the first song written for the album, as she started it back in 2019. The song sees the singer speak about her fraught childhood, her lost marriage and the lessons learnt and unlearnt about family, love and abandonment along the way.

Following recent teases of her long-awaited fourth album on October 5, 2021, Adele took to Twitter, announcing that she would be dropping a brand new song on October 15th, sharing the teaser trailer to this track. The first verse of the song was played during Adele’s Instagram Live on October 9, 2021.

Upon its release, “Easy On Me” broke the world record for the most streamed song in 24 hours, with 24 million streams. This unseated the previously record-holders BTS for their song “Butter.”

Easy On Me Lyrics

[Verse 1]
There ain’t no gold in this river
That I’ve been washin’ my hands in forever
I know there is hope in these waters
But I can’t bring myself to swim
When I am drowning in this silence
Baby, let me in

[Chorus]
Go easy on me, baby
I was still a child
Didn’t get the chance to
Feel the world around me
I had no time to choose what I chose to do
So go easy on me

[Verse 2]
There ain’t no room for things to change
When we are both so deeply stuck in our ways
You can’t deny how hard I’ve tried
I changed who I was to put you both first
But now I give up

[Chorus]
Go easy on me, baby
I was still a child
Didn’t get the chance to
Feel the world around me
Had no time to choose what I chose to do
So go easy on me

[Bridge]
I had good intentions
And the highest hopes
But I know right now
It probably doesn’t even show

[Chorus]
Go easy on me, baby
I was still a child
I didn’t get the chance to
Feel the world around me
I had no time to choose what I chose to do
So go easy on me