Easier Than Lying

Album:If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power

Length:3:26

Tempo: BPM

Versions:Easier Than Lying

Live:N/A

"Easier Than Lying" is the third track on If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power by Halsey.

Song Credits

Written by Ashley Frangipane, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Johnathan Carter Cunningham

• Halsey: Vocalist
• Trent Reznor: Bass, Guitar, Programming, Samplers, Synthesizers
• Atticus Ross: Programming, Treatments

• Engineered by Atticus Ross, Trent Reznor, Mat Mitchell at NullCo Studios, Los Angeles, CA
• Vocals recorded by John Cunningham at Jagger Studios, Turks and Caicos Islands
• Mixed by Alan Moulder at Assault & Battery, London, UK
• Assisted by Tom Herbert

Credits adapted from cmgcredits.com/halsey

Appearances

• If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power

Versions

Easier Than Lying

This is the only known version. The rhythm track heard during the verses seems heavily influenced by "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus.

Lyrics

    I’m only whatever you make me
    and you make me
    more and more a villain every day
    But you don’t know
    you reap, you sow
    Whatever you give to me,
    from yourself you take.
    Well if you’re a hater,
    then hate the creator
    it’s in your image i’m made
    
    One eye open and one eye closed
    Cause i’ll hang myself if you give me rope
    I lost all my faith and lost all hope
    That everything means anything at all
    one eye broken and one eye bruised
    Cause I gave myself away for you
    you liar! you don’t love me too
    It’s easy for you, after all
    
    My heart is massive
    but it’s empty
    a permanent part of me
    that innocent artery
    Is gasping for some real attention
    Some undivided hypertension
    I tell it “quiet down, you’re being loud”
    But it beats harder
    every time you come around.
    But do you love the sound?
    
    I sleep with
    One eye open and one eye closed
    Cause i’ll hang myself if you give me rope
    I lost all my faith and lost all hope
    That everything means anything at all
    one eye broken and one eye bruised
    Cause I gave myself away for you
    you liar you don’t love me too
    It’s easy for you after all
    
    Losing you is easier than lying to myself that you love me
    Losing you is easier than lying to myself that you love me
    Losing you is easier than lying to myself that you love me
    Losing you is easier than lying to myself
    
    I sleep with
    One eye open and one eye closed
    Cause i’ll hang myself if you give me rope
    I lost all my faith and lost all hope
    That everything means anything at all
    one eye broken and one eye bruised
    Cause I gave myself away for you
    you liar you don’t love me too
    It’s easy for you after all

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