we wondered why there'd ever be rollin' across a shining sea we thought that we were living free we don't need it, they say we just need a place where we can hang around and listen to our favorite sounds and i don't have to find myself cuz i know, yes i know, where i am but it ain't easy it ain't easy no, it ain't easy what you're tryin' to do and it ain't easy no, it ain't easy the rumor is that time is short and everybody's lost their minds i don't know who to believe i don't know who to believe this time so come on and tell me if there's anything to say to get us all out of the rain into sunshine, into open fields again cuz it ain't easy, no no so it ain't easy, oh so it ain't easy what you're drivin' to do it ain't easy, no it ain't easy, no say it ain't easy what you're tryin' to do what you're tryin' to put me through we're living in a... we're living in a... time of pain a time of pain so sing it again it's not my time it's not my time to go i said that it's not my time it's not my time to go cuz i'm singing it ain't easy tryin' please me said na na na... na na na... yeah yeah yeah