It's So Easy

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"It's So Easy"
Cover for Appetite for Destruction
Song by Guns N' Roses
from the album Appetite for Destruction
Released	July 21, 1987
Genre	Hard Rock
Length	3:21
Label	Geffen Records
Producer(s)	Mike Clink
Appetite for Destruction track listing
"Welcome to the Jungle" (1)	"It's So Easy" (2)	"Nightrain" (3)

For other uses, see It's So Easy (disambiguation).

"It's So Easy" is a song by the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses. It was released on their debut album Appetite for Destruction on August 10, 1987. While GNR was performing this at the Monsters of Rock concert, two fans were trampled and killed in the audience. "It's So Easy" is a song discussing womanizing and brutality. The song is also frequently played by Velvet Revolver.

The band wrote the words after witnessing a car crash while on tour in New York. A local man saw the expression on Slash's face after witnessing it, and said to him, "Don't worry, it happens all the time around here. Cars are crashing every night." According to Axl Rose, this is what inspired the lyrics for the second verse:^{[citation needed]}

Cars are crashing every night
I drink and drive
everything's in sight
I make the fire
But I miss the fire fight
I hit the bullseye every night

On his May 6, 2006 interview on the Eddie Trunk radio show in New York, Rose stated that "It's So Easy", as originally written by Duff McKagan and West Arkeen, was the "hippie ya-ya song" with a slower, more laid-back tempo. It took on a harder form at a concert at the S.I.R. club in Los Angeles, when Rose and Slash decided to sing and play it differently on the spur of the moment.

On many Guns N' Roses live performances and on the Use Your Illusion Tour, "It's So Easy" was frequently the opener.

Manic Street Preachers released a live cover version of the song on their compilation; Lipstick Traces (A Secret History of the Manic Street Preachers)

40 Below Summer also covered this song on their CD The Last Dance.