Introduction
When Willie Nelson sings, the world listens. But with “It Gets Easier”, the country legend doesn’t just sing—he stares death straight in the eye and dares us to do the same. This isn’t another campfire ballad. This is Willie pulling back the curtain on the inevitable, and the result is as unsettling as it is unforgettable.
Most artists spend their careers trying to disguise aging, covering the cracks with glossy production and youthful illusions. Not Willie. At nearly 90, his weathered voice carries a gravity no studio trick could ever manufacture. Every line of “It Gets Easier” feels like a confession, a surrender, and a warning wrapped in one. It’s not about cheap optimism. It’s about raw honesty.
What shocks the listener isn’t just the subject matter—it’s the way Willie delivers it. He doesn’t whisper about mortality with fear. He states it plainly, almost with a grin, as though he’s already made peace with the great unknown. That calm, almost casual acceptance shakes us to the core. Because if the Red-Headed Stranger, a man who’s outsmoked, outdrank, and outlived half his generation, can look mortality in the face and shrug, what excuse do the rest of us have?
“It Gets Easier” isn’t just a song—it’s a mirror. It forces us to confront the truths we spend our lives running from. And the most shocking revelation? Somehow, it’s comforting. Willie Nelson reminds us that while the end is unavoidable, acceptance might just be the key to living freely.
In a world terrified of aging, Willie has done the unthinkable—turned death into a lullaby.
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Lyrics
It gets easier, as we get older
It gets easier to say “not today”
And it gets easier, as we get older
To say “go away and not today”
I don’t have to do
One damn thing
That I don’t want to do
Except for missing you
And that won’t go away
It gets easier to say “some other time”
It gets easier to tell the world to wait
And it gets easier to watch the world fly by
And tell it, “I will catch up, but not today”
I don’t have to do
One damn thing
That I don’t want to do
Except for missing you
And that won’t go away
Except for missing you
And that won’t go away
