When I referenced the song, I also noticed that "heart" in the line "When you take this old heart and tear it in two" is sung with a melisma (G# F# E), giving a sense of being torn.
Sunday, December 21, 2025
"It's Not Easy"
I was thinking about "It's Not Easy" a couple days ago and had a realization about the syntax in the lines "It's not easy / Lovin' you, baby / It's not easy / Wanting you so." The sentiments here could be simplified as "Lovin' you isn't easy" and "Wanting you so isn't easy," but the sort of circumlocution (the inversion and pleonastic "it") matches the difficulty that the narrator is describing.
