Peaceful Easy Feeling

The song is to me about a man who is so secure and does not doubt his girlfriends love for him that he is calm about everything.

Jack Tempchin solely composed Peaceful Easy Feeling. With Rob Strandlund he co-wrote Already Gone. His 3 other Eagles co-written cuts are The Girl From Yesterday from the Hell Freezes Over 'reunion' release, and also Somebody and It's Your World Now from Long Road Out Of Eden. Tempchin co-wrote a dozen Top20 radio cuts with Frey during the 1980s for Frey's solo career including The One You Love, You Belong To The City and Smuggler's Blues among others.

Referencing what others have already noted, to me, this is sung by a man who knows the negativity and ill-nature that can be produced by a bad relationship but he is so incredibly in love with who he is singing this to that he has peaceful, easy feeling that he knows he doesn't need to worry. As we get older, many of us have been in bad relationships that have left us weary and afraid to trust ever again, but this is clearly a case of over coming that fear and being left with a peacefule and easy feeling.

It just doesn't get much better than this.

BW Stevenson, who wrote a lot of songs that became hits by OTHER artists (3 dog night e.g) covered this song on his 1972 album, Lead Free.

At camp last year, we sang with the campers the verses of "Amazing Grace" to this tune, then tacked on the chorus. It works surprisingly well.

Smooooooth
The title perfectly encapsulates the feel of this excellent song.
Frey does very well on the vocals, too.

I guess I love playing this song on the guitar more than any other. Had reserved it for playing for a girl I liked, but now that day will never come as she's gone.

Tom-me too! I am 41 and I have the most precious little girl in the world (any man with a baby girl will say I am a liar! LOL) She wants her daddy at bedtime (I dread the day when that stops) and I give her a healthy dose of the Eagles, James Taylor and the Beatles in lieu of Itsy Bitsy Spider and Rockabye Baby. I just pray there is a day when I can peak in and hear her sing this song to my grandchild...but then again, that would mean she...oh nevermind I can't think about that! Great song!

I love this one and sang it to my young daughter as a goodnight lullaby

i think the lyric is abt a guy who madly loves a girl, he has expressed his love to her and she knows abt it but hasnt yet replied and so he tells her tht he's standing on the ground and he is in peace because he knows tht she loves him too and tht he is hopeful she wont let him down by not accepting his proposal.("and i found out a long time ago") this line might be a flash back..refers to the time they knew eachother just as friends but at tht time the circumstances werent favorable n tht she couldnt simply be his..n now after suffering for years without her, he understands "what a woman can do to ur soul"..and still he doesnt know how to go..whether it is now or it was then, he" dont already know how to go" . he believes he knows her well as a friend and as a friend but he fears to lose her n not to see her again!!

are there any songs by the Eagles that aren't worthy of a listen??? - I dont think they wrote a bad tune.

this song is a great song. It's so relaxing

Andy, I think that they're sayin he don't have his head in the clouds. listen from the very start I have always imagined him sitting there on a beach or pool staring at her and he is appreciating her, falling in love with her all over again (or for the first time) and so he has come to peace with being with her and knows she's the one. The lyrics you said was a masturbation reference I think is much deeper than that, having been divorced I think that anyone know what women can do to your soul and he is saying that "she can't take you anyway you don't already know how to go" is refering to the relationship or more likely the path the relationship goes for positive or the negative cause relationships can injure your soul. this song is so well done great lyrics and music arrangement.

Like many Eagles songs and albums, this one features highly in my favourites list.

It is one of those songs that is easy to listen to and not really think about too much, but thinking about it now I do have a few questions.

The lines "And I found out a long time ago
what a woman can do to your soul
Ah, but she can't take you anyway
You don't already know how to go"
always seemd to me to be a reference to masturbation, but is there a more innocent explanation I am missing?

Also the "I'm already standing on the ground" - what is he saying here? Is it that he is in the relationship with his eyes wide open, not expecting much, so he can't be "let down"?
Look forward to your comments.

Of course another one of my favourites i love the classics!!!

Such a beautiful song that never gets old. So simple and moving which makes you wonder if another song like it will ever come around again.

Wonderful song. What great craftsmen the Eagles were/are! 35 years later and their new album has equally well-creafted songs.