TITLE: Doesn't Have To Be That Way
ARTIST: WILL HOGE
ALBUM: BLACKBIRD ON A LONELY WIRE
Bm7 A Bm7 A
There's a storm brewing out on the open sea
Bm7 A Bm7 A
Sweeping its way here to you and me
Bm A
But all the lights are out and the streets are dark
Bm A
And there's a soul without a fire trying to find a spark
Bm A E
And this heartbreak season it's leaving its mark on me
cHORUS
B D E
But it doesn't have to be that way
B D E
It's not the way that it has to be
B D E
It's coming over the walls and I'm drowning in it can't you see
B E
It's not the way that it has to be
B A
Doesn't have to be that way
VERSE 2
Black night sitting heavy all around
I got a mind full of heartaches and hand me downs
I got a freight train screaming inside my head
That says you can't find love in a stranger's bed
And my mouth is full of all the words that I wish I had said
D A G
It's so much harder now
D A G
That the blues skies have gone away
D A G F#M Em Dm A
I wish I had just one more day
Whiskey like water flowing down a drain
And I'm wasted as a candle in a hurricane
But you can't stop something that's this far gone
Goodbyes are easier than I was wrongs
And suicide ain't a matter of degree