TITLE: Doesn't Have To Be That Way ARTIST: WILL HOGE ALBUM: BLACKBIRD ON A LONELY WIRE Bm7 A Am7 There's a storm brewing out on the open sea Bm7 A Am7 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 E But it doesn't have to be that way B 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 BE 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#MAm 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