Doesn't Have To Be That Way Lyrics - Singles - Will Hoge

There's a storm brewing out on the open sea 

Sweeping its way here to you and me 

But all the lights are out and the streets are dark 

And there's a soul without a fire trying to find a spark 

And this heartbreak season, it's leaving its mark on me 

But it doesn't have to be that way 

It's not the way that it has to be 

It's coming over the walls and I'm drowning in it, can't you see? 

It's not the way that it has to be 

Doesn't have to be that way 

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 

It's so much harder now 

That the blues skies have gone away 

I wish I had just one more day