Doesn't Have to Be That Way

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 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 It's so much harder now that the blue skies have gone away 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 Suicide ain't a matter of degree 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