B5                      A5       B5 A5
There's a storm brewing out on the open sea

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Sweeping its way here to you and me

            B5                                 A5
But all the lights are out and the streets are dark

              B5                            A5
And there's a soul without a fire trying to find a spark

         B5                     A5                   E5
And this heartbreak season it's leaving its mark on me


cHORUS 

                               B5   D5 E5
But it doesn't have to be that way

                                B5   D5 E5
It's not the way that it has to be

                                   B5              D5           E5
It's coming over the walls and I'm drowning in it can't you see

                                 B5   E5
It's not the way that it has to be

                        B5   A5
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


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It's so much harder now

D5              A5               G5 
That the blues skies have gone away

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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