TITLE:  Doesn't Have To Be That Way
ARTIST:  WILL HOGE
ALBUM:  BLACKBIRD ON A LONELY WIRE

          Bm7 (x20202@1)                    A (x02220@1)     Bm7A
There's a storm brewing out on the open sea

Bm7 (x20202@1)                    A (x02220@1)        Bm7A
Sweeping its way here to you and me

            Bm (x24432@1)                               ABut (x02220@1)all the lights are out and the streets are dark

              Bm (x24432@1)                          AAnd (x02220@1)there's a soul without a fire trying to find a spark

         Bm (x24432@1)                   A (x02220@1)                 EAnd (022100@1)this heartbreak season it's leaving its mark on me


cHORUS 

                               B (x2444x@1) DE
But it doesn't have to be that way

                                B (x2444x@1) DE
It's not the way that it has to be

                                   B (x2444x@1)            D (xx0232@1)         EIt's (022100@1)coming over the walls and I'm drowning in it can't you see

                                 B (x2444x@1) EIt's (022100@1)not the way that it has to be

                        B (x2444x@1) ADoesn't (x02220@1)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 (xx0232@1)   A (x02220@1)    G (320003@1)  
It's so much harder now

D (xx0232@1)            A (x02220@1)             G (320003@1)That the blues skies have gone away

D (xx0232@1) A (x02220@1)  G (320003@1)               F#M  EmDm AI (x02220@1)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