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, it's so much harder now, that the blues 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, and suicide ain't a matter of degree