It Doesn't Have To Be That Way Lyrics

The song It Doesn't Have To Be That Way is performed by Jim Croce in the album named Jim Croce - 50th Anniversary Collection in the year 1992 .



Snowy nights and Christmas lights
Icy windowpanes
Make me wish that we could be
Together again

And the windy winter avenues
Just don't seem the same
And the Christmas carols sound like blues
But the choir is not to blame

But it doesn't have to be that way
What we had should never have ended
And I'll be dropping by today
'Cause we could easily get it together tonight
It's only right

Crowded stores, the corner Santa Claus
Tinseled afternoons
And the sidewalk bands play their songs
Slightly out of tune

Down the windy winter avenues
There walks a lonely man
And if I told you who he is
Well, I think you'd understand

But it doesn't have to be that way
What we had should never have ended
And I'll be dropping by today
'Cause we could easily get it together tonight
It's only right

No, it doesn't have to be that way
What we had should never have ended
And I'll be dropping by today
'Cause we could easily get it together tonight
It's only right



Jim Croce - Jim Croce - 50th Anniversary Collection

Sep 1992

  1. Spin, Spin, Spin
  2. Vespers
  3. Big Wheel
  4. Cigarettes, Whiskey & Wild, Wild Women
  5. (And) I Remember Her
  6. Cotton Mouth River
  7. More Than That Tomorrow
  8. The Migrant Worker
  9. Child Of Midnight
  10. Stone Walls
  11. King's Song
  12. Mississippi Lady
  13. Which Way Are You Goin'
  14. Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy)
  15. You Don't Mess Around With Jim
  16. Tomorrow's Gonna Be A Brighter Day
  17. New York's Not My Home
  18. Hard Time Losin' Man
  19. Photographs And Memories
  20. Walkin' Back To Georgia
  21. Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels)
  22. Time In A Bottle
  23. Box #10
  24. A Long Time Ago
  25. Hey Tomorrow
  26. Chain Gang Medley: Chain Gang/He Don't Love/Searchin'
  27. Old Man River
  28. Careful Man
  29. These Dreams
  30. It Doesn't Have To Be That Way
  31. Dreamin' Again
  32. Alabama Rain
  33. A Good Time Man Like Me Ain't Got No Business (Singin' The Blues)
  34. Next Time, This Time
  35. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
  36. One Less Set Of Footsteps
  37. Roller Derby Queen
  38. Speedball Tucker
  39. I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song
  40. I Got A Name
  41. Recently
  42. Five Short Minutes
  43. Thursday
  44. The Hard Way Every Time
  45. Age
  46. Workin' At The Car Wash Blues
  47. Lover's Cross
  48. Salon And Saloon
  49. Top Hat Bar And Grille

It Doesn't Have To Be That Way