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
- Spin, Spin, Spin
- Vespers
- Big Wheel
- Cigarettes, Whiskey & Wild, Wild Women
- (And) I Remember Her
- Cotton Mouth River
- More Than That Tomorrow
- The Migrant Worker
- Child Of Midnight
- Stone Walls
- King's Song
- Mississippi Lady
- Which Way Are You Goin'
- Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy)
- You Don't Mess Around With Jim
- Tomorrow's Gonna Be A Brighter Day
- New York's Not My Home
- Hard Time Losin' Man
- Photographs And Memories
- Walkin' Back To Georgia
- Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels)
- Time In A Bottle
- Box #10
- A Long Time Ago
- Hey Tomorrow
- Chain Gang Medley: Chain Gang/He Don't Love/Searchin'
- Old Man River
- Careful Man
- These Dreams
- It Doesn't Have To Be That Way
- Dreamin' Again
- Alabama Rain
- A Good Time Man Like Me Ain't Got No Business (Singin' The Blues)
- Next Time, This Time
- Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
- One Less Set Of Footsteps
- Roller Derby Queen
- Speedball Tucker
- I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song
- I Got A Name
- Recently
- Five Short Minutes
- Thursday
- The Hard Way Every Time
- Age
- Workin' At The Car Wash Blues
- Lover's Cross
- Salon And Saloon
- Top Hat Bar And Grille