It Doesn't Have to Be That Way - Jim Croce

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.

I’ll be dropping by today.

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.

I’ll be dropping by today.

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.

I’ll be dropping by today.

We could easily get it together tonight.

It’s only right.