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It Doesn't Have To Be That Way LINKS ABOUT THIS SONG music/lyrics: Jim Croce release date of this version: November 27, 2024 length: 2 min 35 sec vocals: Chris Tong karaoke arrangement: Retro Karaoke Cruise My cover of Jim Croce's tender Christmas love song, It Doesn't Have To Be That Way. LYRICS Snowy nights and Christmas lights Icy window panes 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 [CHORUS] But it doesn't have to be that way What we had should have never have ended I'll be dropping by today 'Cause we could easily get it together tonight It's only right [VERSE] Crowded stores, the corner Santa Claus Tinseled afternoons And the sidewalk bands that play their songs Slightly out of tune On the windy winter avenues There walks a lonely man And if I told you who he is Well, I think you'd understand [CHORUS] But it doesn't have to be that way What we had should have never have ended 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 have never have ended I'll be dropping by today We could easily get it together tonight It's only right ADDITIONAL NOTES For me and many others who love Jim Croce's It Doesn't Have To Be This Way, it is a Christmas song — indeed, it's on my list of favorite Christmas songs, and is played a lot on radio stations at Christmas time. It is a tender love song that is set against the backdrop of the Christmas season, which is everywhere in the images of the lyrics: snowy nights, Christmas lights, icy window panes, windy winter avenues, Christmas carols, crowded stores, the corner Santa Claus, tinseled afternoons, sidewalk bands. And Christmas chimes accompany the guitars to close the song in the spirit of the holiday. So I'm happy to include my cover of It Doesn't Have To Be This Way in my Holiday Music playlist. The song has two moods — sadness (in the verses) and hopefulness (in the chorus) — and must be sung accordingly. The verses portray a lonely man missing his ex-lover. And the chorus expresses the hope of the lovers re-uniting during this Christmas season. For singing the sad verses. . . Neil Diamond has a wonderful phrase in his song, Song Sung Blue: "you can sing it with a cry in your voice". There are a lot of detailed things I could say about how I chose to sing the verses, but that one phrase, "I sang it with a cry in my voice", covers a lot of it. |
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