-transcribed by Greg Steele - 
http://www.gregorysteele.com - gsteele214@netscape.net


"The Way It Must Be"  by Dan Fogelberg

G
Baby, how could I have been so vain?

                                              C 
To make you think that you're the only one to blame,

                        G
For all these distances and all this pain.


Baby, how could I have been so blind?

                                             C
To presuppose that your needs were just like mine,

                             G
You've been a prisoner for a long, long time.

            D                      C 
And now you run from me and I will set you free

              G  
If that's the way it must be.


I tried so hard to make you part of me
That everytime I looked at you I'd thought I'd see,
Someone that you could never ever be.

So full of pride that I could not see straight,
I thought you'd change if I could only wait,
I see the truth now but it's much too late

'Cause now you run from me and I will set you free,
If that's the way it must be.


       Em                        C        G      
Wo-o-o-o-o, how'd it ever get so cold and mean?

       Em                             C             D
Wo-o-o-o-o, is there nothing left but silence in between?



repeat break

Baby how did we hold on so long,
To something both of us must have known was wrong?
We're either fools or must be terribly strong.

'Cause now you run from me and I will set you free,
If that's the way it must be.

(Repeat last two lines twice)