Lyrics

Has To Be
Music & Lyrics composed by JAYAR MACK and B. Hudson

1st Verse:
Got a call from a friend of mine
And he was talking to me about the time
Some guy he worked with would play the lottery,
Hit only once, now he's as rich as he can be,
Hung up the phone and I thought to myself,
Why does it always seem to happen to somebody else,
Hard days work for a hard days pay
And this guy just goes and score a major payday,
You try to find some peace of mind
In the life that you're living
But in time you come to find
That everybody's taking cause you're doing all the giving (chorus)

1st Chorus:
Outside the window the scene never change,
I thought of everything but nothing seem to cut through the haze
Nobody said it had to be this way

2nd Verse:
Ran into another friend from back in the day,
He didn't look the same, he seemed to have lost his way,
Got everything he wanted to the point of debt,
Only to find he didn't want what he could get
You try to buy some peace of mind
In the life that you're living,
But in time, you come to find that everybody's taking cause you're all the giving (2nd Chorus)

2nd Chorus:
Outside the window the scene never changed
I thought of everything but nothing seemed to cut through the haze
Nobody ever said it has to be this way
Out on the street it seemed very strange
Outside I smiled, inside I fought like hell to get through the day
Nobody ever said it has to be this way

(Bridge):
Why does it always seem the haves get the best
And the have-nots seemed to always get less,
I've tried so hard to figure it out
Maybe one of these days I'll understand what it's all about

You try to find some peace of mind in the life that you're living
But in time you come to find that everybody's taking cause you're doing all the giving (2nd Chorus)

Ad-lib:
The days ran together and the nights fell apart
It seems to take forever to get a new day to start
Nobody ever said it has to be this way
I wake up it's a brand new day
Until I think about the bills I have to pay
Nobody ever said it has to be this way

(P) & (C) 2001, 2002 JACODA MUSIC PUBLISHING CO. (ASCAP)/bkh publishing (BMI)

Produced by JAYAR MACK for JACODA ENTERTAINMENT, INC.