The Way It Must Be

This song is on Dan Fogelberg's 1987 album "Exiles" - I have that CD
It has always been known as his divorce album and it took him 2 years to finish writing the songs for it
Dan was married to his first wife Maggie from 1982-1985 and this song is about her
This is a picture of Dan and Maggie

Baby how could I have been so vain
To make you feel like you're the only one to blame
For all these distances and all of this pain

Baby how could I have been so blind
To presuppose that your needs were just like mine
You've been a prisoner for a long long time
'Cause now you run from me
And I will set you free
If that's the way it must be

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

So full of pride 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

Oh oh oh oh, how'd it ever get so cold and mean
Oh oh oh oh, is there nothing left but silence in between
Oh oh oh oh, how'd it ever get so cold and mean
Oh oh oh oh, is there nothing left but silence in between

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

~~~ Dan Fogelberg ~~~