"How It's Got To Be" lyrics

So long it wasn't good
I think you know that and I'm understood
But I'll remember
This joke of a time with you
Lovely we meet
For one last time in my misery
It's so familiar
And now that you feel it too

You can see
It's how it's got to be, that's life
Free
From my reality inside
It's harder, so don't you be sad-sad
Think of the fun that I had-had
But when this world has gone mad-mad
I'm packing up and moving on, don't follow 'cause I'm never going back
I know the fate that waits for me
But surely that hell can not be as bad

Oh well, we tried
You made me laugh and I made you cry
Now don't you miss me
No, you're not allowed to care
How can I last
Without salvation when time has passed?
The guilt, the sadness
The brave grin too hard to bear
I gotta get away, I'm finding my escape
Abstraction is a natural reaction to the pain
I gotta get away, I'm finding my escape
From the pain

You can see
It's how it's got to be, that's life
Free
From my reality inside
It's harder, so don't you be sad-sad
Think of the fun that I had-had
But when this world has gone mad-mad
I'm packing up and moving on, don't follow 'cause I'm never going back
I know the fate that waits for me
But surely that hell can not be as bad