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e | 0

B | 3

G | 0

D | 4

A | 5

E | x

Intro

Verse 1

They even looked at each other once

Across a crowded bar

He was with Martha

She with Tom

Neither of them really knew

What was going on

Strange feeling of never

Heartbeats becoming synchronized

Staying that way forever

But most of the time

It was just near misses

Air kisses

Once in a book store

Once at a party

She came in as he was leaving

And years ago at the movies

She sat behind him

Six thirty showing

Of While You Were Sleeping

Never once looked around

Chorus

It's so easy from above

You can't really see it all

People who belong together

Lost and sad and small

But there's nothing to be done for them

It doesn't work that way

Sure we all have soulmates but we walk

Past them every day

Oh no

Verse 2

And it's not like they were actually ever unhappy in the lives they lived

He married Martha

She married Tom

Just this vague notion that something was wrong

An ache, an absence, a phantom limb

An itch that could never be scratched

Chorus

It's so easy from above

You can't really see it all

People who belong together

Lost and sad and small

But there's nothing to be done for them

It doesn't work that way

Sure we all have soulmates but we walk

Past them every day

Oh no

Bridge

Neither of them knew what was going on

The strange feeling of never

Heartbeats becoming synchronised

Staying that way forever

Interlude

Verse 3

And who knows whether that's how it should be

Maybe a ghost lives in that vacancy

Maybe that's how books get written

Maybe that's why songs get sung

Maybe we owe the unlucky ones

Chorus

It's so easy from above

You can't really see it all

People who belong together

Lost and sad and small

But there's nothing to be done for them

It doesn't work that way

Sure we all have soulmates but we walk

Past them every day

Oh no

CLOSING VERSE

Maybe that's how books get written

Maybe that's why songs get sung

Maybe we owe the unlucky ones