Susannah McCorkle - The People That You Never Get To Love lyrics

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You're browsing through a second hand bookstore

And you see her in non-fiction V through Y

She looks up from World War Two

And then you catch her catching you catching her eye.

And you quickly turn away your wishful stare

And take a sudden interest in your shoes

If you only had the courage, but you don't

She turns and leaves and you both lose.

And you think about

The people that you never get to love.

It's not as if you even have the chance.

So many worth a second life

But rarely do you get a second glance

Until fate cuts in on your dance.

And you'll see her on a train that you've just missed.

At a bus stop where your bus will never stop.

Or in a passing Buick when you've been pulled over by a traffic cop.

Or you'll share an elevator, just you two

And you'll rise in solemn silence to your floor.

Like the fool you are you get off

And she leaves your life behind a closing door.

And you think about

The people that you never get to love

The poem you intended to begin

The saddest words that anyone has ever said

Are "Lord what might have been"

But noone said you get to win.

Still you're never gonna miss what you don't know

And you don't know who you'll meet at half past three

It could be a total stranger who looks something just exactly much like me.

One of the people that you never get to love

One of the people that you never get to love

The people that you nver get to love.