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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