[Verse 1]
You're browsing in a second-hand bookstore
And you see her in non-fiction V through Y
She looks up from World War II
And then you catch her catching you catching her eye
So 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 walks away
That's when you lose
And you think about the people that you never get to love
Not as if you really have a chance
So many worth a second look
But rarely do you get a second glance
Until fate cuts in on your dance

[Verse 2]
Or 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

[Verse 3]
Or you'll share an elevator, just you two
And rise in total silence to your floor
Like the fool you are, you walk off and you leave her there behind
The closing door
[Verse 4]
Makes you think about the people that you never get to love
Poem you intended to begin
The saddest words that anyone has ever said or wrote
"What might have been"
But then who said we get to win?

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 5]
But 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 quiet stranger who looks something
Well, exactly just like me

[Verse 6]
One of the people that you never get to love
The people that you never get to love
The people that you never get to love