People That You Never Get to Love lyrics

You're browsing through

A secondhand bookstore

And you see him in non-fiction "V" to "Y"

He looks up

From World War II

And then you catch him catching you

Catching his eye

And you quickly turn away

Your wishful stare

And you take a sudden interest

In your shoes

If you only had the courage

But you don't; he 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 had a chance

So many worth a second life

But rarely do you get a second glance

Until fate cuts into your dance

And you see him on a train

That you've just missed

Or at a bus stop where his 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 total silence

To your floor

Like the silly fool you get off

And he 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 no one says 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

The people that you never get to love

The people that you never get to love

• Artist:Margaret Whiting
• Album:Come a Little Closer