[music] from above

(Ben Folds feat. Nick Hornby)

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

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

And it's not like they were ever actually 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

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

Neither of them knew what was going on

The strange feeling of never

Heartbeats becoming synchronized

Staying that way forever

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

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

Maybe that's how books get written

Maybe that's why songs get sung

Maybe we owe the unlucky ones

.

Sure we all have soulmates but we walk Past them every day Oh no

Maybe that's how books get written

Maybe that's why songs get sung

Maybe we owe the unlucky ones

..

and you should check the video. i heart it. but not the very much terrible ending.