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Nancy Lamott lyrics : "The People That You Never Get To Love"

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
His catching you

Catching his 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

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