Intro: 

E5 - D5 * - E5 - D5 *



VERSE 1:

C5
They even looked at each other once

         D5 *
Across a crowded bar

B5
He was with Martha

E5
She with Tom

        C5
Neither of them really knew

         D5 *
What was going on

                     B5
Strange feeling of never

                    E5
Heartbeats becoming synchronized

                        C5
Staying that way forever


                     D5 * 
But most of the time

                       
It was just near misses

          B5
Air kisses

                    
Once in a book store

               E5
Once at a party

                             C5
She came in as he was leaving

                          D5 *
And years ago at the movies
         
                  B5
She sat behind him


Six thirty showing

    E5
Of While You Were Sleeping

C5
Never once looked around




CHORUS:

E5 - G5 - C5 - A5

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

C5 - D5 * - B5 - E5



VERSE 2:

C5 - D5 * - B5 - E5

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

                                     C5
An itch that could never be scratched



cHORUS

E5 - G5 - C5 - A5

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

C5 - D5 * - B5 - E5



BRIDGE

G5                             B5
Neither of them knew what was going on

C5
The strange feeling of never
                                C5
Heartbeats becoming synchronised

                       E5
Staying that way forever



INTERLUDE: E5 - G5 - C5 - A5


VERSE 3

C5 - D5 * - B5 - E5

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

E5 - G5 - C5 - A5

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

C5 - D5 * - B5 - E5

Maybe that's how books get written
Maybe that's why songs get sung
Maybe we owe the unlucky ones