The People That You Never Get To Love-Courtenay Day/Christopher Marlowe

[ti:The People That You Never Get To Love] [ar:Courtenay Day] [al:Live at Don't Tell Mama] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The People That You Never Get To Love - Courtenay Day/Christopher Marlowe [00:09.34]You're browsing through a [00:10.86]Second hand bookstore [00:12.29] [00:13.52]And you see her in non-fiction [00:15.40]V through Y [00:17.03] [00:18.04]She looks up from World War II [00:20.46]And then you catch her catching [00:21.98]You catching his eye [00:24.63] [00:27.62]And you quickly turn away your wishful stare [00:30.73] [00:32.67]And take a sudden interest in your shoes [00:34.70] [00:36.68]If you only had the courage but you don't [00:39.30]You turns and leaves and you both lose [00:41.78] [00:44.34]And you think about [00:45.79]The people that you never get to love [00:48.80] [00:50.37]It's not as if you really have the chance [00:53.29] [00:54.69]So many worth a second life [00:56.89]But rarely do you get a second glance [00:59.96]Until fate cuts in on your dance [01:05.63] [01:08.30]And you'll see her on a train that [01:09.53]You've just missed [01:10.55] [01:12.02]At a bus stop where your bus will never stop [01:15.12] [01:16.46]Or in a passing Buick [01:18.71]When you've been pulled [01:19.53]Over by a traffic cop [01:21.55] [01:25.26]Or you'll share an elevator just you two [01:29.53] [01:30.15]And you'll rise in total silence to the floor [01:33.38] [01:34.74]Like the fool you are you get off [01:36.83]And she leaves your life behind [01:38.45]A closing door [01:40.72] [01:42.36]And you think about [01:43.90]The people that you never get to love [01:47.18] [01:48.47]The poem you intended to begin [01:51.80] [01:52.91]The saddest words that anyone has ever said are [01:56.30]'Lord what might have been' [01:58.45]But no one said you get to win [02:04.12] [02:06.90]Still you're never gonna miss [02:07.82]What you don't know [02:09.00] [02:11.16]And you don't know who you'll [02:12.31]Meet at half past three [02:13.94] [02:15.20]It could be a total stranger [02:17.14] [02:17.81]Who looks something just [02:18.93]Exactly much like me [02:27.37] [02:29.93]One of the people that you never get to love [02:33.05] [02:35.18]The people that you never get to love [02:38.53] [02:41.01]The people that you never get to love