From Above - Ben Folds

They even looked at each other once

Across a crowded bar

He was with Martha

She was with Tom

Neither of them really knew what was going on.

A strange feeling of never,

Heartbeats becoming synchronized

And staying that way forever.

Most of the time

It was just near misses,

Air kisses

Once in a bookstore, once at a party

She came in as he was leaving

And years ago, at the movies, she sat behind him

A six-thirty showing of 'While You Were Sleeping'

He never once looked around

It’s so easy from above

You can 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 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 A strange feeling of never,

Heartbeats becoming synchronized

And staying that way forever.

Who knows whether that’s how it should be Maybe our ghosts live 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 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

Maybe that’s how books get written

Maybe that’s why songs get sung

Maybe we owe the unlucky ones