The People That You Never Get to Love Rupert Holmes

[Verse 1]
You're browsing through a secondhand bookstore
And you see her in nonfiction V through Y
She looks up from World War II
And then you catch her catching you catching her eye

[Verse 2]
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

[Chorus]
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

[Verse 3]
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

[Verse 4]
Or you'll share an elevator, just you two
And you'll rise in total silence to your floor
Like the fool you are, you get off
And she leaves your life behind a closing door