Casual Male - we pass our soulmates in the streets

Heard this song the other day at a Casual Male store...the lyrics went something like

"we pass our soulmates in the streets and hardly recognize them"

sung by a man, no idea the name of the song or singer. it wasn't the chorus, just a line in the song that grabbed my attention. any idea?

Hi, You might have heard, Ben Folds singing "From Above". Excellent song. And so true, "Sure we all have soulmates but we walk past them every day!"


They even looked at each other once
Across a crowded bar
He was with Martha
She with Tom
Neither of them really knew
What was going on
Strange feeling of never
Heartbeats becoming synchronised
Staying that way forever
But most of the time
It was just near misses
Air kisses
Once in a book store
Once at a party
She came in as he was leaving
And years ago at the movies
She sat behind him
Six thirty showing
Of While You Were Sleeping
Never once looked around

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

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
An itch that could never be scratched

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

Neither of them knew what was going on
The strange feeling of never
Heartbeats becoming synchronised
Staying that way forever

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

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

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