I wish you would have smiled in the bakery

or sat on a tatty seatee

at a mutual friends gathering



and the more you keep on looking

the more it's hard to take

love we're in stalemate

to never meet is surely where we're bound

there's one in every town

just there to grind you down



I wish I would have seen you in the post office

well maybe I did and I missed it

too busy with the mind on clever lines



why not the rounders pitch or the canteen

you're slacking love were have you been

just have to go and wait until tonight



to give me the invite

don't worry it's alright



I wish I would have seen you down in the arcade

sippin' on a lemonade

in the paper cup and chewin on a straw



and I wish I would have seen you in the bakery

but if I'd seen you in the bakery

you probably wouldn't have seen me