I wish you would have smiled in the bakery

or sat on a tatty settee

at some mutual friend's gathering

and the more you keep on looking

the more it's hard to take

love, we're in stale mate

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 a mind on clever lines

why not the rounders pitch or the canteen

you're slacking love, where have you been?

Just had to go and wait until tonight

so give me the invite

don't worry it's alright

I wish I would have seen you down in the arcade

sipping on a lemonade in the paper cup and chewing on the 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