The Bakery

I wish you would have smiled in the bakery

I sat on a tatty settee

At a mutual friend's 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

Who's 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 slackin', Love — where have you been?

Just had to go and wait until tonight!

I wish I would have seen you down in the arcade

Sippin' on a lemonade

In the paper cup and chewin' on the straw

I wish I'd seen you in the bakery

But if I'd seen you in the bakery

You probably wouldn't have seen me