Track 6 of the album Windfall Plums and Weekend Light · 2025
Wish You Were Here (The Stamp Is Crooked)
“Another postcard from another seaside, with a donkey and a crooked stamp. It's a smile in three minutes.”
xinyao · seaside pop · cosy singalong · 2:17
Lyrics
Postcard from a seaside town Donkey on the front, a sky of blue Handwriting like a spider's walk Squeezed in tiny at the edge You say the weather is a bit all right The chips are good, the gulls are rude You lost your hat to a sudden wind And you bought another just as bad Wish you were here, the stamp is crooked Wish you were here, the ink has run Wish you were here, I am laughing at the fridge Reading it over, one by one Wish you were here, you wrote it down In the margin round and round Send me another, send me three Wish you were here, wish you were here I stuck you up by the kettle light Between the bills and the calendar Every morning, tea in hand I take a little trip to the sea No signal on that pebbled shore No clever words, no fancy art Just a small square window of your day Posted straight into my heart Wish you were here, the stamp is crooked Wish you were here, the ink has run Wish you were here, I am laughing at the fridge Reading it over, one by one Wish you were here, you wrote it down In the margin round and round Send me another, send me three Wish you were here, wish you were here Wish you were here Wish you were here, la la la Wish you were here