The lyrics/story are WRONG. It's a great song, but the songwriter messed up pretty badly. The song writer is saying that he bought a postcard at the terminal where he was leaving to go to his beach island destination, 1. why would they sell postcards there for that destination? 2. Why on earth would he fill the postcard out, before he even gets to his destination and in his postcard, explain what it looks like and that all of the people miss her. HE IS NOT THERE YET! In a sense, it would seem as though he is trying to cover something up, because he cannot write these things, because he never made it to his destination. Its partial bad song writing is what it is. All the songwriter had to do was have the plane crash on the way back home. But they could probably not get the syllables to lineup or the words to rhyme. There is always a way to make it work, the songwriter just hoped that anybody listening would look past it. Sounds like 99% of the population did LOL. Although it was not meant to be that way, I do see why somebody is saying that it sounded like he was going to go cheat on his wife. Because why would he feel out the postcard on the plane talking about things that he sees and what people are saying when he's not even there yet? But that is not the case, it's just a lyric blunder. And you know the plane does not crash coming back, because she gets a call that night that the plane went down. That night, being the day that he left. The plane never reached it's destination.
@LyricBlunder well you’re making assumptions that are never stated in the song. For example, the song never mentions his destination. It never stated that he was going to the beach. It also never stated that he bought a postcard at the terminal gate. Only that they kissed goodbye there. Actually she says he will be late if he didn’t go(seeming that he wouldn’t have time to stop and buy a postcard). The postcard did have a beach scene and said Heaven(many people associate heaven with paradise) . The way I take this song is that is that a...
@LyricBlunder well you’re making assumptions that are never stated in the song. For example, the song never mentions his destination. It never stated that he was going to the beach. It also never stated that he bought a postcard at the terminal gate. Only that they kissed goodbye there. Actually she says he will be late if he didn’t go(seeming that he wouldn’t have time to stop and buy a postcard). The postcard did have a beach scene and said Heaven(many people associate heaven with paradise) . The way I take this song is that is that a man during his flight was killed. The man made it to Heaven. While he was in Heaven he met with his old loved ones that have passed.(there’s some folks we know; they say hello and miss you so).Meaning they haven’t seen her in a while because they have been dead. While he is in Heaven he wrote his wife to let her know he missed her and wishes she was in Heaven with him. It’s a postcard sent from Heaven.
The lyrics/story are WRONG. It's a great song, but the songwriter messed up pretty badly. The song writer is saying that he bought a postcard at the terminal where he was leaving to go to his beach island destination, 1. why would they sell postcards there for that destination? 2. Why on earth would he fill the postcard out, before he even gets to his destination and in his postcard, explain what it looks like and that all of the people miss her. HE IS NOT THERE YET! In a sense, it would seem as though he is trying to cover something up, because he cannot write these things, because he never made it to his destination. Its partial bad song writing is what it is. All the songwriter had to do was have the plane crash on the way back home. But they could probably not get the syllables to lineup or the words to rhyme. There is always a way to make it work, the songwriter just hoped that anybody listening would look past it. Sounds like 99% of the population did LOL. Although it was not meant to be that way, I do see why somebody is saying that it sounded like he was going to go cheat on his wife. Because why would he feel out the postcard on the plane talking about things that he sees and what people are saying when he's not even there yet? But that is not the case, it's just a lyric blunder. And you know the plane does not crash coming back, because she gets a call that night that the plane went down. That night, being the day that he left. The plane never reached it's destination.
@LyricBlunder well you’re making assumptions that are never stated in the song. For example, the song never mentions his destination. It never stated that he was going to the beach. It also never stated that he bought a postcard at the terminal gate. Only that they kissed goodbye there. Actually she says he will be late if he didn’t go(seeming that he wouldn’t have time to stop and buy a postcard). The postcard did have a beach scene and said Heaven(many people associate heaven with paradise) . The way I take this song is that is that a...
@LyricBlunder well you’re making assumptions that are never stated in the song. For example, the song never mentions his destination. It never stated that he was going to the beach. It also never stated that he bought a postcard at the terminal gate. Only that they kissed goodbye there. Actually she says he will be late if he didn’t go(seeming that he wouldn’t have time to stop and buy a postcard). The postcard did have a beach scene and said Heaven(many people associate heaven with paradise) . The way I take this song is that is that a man during his flight was killed. The man made it to Heaven. While he was in Heaven he met with his old loved ones that have passed.(there’s some folks we know; they say hello and miss you so).Meaning they haven’t seen her in a while because they have been dead. While he is in Heaven he wrote his wife to let her know he missed her and wishes she was in Heaven with him. It’s a postcard sent from Heaven.