Tom Waits - Blue Valentines lyrics

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She sends me blue valentines

All the way from Philidelphia

To mark the anniversary

Of someone that I used to me

Feels like a warrant is out for my arrest

Baby you got me checking in my rearview mirror

That's why I'm always on the run

That's why I changed my name

I didn't think you'd ever find me here

To send me blue valentines

Like half forgotten dreams

Like a pebble in my shoe

As I walk these streets

The ghost of your memory

Baby, it's a thistle and a kiss

It's the burglar that can break a roses neck

It's the tattooed broken promise

I gotta hide beneath my sleeve

I'm gonna see you every time I turn my back

Send me blue valentines

Though I try to remain at large

They're insisting that our love must have a eulogy

Why do I save all this madness

Here in a nightstand drawer

There to haunt upon my shoulders

Baby, I know

I'd be luckier to walk around everywhere I go

With this blind and broken heart that sleeps beneath my lapel

Instead, these blue valentines

To remind me of my cardinal sin

I can never wash the guilt

Or get these bloodstains off my hands

It takes a whole lot of whiskey

To make these nightmares go away

I cut my bleedin' heart out every night

And I'm gonna die just a little more

Each St. Valentine's Day

Don't you remember I promised I would write you

These blue valentines, blue valentines, blue valentines