Billy's Band - Blue Valentines (Tom Waits)

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Dm EShe sends me blue valentines
Dm EAll the way from Philadelphia
Dm ETo mark the anniversary
Am A7Of someone that I used to be
Dm EAnd it feels like ther's a warrant
Am A7Is out for my arrest
Dm E Am A7Baby, you got me checkin in my rearview mirror
Dm EAnd I'm always on the run
Am A7Thats why I changed my name
B7 EBut 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
And the ghost of your memory
Is the thistle in the kiss
And the burgler that can break a roses neck
It's the tatooed broken promise
That I hide beneath my sleeve
I only see you every time I turn my back
 
She sends 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 of this madness
In the nightstand drawer
There to haunt upon my shoulders, daby I know
I'd be luckier to walk around everywhere I go
With a blind and broken heart
That sleeps beneath my lapel
 
She sends me my blue valentines
To remind me of my cardinal sin
I could never wash the guilt
Or get these bloodstains off my hands
And it takes a lot of whiskey
To take this nightmares go away
And I cut my bleedin heart out every nite
And I only die just a little more on each St. Valentines day
But you remember that I promised I would write...
 
These blue valentines
Blue valentines
Blue valentines
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