Blue Valentines (Tom Waits)

               (Dm)       (E) 
She sends me blue valentines 
         (Dm)            (E) 
All the way from Philadelphia 
    (Dm)           (E) 
To mark the anniversary 
    (Am)            (A7) 
Of someone that I used to be 
        (Dm)                  (E) 
And it feels like ther‘s a warrant 
   (Am)                (A7) 
Is out for my arrest 
                   (Dm)           (E)        (Am)   (A7) 
Baby, you got me checkin in my rearview mirror 
        (Dm)             (E) 
And I‘m always on the run 
              (Am)            (A7) 
Thats why I changed my name 
       (H7)                              (E) 
But 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