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 
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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