Blue Valentines - Tom Waits

She sends me blue valentines all the way from Philadelphia

To mark the anniversary of someone that I used to be

And it feels like a warrant is out for my arrest

Baby you got me checkin in my rearview mirror

Thats why I'm always on the run it's why I changed my name

And 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 baby its the thistle in the kiss

Its the burglar that can break a rose's neck

Its the tatooed broken promise I gotta hide beneath my sleeve

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

Oh you 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 the 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

And it takes a whole lot of whiskey to make these nightmares go away

And I cut my bleedin heart out every night and I'm gonna die just a little more

On each St. Valentine's day

Don't you remember I promised I would write you

These blue valentines

Blue valentines

Blue valentines