Blue Valentines

Tom Waits

 

 

 

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She sends me b
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lue 
 
valent
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ines
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All the way from Philadelp
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hia
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To mark the anniversary
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Of someone that I
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used to be
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And it feels just like theres
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A warrant out for  
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my 
 
arrest
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Got me
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checkin in my  
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rearview 
 
mirror
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And I
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'm always on the run
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Thats why I chan
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ged my name
 
And I didn't
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think you'd ever find me
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here
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To send me these
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blue 
 
valen
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tines
 
b
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lue 
 
valenti
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nes
 
he
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se blue val
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entines
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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
And I 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
There to haunt upon my shoulders
Baby 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 can never wash the guilt
Or get these bloodstains off my handa
And it takes a lot of whiskey
To take this nightmares go away
And I cut my bleedin heart out every nite
And I die a little more on each St. Valentines day

 

Don't you remember that I promised I would
Write you...
These blue valentines
blue valentines
blue valentines