Blue Valentine

She sends me blue valentines

All the way from philadelphia

To mark the anniversary

Of someone that I used to be

And it feels just like there's

A warrant out for my arrest

Got me checkin' in my rearview mirrror

And I'm always on the run

Thats why I change 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

Is the thistle in the kiss

And the burgler that that can break a roses neck

It's the tattooed 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 culogy

Why do I save all of this madness

In the nightstand drawer

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 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 lot of whiskey

To make these nightmares go away

And I cut my bleedin' heart out every nite

And I die a little more on each st valentine day

Remember that I promised I would

Write you

These blue valentines

Blue valentines

Blue valentines