Blue Valentines (Tom Waits)

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She sends me  blue     valentines

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all the way  from  philadelphia

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to mark the   anniversary

2  (3'')(3'') (3'') 2 (3'') (3) (4')
of   someone   that I  used  to  be

(3'') (3'') (4)  (4)    4   4o  (4)
 and   it  feels  just like there's

4 4o (4)   4   4  (3'') (3'') 
a warrant out for  my   arrest

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4(3'')
baby   you   got   me   checkin' in  my  rearview     mirror

(3'') (3'') (3'') (4) (4) (2) (2'')  2
thats  why   I'm  always  on   the  run

(3'')  4  (3'')   4    (3'') (3'')
thats why   I   change  my   name

(3'') (3'') (3)(3)  (3)  (3)   (3)  (3'') (3''')  (3'')(3)
 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...

  4  (3'') (3''')(3'')(3)
these blue   valentines

(3'') (3''')(3'')(3)
blue   valentines

(3'') (3)(3''')(3'')
blue   valentines