xBlue Valentines by Tom Waits
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[Verse]
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She sends me blue valentines
Dm7 E9
All the way from Philadelphia
Dm7 E9
To mark the anniversary
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Of someone that I used to be
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And it feels like a warrant
Am7 A7
Is out for my arrest
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Baby you got me checkin in my rearview mirror
Dm7 E7
That's I'm always on the run
Am7
Thats why I changed my name
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And I didn't think you'd ever find me here
[Chorus]
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To send me these blue valentines
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blue valentines
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hese blue valentines
Blue valentines
Like half forgotten dreams
Like a pebble in my shoe
As I walk these streets
And the ghost of your memory
Baby is the thistle in the kiss
It's the burgler that can break a roses neck
It's the tatooed broken promise
I got to hide beneath my sleeve
And I see you every time I turn my back
[Solo]
(same chords as verse 1 time throug)
[Verse]
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 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
They remind me of my cardinal sin
I can never wash the guilt
Or get these bloodstains off my hands
And it takes a hole 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
[Outro]
Don't you remember that I promised I would
Write you...
These blue valentines
blue valentines
blue valentines
