Blue Valentines

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 checking in my rearview mirror

That's 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, it's the thistle in the kiss

It's the burglar that can break a rose's neck

It's 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 bleeding 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