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 just like a warrant
 Is out for my arrest
 Baby, you got me checkin'
 In my rearview mirror
 That's why I'm always on the run
 That'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
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 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 going to see you every time I turn my back
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 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
 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
 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 lot of whiskey
 To make these nightmares go away
 And I cut my bleedin' heart out every night
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 And I'm going to die a little more on each St. Valentines day
 Don't you remember, I promised I would write you
 These blue valentines
 Blue valentines
 Blue valentines