Blue Valentines

Blue Valentines - Tom Waits (湯姆·威茲)

Written by：Tom Waits

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 out for my arrest

Bbay you

Got me checkin' in my rearview mirror

That's why I'm always on the run

That's 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

Baby

Is the thistle in the kiss

It's the bugler that can break a roses neck

It's the tattooed broken promise

I got 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 this blind and broken heart

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 night

And I die just a little more on each st valentine day

Don't you

Remember I promised I would

Write you

These blue valentines

Blue valentines

Blue valentines