Another Valentine

Another Valentine

Another valentine another port

Another rusty romance that I can’t afford

In-between Portuguese evergreens I hear the fado fading

As you sang your sunken serenades

With your wedding ring hanging around your neck

A picturesque poet penetrating with your warm and worn out words

Wounds yeah wounds, self-inflicted or caused by you

Or her who dries inside my soul forever

It’s all right, it’s okay, it’s just pain

Maybe I was just hoping for second refrain

Me yeah me, me and my bohemian brown wedding gown I would wear it down the aisle honey I do

On release my leather jacket was miss Mitchell blue

While you poured jenevers to lover’s old and used

I just drank another case

Of you, yeah you, you who felt my eyes as you cheated in songs

Alongside the tall one who vibrates your soul forever

It’s all right, its okay honey I relate

Maybe letting them go was just our biggest mistake.

For the past year it has mostly been me yeah me

Your rolling stone running out of hills

Stuck in a polaroid still you took of me wearing your jacket

That now sits beside them, yeah them

Your piled-up postcards of pretty men

Tell me to whom, to whom will you reply

It’s all right, it’s okay I’ll wait

Until you pick your stamp and tell me how you feel.

So, I guess it’s down to him yeah him

The new guy who didn’t know how to intonate your guitar strings

While I took on the dangerous task of tuning

Or me yeah me, a busker between beggars and bewildered minds

Just asking for a little change

It’s alright it’s okay, I showed up late

Now I wonder if I showed up at all?

I guess it’s down to him, her, them and the ones

Dreamt, drenched, sensed and discussed

Down to him, her, them and the ones

Dreamt, drenched, sensed and discussed

Down to him, her, them and the ones

Dreamt, drenched, sensed and discussed

Down to him, her, them and the ones

Dreamt, drenched, sensed and discussed

When they come around to touch us

You think we can hold them all together?

It okay, I’m not alright

Cause I held tight

I found out that when I’m wanted

That’s when I tend to hide