Saint Valentine

We sat there at the cafe

Up on Telegraph Hill

The margaritas showed no mercy

Love couldn't foot the bill

Your words were like the barrel of a smoking gun

I knew right then that this trip was done

We took our tears onto the grass

Outside of St. Peter's church

On that holy day in February

When my faith turned for the worse

And the mariachi band played in the rain

And no amount of prayers will cease the pain

Saint Valentine

I think you broke your promise

This wasn't quite the deal we had made

Now I'm out on a line

lost my heart in San Francisco

And your tears are pouring down on my parade

We walked on through the city

The painted ladies they took pity

On this funeral march of many

Why did you have to look so pretty?

And the wind won't change the waning of the moon

Acceptance is a quiet, empty room

In a crack down in the pavement

I picked you a broken flower

And the barker and the anchorman

Sang a dirge outside Coit Tower

And Valentine, why is love so hard to keep?

The ghost of your kiss burns me in my sleep

Saint Valentine

I think you broke your promise

This wasn't quite the deal we had made

Now I'm out on a line

lost my heart in San Francisco

Your tears are pouring down on my parade

Once we were close friends

Now wearing the clothes of strangers

And the streetcar is full of lonely drunks

And I didn’t see the danger

of letting you so far back in

And the moon over the mission is growing thin

I held your hand as we walked to Dolores Park

And reached our final rites within the dark

And we watched the silent fog roll into the bay

And said goodbye to Valentine’s Day

We said goodbye to Valentine’s Day