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There's a letter in a shoe box in a dresser she keeps locked
G                                   D
But she's never read it all the way through
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It was the last one he wrote her, she was sure it was over 
G                                D             G
From all that he told her in the first line or two
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He said times are hard now, got some things left to sort out 
G                                      D
And a man and his freedom don't easily part 
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That's where she stopped reading, her soul was bleeding
G                           D            G
So she chose her weapon and went for his heart


G            D                           G
With paper and pen she got her last word in 
G             A                     D
I never loved you was lie she wrote him
              C                      G
He couldn't believe the reply he'd received
G            C            
What sad tragedy for good love to end
               G
Ah who needs a knife when you can  
G              D                   G
Take someone's life with paper and pen 
 

G                      D      G             C
Well, they say he went crazy, in just a few days he
G                                     D
Got on the bottle and went out of his mind
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To this day, she don't know in the letter that he wrote
G                            D         G
He asked for her hand in the very last line

 
G            D                           G
With paper and pen she got her last word in 
G             A                     D
I never loved you was lie she wrote him
              C                      G
He couldn't believe the reply he'd received
G            C            
What sad tragedy for good love to end
               G
Ah who needs a knife when you can  
               D                   G
Take someone's life with paper and pen 
C              G
Ah who needs a knife when you can  
               D                   G
Take someone's life with paper and pen