G                     D        G            C
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.
G                 D                   G              C
He said times are hard know, got some things left to sort out
G                                      D
And a man and his freedom don?t easily part.
G                       D        G            C
That?s were she stopped reading, her soul was bleeding.
G                           D            G
So she chose her weapon and went for his heart.
GO TO CHORUS

[Verse 2]
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Well, they say he went crazy. In just a few days,
   G                                     D
he got on the bottle and went out of his mind.
G            D              G                  C
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.
GO TO CHORUS

[Chorus]
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With paper & 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              C
Ah who needs a knife when you can
G                        D       G
take someone?s life with Paper & Pen.
          G              D
(on Final Ah who needs a knife when you can
C              G         D       G
take someone?s life with Paper & Pen.)