Intro: Am
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In the darkest corner of the house...
I found her body there
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cold and stiff
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spine in a twist
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she left a note
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it read like so:
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My Dearest one...
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heres what you've done..

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Ive got your knife inside my back
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Ive got your rope around my neck
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I feel the poison in my veins
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corrode and eat away my brains

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Ive told you fifteen dozen times.
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And thats one hundred-eighty times
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If I cant have you
            Am
then no one can.

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..She was an honest girl (Never told a lie.)
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Raised with the finest things (Far too rich to die.)
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A silver spoon
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Gold diamond rings

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And her sainted mother
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the benefactor
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of the inheritance that i was after

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shes got a feeling that ill get even and
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if i cant have you
            Am
then no one can.

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Ive got your knife inside my back
             Am
Ive got your rope around my neck
            G
I feel the poison in my veins
            Am
corrode and eat away my brains

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Ive told you fifteen dozen times.
              Am
And thats one hundred-eighty times
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If I cant have you
            Am
then no one can.