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.