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 G D G C 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 now, 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 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 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 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