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[Intro 1] [Em][C][Em] [Verse 1] With quill and [Em]silver [B]knife[Em][C][Em] She carved [C]a p[Em]oison pe[Am]n[Em] Wrote to her lover's wife [B]"Your husband's seed has [Em]fed my flesh" [Verse 2] [Em]As if a [C]le[Em]per's fa[C]ce[Em] That tain[C]ted let[Em]ter [Am]graced The wife with choke-stone [Em]throat [C]throat[Em] [B]Ran to the day with tear-blind [Em]eyes [Interlude 1] [Em][D] [Em][D] [C][Em][B][Am][Em] [C][Em][C][B][Am][D][Em] [Am][Em][Am][C][B][Em][C][Em] [Verse 3] [D]eyes[Em][F#][Em][B][C] [Em]Impaled on nails of ice And raked with emerald [Am]fire The wife with soul [Em]of snow [Bm]With steady hands be [Em]gins to write "I'm still, I need no [Em]life [Verse 4] To serve [Em]on boys and men What's mine was yours is dead I take my leave of mortal flesh"
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