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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"