A Country Song

(This works best if read with the appropriate country twang in your voice.)


I knew that it was over 

That night you pulled a knife

I can no longer live with

Increased domestic strife



I need the kind of loving

You cannot seem to give

So let me go, my darling

Please dear, I want to live.



I guess that I am lucky

You did not have a gun

I don't know why you gave me

That one last chance to run.



I am not sure what I would do

If you were not my wife

But now that I am free of you

I'll know a better life



I cannot seem to figure out

Just why you want me dead

Perhaps those years of happiness

Have gone right to your head



You only say you love me

when I refuse to stay

But if you want to kill me 

I'll have to run away



How can you say you love me

And give me this abuse

(I'd try to reconcile with you

But it's just no damn use)



It isn't often love can be

Some kind of masterpiece

So, my darling, set me free

And let me go in peace



Let me go, my darlin

Why can't you see we're through

Let me go, my darlin

It's just not safe to be in love with you.
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