Verse 1 E7 Evileen… she writes your name in smoke and sin A7 Lets you think you chose her… but she’s already in E7 Finger on your heartbeat, dials it up slow B7 Then she turns it down… just to watch you go Lead fill: G string full bend, choke it → answer with E/B double-stop stab Verse 2 E7 Evileen… pours the honey with a razor in the glass A7 Every “forever” that she whispers… never lasts E7 She maps out your weakness like a thief in the night B7 Leaves the door wide open… then kills the light Chorus A7 Evileen… got a chain around your will E7 Every touch a promise… every promise kills A7 Evileen… yeah she feeds on goodbye E7 B7 Builds you up in fire… just to watch you fry (Lead Break) (Pause between phrases—make it feel like she’s pulling the strings) Verse 3 E7 Evileen… keeps a graveyard in her wake A7 Every man a story that she don’t retake E7 Got your secrets folded in the lines she reads B7 She don’t plant no love… she just sows the need Bridge (strip down, almost spoken) E7 (single hits) You ain’t the first… A7 Won’t be the last… E7 She don’t remember… B7 She just lets it pass… Final Chorus (bigger, grittier) A7 Evileen… hear that lonesome sound E7 That’s your heart breakin’ when she ain’t around A7 Evileen… yeah she don’t pretend E7 B7 She don’t ever leave you… she just ends you in the end
