Vena Cava

G/D D7 4x G/D D7 G/D D7 The vena cava, the most superior G/D The queen D7 Bringing blood into the chamber G/D D7 Always into the chamber G/D D7 And in you it moves the same G/D D7 G/D Even if you cannot feel how it moves D7 G/D D7 It does move there in you G B C B A G I'm awake but I cannot be found G B C B A G Daydreaming so far, down G/D D7 And in your arms, I sleep so deeply G/D D7 But I can feel how you will leave me G/D D7 Even as you are still sitting here G/D D7 Even as your mug of coffee steams G/D D7 I can feel how the seams of your ribs G/D D7 Will separate from the seams of my ribs G/D D7 I know already how much TV G/D Will fail to comfort me in your absence G B C B A G It's as though the knife, it never was G E C B A G And everything will do just what it does G B C B A G Like a bullet in the barrel of a gun G E C B A G I'm hiding here inside with someone, someone (mute chords): G E A B A G G E A B A G G/D D7 In your eyestreaks of canary yellow G/D D7 In that twin bed I lay straight and narrow G/D D7 In your room on Long Island G/D D7 I try to keep myself from sighing G/D D7 While the lilt of your language, it made me think G/D D7 That I was sinking with the wreckage of that old ship G/D D7 Even though our love has long been dead G/D It's ghost will follow to the foot of my deathbed G B C B A G I ain't no brother, I ain't no son G E C B A G There ain't no aubergine in my blood G B C B A G I ain't no warrior or king G E C But how I am one when I sing B A G When I sing, sing, sing (mute chords): G E A B D A G G E A B A G G/D D7 G/D D7 The vena cava, the most superior G/D The queen D7 Bringing blood into the chamber G/D D7 G/D Always into the chamber