Vena Cava

	  		
Intro: G/D D7 (x4) 

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 

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| /   slide up 
| \   slide down 
| h   hammer-on 
| p   pull-off 
| ~   vibrato 
| +   harmonic 
| x   Mute note 
| b   Bend 
| pb  Pre-bend 
| br  Bend release 
| pbr Pre-bend release 
| brb Bend release bend 

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