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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