Vena Cava

The vena cava

The most superior

The queen

Bringing blood into the chamber

Always into the chamber

And in you it moves the same

Even if you can not feel

How it moves, it does move there in you

I'm awake but I cannot be found

Daydreaming so far down

In your arms I sleep so deeply

But I can feel how you will leave me

Even as you are still sitting here

Even as your mug of coffee steams

I can feel how the seams of your ribs

Will separate from the seams of my ribs

I know already how much tv will fail to comfort me in your absence

It's as though the nothing never was

As everything will do just what it does

Like a bullet in the barrel of a gun

I'm hiding here inside for someone, someone

In your eyes streaks of canary yellow

In that twin bed I lay straight and narrow

In your room on long island

I tried to keep myself from sighing

While the lilt of your language

It made me think that I was sinking with the wreckage

Of that old ship

Even though our love has long been dead

Its ghosts will follow to the foot of my deathbed

I ain't no brother I ain't no son

There ain't no aubergine in my blood

I ain't no warrior or king

But how I am one when I sing

When I sing sing sing

While the vena cava the most superior the queen

Is bringing blood into the chamber always into your chamber