The science questions about the heart last night got me pondering what I know about the heart. Below is a slightly different love song about the heart, looking at it with a combination of science facts and irony… Some of the lyrics definitely made me smile, so if you’re not into mushy love songs, Mitch Benn’s ‘Chambers of the Heart’ is probably more to your liking.
In the chambers of the heart
You can feel the beat of life
It’s great here in the atria
No trouble and no strife
Such is the emotion of being in this place
I can feel the tears well in my eyes ventricle down my face
In the chambers of the heart
There’s an electrical charge
Each valve and muscle working
Not distended or enlarged
But now I know aorta get a move on to the brain
If I get stuck in an artery, don’t let me die in vein
In the chambers of the heart
You can hear the whole world beating
Sometimes you feel the heat
It depends on what you’ve eaten
There’s more magic here than any other body part
It would be swell to be red cells
In the chambers of the heart
In the chambers of the heart
You can feel just where you are
Nowhere else could ever be
So cardiovascular
You can tussle with corpuscles
When the tricuspid valve’s dilated
And I don’t think I’ve ever felt so high
As when I’m fully oxygenated
In the chambers of the heart
You can hear the whole world’s rhythm
You can feel the blood cells rush
And get swept along right with ‘em
This perpetual motion is like a work of art
Let’s float around to the pumping sound
In the chambers of the heart
Sometimes it beats so loud it’s kind of hard to hear
Is this love or is it tachycardia?
I’m sure it’s nothing bad; I’m just a little stressed
But I know I can never leave; I’m under cardiac arrest
In the chambers of the heart
The whole universe is pumping
You could almost go to sleep
If it weren’t for all that thumping
But I hope it doesn’t stop because it’s tricky to re-start
While it beats away we’ll be okay
In the chambers of the heart.