Pontchartrain Chords & Lyrics by Vienna Teng
Pontchartrain
guitar chords lyrics
Pontchartrain
Vienna Teng
(Dreaming Through the Noise - 2006)
Intro: C ...
C C F# C
Sunday: dark water draining north, the heat swells and bursts like plague.
C C F# C
Sunday: ever-so-faint slow tambourine glides onward toward the grave.
Abmaj7
Who drew the line?
E
Who drew the line between you and me?
Abmaj7 G
Who drew the line that everyone sees?
C C F#
Darling, Lake Pontchartrain is haunted: bones without names,
C
photographs framed in reeds.
C C
Darling, what blood our veins are holding.
F# C
The overpass frozen, fires ablaze at sea.
Abmaj7
Who drew the line?
E
Who drew the line that cuts to the skin, buries me in?
Abmaj7
Tell me who drew the line.
G
Darling don't close your eyes.
Interlude: C ... F# ...
Fm Eb Ab Cm
Lie as darkness hardens.
Fm Eb Ab Cm
Lie of our reunion.
Db Eb Ab Cm
O lie if God is sleeping.
Db Eb Fm
O I believe you now.
Fm Eb Ab Cm
Fm Eb Ab C ... F# ... C ... F# ... C ... F# ... C ... F# ...
C C F# C
Darling, Lake Pontchartrain will cradle me, and all you left behind.
C C F# C
Listen: ever-so-faint slow tambourine is marching back through time.
