Vienna Teng - Pontchartrain Chords & Tabs

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?
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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.