Vienna Teng - Pontchartrain Lyrics
Sunday:
Dark water draining north, the heat
Swells and bursts like plague.
Sunday:
Glides onward toward the grave.
Who drew the line?
Who drew the line between you and me?
Who drew the line
that everyone sees?
Darling,
Lake Pontchartrain is haunted:
Bones without names, photographs framed in reeds.
Darling,
What blood our veins are holding.
The overpass frozen, fires ablaze at sea.
Who drew the line?
Who drew the line that cuts to the skin, buries me in?
Tell me who drew the line.
Darling, don't close your eyes.
(Lie as darkness hardens.
Lie of our reunion.
Oh lie if God is sleeping.
Oh I believe you now.)
Darling,
Lake Pontchartrain will cradle me,
and all you left behind.
Listen:
Ever-so-faint slow tambourine
is marching back through time.
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Vienna Teng Pontchartrain Comments
I bought this album when it first came out and the mood and atmosphere of this song still gets me every time. Although its about a tragedy, it has a majestic tone, like the power of nature looming large beyond our grief. I've wondered sometimes if the oh so slow tempo is fashioned after a New Orleans funeral procession.
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August 23, 2005 – August 31, 2005
O Lie if God is Sleeping
Oh, that intermezzo... Love it!!
criminally beautiful
Dark song but beautiful at the same time. I'm just curious what the line means?!
temazo......