The cocaine bag, and your lovers numbers   Found in the bottom of our baby's crib   I've never asked for what you have given   And I can't take it for another day   And if you say I've become a stranger   In this house that I built for you   Then I would ask you to reconsider   Your rendezvous out on Lake Pontchartrain         Chorus:    I have been wronged and I have been mad   I have planned violence in the face of love   I tore the wires, and left them tattered   I swear the both of you won't make it back, Hey, Hey         I never knew why men would turn to violence   Then I met you and it came all too clear   The whiskey, whining, and constant lying   And the cheating in our very own bed      Chorus      So cheating men and cheating women   Don't deserve half of what they tore away   Just a brief float in my old johnboat   And blow them up upon the Pontchartrain      Chorus         Fire on the Pontchartrain (Fire on the Pontchartrain   I'll watch the rising flame, and make a toast   then I'll buy myself a brand new boat   Fire on the Pontchartrain (Fire on the Pontchartrain)   Fire on the Pontchartrain (Fire on the Pontchartrain)   Fire on the Pontchartrain (Fire on the Pontchartrain)   Fire on the Pontchartrain         Such a beautiful light, such a beautiful light   Such a beautiful life, such a beautiful life   Such a beautiful life      That night on the Pontchartrain   I saw you leaving in the pouring rain   Turned my head and I count to ten   Now I want you back again, Such a beautiful life         That night on the Pontchartrain   I saw you leaving in the pouring rain   I turned my head and I count to ten   But I want you back again   It’s a beautiful light...for such a beautiful lie   It was a beautiful light, such a beautiful lie   Such a beautiful life