Joni Mitchell - Borderline Lyrics
Everybody looks so ill at easeSo distrustful so displeasedRunning down the tableI see a borderlineLike a barbed wire fenceStrung tight, strung tensePrickling with pretenseA borderlineWhy are you smirking at your friend?Is this to be the night whenAll well-wishing ends?All credibility revoked?Thin skin, thick jokes!Can we blame it on the smokeThis borderline?Every bristling shaft of prideChurch or nationTeam or tribeEvery notion we subscribe toIs just a borderlineGood or bad, we think we knowAs if thinking makes things so!All convictions grow along a borderlineSmug in your jaded expertiseYou scathe the wonder worldAnd you praise barbarityIn this illusionary place--This scared hard-edged rat raceAll liberty is laced withBorderlinesEvery income, every ageEvery fashion-plated rageEvery measure, every gaugeCreates a borderlineEvery stone thrown through glassEvery mean-streets-kick assEvery swan caught on the grassWill draw a borderlineYou snipe so steadyYou snub so snide--So ripe and readyTo diminish and deride!Youre so quick to condescendMy opinionated friendAll you deface, all you defendIs just a borderlineJust a borderline ...Another borderline ...Just a borderline
