Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Borderline, artist - Joni Mitchell. Album song Turbulent Indigo, in the genre Поп
Date of issue: 31.12.1969
Record label: Reprise
Song language: English
Borderline |
Everybody looks so ill at ease |
So distrustful so displeased |
Running down the table |
I see a borderline |
Like a barbed wire fence |
Strung tight, strung tense |
Prickling with pretense |
A borderline |
Why are you smirking at your friend? |
Is this to be the night when |
All well-wishing ends? |
All credibility revoked? |
Thin skin, thick jokes! |
Can we blame it on the smoke |
This borderline? |
Every bristling shaft of pride |
Church or nation |
Team or tribe |
Every notion we subscribe to |
Is just a borderline |
Good or bad, we think we know |
As if thinking makes things so! |
All convictions grow along a borderline |
Smug in your jaded expertise |
You scathe the wonder world |
And you praise barbarity |
In this illusionary place-- |
This scared hard-edged rat race |
All liberty is laced with |
Borderlines |
Every income, every age |
Every fashion-plated rage |
Every measure, every gauge |
Creates a borderline |
Every stone thrown through glass |
Every mean-streets-kick ass |
Every swan caught on the grass |
Will draw a borderline |
You snipe so steady |
You snub so snide-- |
So ripe and ready |
To diminish and deride! |
You’re so quick to condescend |
My opinionated friend |
All you deface, all you defend |
Is just a borderline |
Just a borderline … |
Another borderline … |
Just a borderline |