Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Borderline , by - Joni Mitchell. Song from the album Turbulent Indigo, in the genre ПопRelease date: 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 |