Borderline Lyrics - Turbulent Indigo - Joni Mitchell

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? 

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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 

Photos 

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