歌手:Joni Mitchell
专辑:《Turbulent Indigo》

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 the on smoke

This borderline

Every bristling shaft of pride

Church nationor
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

you And 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

Youre 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