Joni Mitchell - Borderline
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Song Lyrics
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
Release History
Six Songs From Travelogue - A Radio Sampler
- Refuge Of The Road (7:59)
- Otis and Marlena (4:05)
- Amelia (6:00)
- Woodstock (4:25)
- Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody (5:44)
- Borderline (4:48)
Turbulent Indigo
- Sunny Sunday (2:37)
- Sex Kills (3:56)
- How Do You Stop (4:09)
- Turbulent Indigo (3:34)
- Last Chance Lost (3:14)
- The Magdalene Laundries (4:02)
- Not to Blame (4:18)
- Borderline (4:48)
- Yvette in English (5:16)
- The Sire of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song) (7:18)
Travelogue
- Otis and Marlena (4:05)
- Amelia (6:00)
- You Dream Flat Tires
- Love
- Woodstock (4:25)
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Based On A Poem By W.B. Yeats) (7:11)
- Judgement of The Moon and Stars (Ludwig's Tune) (5:25)
- The Sire of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song) (7:18)
- For The Roses (3:46)
- Trouble Girl (5:04)
- God Must Be a Boogie Man (5:02)
- Be Cool
- Just Like This Train (4:23)
- Sex Kills (3:56)
- Refuge of The Roads (6:37)
- Hejira (6:35)
- Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody (5:44)
- Cherokee Louise (4:32)
- The Dawntreader (4:50)
- The Last Time I Saw Richard (3:45)
- Borderline (4:48)
- The Circle Game
Disc 2
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