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Borderline
Joni Mitchell
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Everybody looks so well 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 defense
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
The scared hard-edge rat race
All liberty is laced with borderlines
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Every income, every aged
Every fashion-plated rage
Every measure, every gauge
Creates a borderline
Every stone thrown through glass
Every mean-streets kickass
Every swan caught on the grass
Will draw a borderline
You snipe so steady, you snub so snide
So ripe and ready to diminish or deride
Oh, you're so quick to condescend, my opinionated friend
All you deface, all you defend is just a borderline
It's just a borderline
Another borderline
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