Borderline-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 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