Borderline-Joni Mitchell

[00:18.83]Everybody looks so ill at ease [00:23.62]So distrustful so displeased [00:25.81] [00:26.69]Running down the table [00:28.07] [00:28.64]I see a borderline [00:30.47] [00:35.24]Like a barbed wire fence [00:38.23] [00:40.37]Strung tight, strung tense [00:42.20] [00:44.15]Prickling with pretense [00:46.10] [00:47.56]A borderline [00:48.93] [00:51.64]Why are you smirking at your friend [00:55.08] [00:59.93]Is this to be the night when [01:03.42]All well-wishing ends [01:05.50] [01:08.33]All credibility revoked [01:11.58] [01:13.72]Thin skin, thick jokes [01:15.72] [01:16.60]Can we blame it the on smoke [01:18.26] [01:20.28]This borderline [01:22.49] [01:40.18]Every bristling shaft of pride [01:42.39] [01:44.02]Church nationor [01:44.88]Team or tribe [01:46.32] [01:47.33]Every notion we subscribe to [01:49.97]Is just a borderline [01:51.85] [01:56.57]Good or bad, we think we know [01:59.34] [02:00.35]As if thinking makes things so [02:03.36] [02:05.32]All convictions grow along a borderline [02:08.59] [02:12.74]Smug in your jaded expertise [02:15.45] [02:20.54]You scathe the wonder world [02:23.24] [02:23.80]you And praise barbarity [02:25.44] [02:29.60]In this illusionary place [02:32.26] [02:34.80]This scared hard-edged rat race [02:37.38] [02:38.38]All liberty is laced with [02:40.68] [02:42.07]Borderlines [02:43.95] [03:01.32]Every income, every age [03:04.09] [03:05.47]Every fashion-plated rage [03:07.36] [03:08.81]Every measure, every gauge [03:10.51] [03:11.32]Creates a borderline [03:12.90] [03:17.81]Every stone thrown through glass [03:21.83]Every mean-streets-kick ass [03:25.04] [03:25.86]Every swan caught on the grass [03:28.57]Will draw a borderline [03:30.08] [03:33.66]You snipe so steady [03:36.06]You snub so snide [03:37.63] [03:42.41]So ripe and ready [03:43.66] [03:46.06]To diminish and deride [03:48.20] [03:50.96]Youre so quick to condescend [03:54.33] [03:56.15]My opinionated friend [03:57.79]All you deface, all you defend [04:00.37] [04:01.31]Is just a borderline [04:05.59] [04:11.44]Just a borderline [04:12.90] [04:19.69]Another borderline [04:21.28] [04:28.20]Just a borderline