Lagu bergenre folk tersebut dirilis pada 1966 melalui label rekaman Warner Records.
“Borderline” muncul dalam album studionya yang bertajuk Clouds.
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Borderline” dari Joni Mitchell:
[Intro]
E B C#m B
E B C#m B
[Verse 1]
E A E
Everybody looks so ill at ease
A E
So distrustful so displeased
A
Running down the table
B B7
I see a borderline
Em/B B7
Like a barbed wire fence
Em/B B7
Strung tight strung tense
Em/B
Prickling with pretense
G#m7
A borderline
F# B F# B F#
Why are you smirking at your friend?
B
Is this to be the night when
G#m F# E
All well-wishing ends?
A E
All credibility revoked?
A E
Thin skin thick jokes!
A
Can we blame it on the smoke,
B E
This borderline?
[Interlude]
E B C#m B
E B C#m B
[Verse 2]
E A E
Every bristling shaft of pride
A
Church or nation
E
Team or tribe
A
Every notion we subscribe to
B B7
Is just a borderline
Em/B B7
Good or bad we think we know
Em/B B7
As if thinking makes things so!
Em/B G#m
All convictions grow along a borderline
F# B F# B F#
Smug in your jaded expertise
B
You scathe the wonder world
G#m F#
And you praise barbarity
E A E
In this illusionary place
A E
This scared hard-edged rat race
A
All liberty is laced with
B E
Borderlines
[Interlude]
E B C#m B
E B C#m B
[Verse 3]
E A E
Every income every age
A E
Every fashion-plated rage
A
Every measure every gauge
B B7
Creates a borderline
Em/B B7
Every stone thrown through glass
Em/B B7
Every mean-streets-kick ass
Em/B
Every swan caught on the grass
G#m
Will draw a borderline
F# B
You snipe so steady
F# B F#
You snub so snide
B
So ripe and ready
G#m F# E
To diminish and deride!
A E
You're so quick to condescend
A E
My opinionated friend
A
All you deface all you defend
B E B C#m
Is just a borderline
B E B C#m
Just a borderline
B E B C#m
Another borderline
B E
Just a borderline
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