JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Penyanyi dan penulis lagu asal Kanada, Joni Mitchell, memopulerkan lagu berjudul “Borderline”.
Lagu bergenre folk tersebut dirilis pada 1966 melalui label rekaman Warner Records.
“Borderline” muncul dalam album studionya yang bertajuk Clouds.
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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