[Verse 1]

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

[Chorus 1]

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?

[Verse 2]

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

[Chorus 2]

Smug in your jaded expertise

You scathe the wonder world and you praise barbarity

In this illusionary place, this scared hard-edged rat race

All liberty is laced with borderlines

[Verse 3]

Every income, every age, every fashion-plated rage

Every measure, every gauge creates a borderline

Every stone thrown through glass, every mean street's kick ass

Every swan caught on the grass will draw a borderline

[Chorus 3]

You snipe so steady, you snub so snide

So ripe and ready to diminish and deride

You're so quick to condescend, my opinionated friend

All you deface, all you defend is just a borderline

[Outro]

Just a borderline

Another borderline

Just a borderline