Borderline Songtext
von John Mailander

Everybody looks so ill at ease
So distrustful, so displeased
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 we′re wishing is
All credibility revoked?
Thin skin, thick jokes?
We'll blame it on the smoke?
This borderline


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 the thing so
Will all convictions grow along the borderline?

Stuck in your jaded expertise
You scathe the wonderworld and you praise barbarity
In this illusionary place
This scared-hearted rat race
Our liberty is laced with borderlines

Every income, every age
Every fashion, plea to 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 and snub so snide
So ripe and ready
To diminish and deride
You′re so quick to condescend
My opinionated friend
But all you deface, all you defend
Is just a borderline

Just a borderline
Oh, another borderline
It's just a borderline