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Everybody looks so ill at ease |
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So distrustful so displeased |
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Running down the table |
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I see a borderline |
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Like a barbed wire fence |
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Strung tight, strung tense |
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Prickling with pretense |
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A borderline |
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Why are you smirking at your friend? |
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Is this to be the night when |
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All well-wishing ends? |
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All credibility revoked? |
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Thin skin, thick jokes! |
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Can we blame it on the smoke |
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This borderline? |
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Every bristling shaft of pride |
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Church or nation |
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Team or tribe |
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Every notion we subscribe to |
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Is just a borderline |
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Good or bad, we think we know |
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As if thinking makes things so! |
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All convictions grow along a borderline |
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Smug in your jaded expertise |
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You scathe the wonder world |
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And you praise barbarity |
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In this illusionary place-- |
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This scared hard-edged rat race |
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All liberty is laced with |
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Borderlines |
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Every income, every age |
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Every fashion-plated rage |
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Every measure, every gauge |
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Creates a borderline |
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Every stone thrown through glass |
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Every mean-streets-kick ass |
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Every swan caught on the grass |
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Will draw a borderline |
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You snipe so steady |
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You snub so snide-- |
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So ripe and ready |
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To diminish and deride! |
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You're so quick to condescend |
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My opinionated friend |
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All you deface, all you defend |
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Is just a borderline |
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Just a borderline ... |
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Another borderline ... |
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Just a borderline |
