The Borderline Tonight Lyrics

There's a song out there in the frozen air

And it echoes in the breeze

While the wanting souls with their useless goals

Dry and fall like autumn leaves

As I claw my way through another day

Like a leper on his knees

On his knees on the borderline tonight

They can lock me up in a prison town

And then sentence me to die

I won't protest

The warden's not around

And I have no urge to cry

Though the walls get damp while a homeless tramp

Traces fire in the sky

In the sky on the borderline tonight

They can chain my limbs to the empty hymns

That I sang when I was nine

In a Catholic church that the fascists searched

Drinking sacramental wine

Ripping out a heart that was torn apart

Just a pulse from feeling fine

Feeling fine on the borderline tonight

They can bury me on the lone prairie

Shovel dust upon my grave

When the summer sun weighs a half a ton

And I ask you to be brave

When the windows close and the spiders doze

To awake a housefly's slave

Another slave on the borderline tonight

There's a looking glass in the dewy grass

That reflects the morning sun

Toward a window pain that cannot explain

What it whispered to the gun

While an aging toad on another road

Meets a princess half undone

Half undone on the borderline tonight

There's a precious jewel and a lonely fool

Slipping slowly towards the dark

On the icy streets where the dealer cheats

Every snake that he didn't mark

As the bride and groom ride a witch's

Broom towards a love song in the park

In the park on the borderline tonight

They can bury me on the lone prairie

Shovel dust upon my grave

When the summer sun weighs a half a ton

And I ask you to be brave

When the windows close and the spiders doze

To awake a housefly's slave

Another slave on the borderline tonight

There's a song out there in the frozen air

And it echoes in the breeze

While the wanting souls with their useless goals

Dry and fall like autumn leaves

As I claw my way through another day

Like a leper on his knees

On my knees on the borderline tonight