Everybody looks so ill at ease 每个人都看起来很忐忑

So distrustful so displeased 所以，不信任的不高兴

Running down the table 跑下表

I see a borderline 我看到一个边界

Like a barbed wire fence 像铁丝网

Strung tight, strung tense 串起紧，串成紧张

Prickling with pretense 与矫饰刺痛

A borderline 边界线

   

Why are you smirking at your friend? 为什么你傻笑你的朋友吗？

Is this to be the night when 难道这是晚上的时候

All well-wishing ends? 一切良好的祝愿结束？

All credibility revoked? 所有的信誉撤销？

Thin skin, thick jokes! 皮肤薄，厚的笑话！

Can we blame it on the smoke 我们可以责怪的烟

This borderline? 这个边界？

   

Every bristling shaft of pride 骄傲的每个轴竖着

Church or nation 教会或国家

Team or tribe 团队或部落

Every notion we subscribe to 我们订阅的每一个概念

Is just a borderline 只是一个边缘

Good or bad, we think we know 是好是坏，我们认为我们知道

As if thinking makes things so! 仿佛思维使事情么！

All convictions grow along a borderline 所有的信念沿着边缘成长

   

Smug in your jaded expertise 如意在你疲惫的专业知识

You scathe the wonder world 您scathe奇迹世界

And you praise barbarity 而你赞美野蛮

In this illusionary place-- 在这个虚幻的place--

This scared hard-edged rat race 这种害怕锋芒毕露老鼠赛跑

All liberty is laced with 所有的自由是镶有

Borderlines 边界

   

Every income, every age 每天的收入，每一个时代

Every fashion-plated rage 每一个时尚镀愤怒

Every measure, every gauge 每一项措施，每一个计

Creates a borderline 创建一个边界

Every stone thrown through glass 透过玻璃抛出每一块石头

Every mean-streets-kick ass 每个均值街道踢屁股

Every swan caught on the grass 风行草每天鹅

Will draw a borderline 将以此为界线

   

You snipe so steady 您鹬做稳

You snub so snide-- 你冷落所以snide--

So ripe and ready 所以，成熟并准备

To diminish and deride! 为了减少和嘲笑！

You're so quick to condescend 你这么快就屈就

My opinionated friend 我自以为是的朋友

All you deface, all you defend 所有你污损，你捍卫

Is just a borderline 只是一个边缘

Just a borderline ... 只是一个边缘...

Another borderline ... 另一个边缘...

Just a borderline 只是一个边缘