I'm standing in the station,
I am waiting for a train,
To take me to the border,
And my loved one far away,
I watched a bunch of soldiers heading for the war,
I could hardly even bear to see them go;
Rolling through the countryside,
Tears are in my eyes,
We're coming to the borderline,
I'm ready with my lies,
And in the early morning rain, I see her there,
And I know I'll have to say goodbye again;
And it's breaking my heart, I know what I must do,
I hear my country call me, but I want to be with you,
I'm taking my side, one of us will lose,
Don't let go, I want to know,
That you will wait for me until the day,
There's no borderline, no borderline;
Walking past the border guards,
Reaching for her hand,
Showing no emotion,
I want to break into a run,
But these are only boys, and I will never know,
How men can see the wisdom in a war...
And it's breaking my heart, I know what I must do,
I hear my country call me, but I want to be with you,
I'm taking my side, one of us will lose,
Don't let go, I want to know,
That you will wait for me until the day,
There's no borderline, no borderline,
No borderline, no borderline...
"The song 'Borderline' was inspired in 1982 by watching all the veterans coming back from the Falkland Islands war and another example of two leaders Galtieri and Thatcher waving their fist at each other and threatening all sorts of things, but the people who get caught in the middle are the young soldiers. And some of the outrages that were done, for example the sinking of the ship General Belgrano was absolutely disastrous. Thousands of young men killed. And I watched this victory parade going on, and in the background, almost out of view, were the young men and women who were victims of absolutely terrible burns, in their wheel chairs, paralyzed, and also the families of those who've been killed. And they were kind of shuffled away to the background a bit. And I thought 'no, this is not right. And that touched my heart, and I suppose that's why I sat down and wrote a song called 'Borderline' about those who are on opposite sides but love is an all conquering feeling."
