Borderline (2014)

from Project Retake by DOUG the Eagle

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I was never quite sure about this song, to be honest, but I do like the outro, so it got added to the pile as well. You may notice the extra vocals at the start, which were cut from the original recording. I decided to reinstate them, found them annoying and compromised by having them only in the background and then only in a couple of places.

I also added a drum track, which I think makes a welcome improvement. I was also going to add bass, but decided that the song worked well enough without. The minimoog lines at the end were a nightmare, trying to get the damn thing to remain in tune was simply not going to happen. This was the best I could get.

The intro was dubbed from the original 8-track master, everything else was rerecorded from scratch. It did not suffer fom most of the horrific technical issues when recording the original song.

lyrics

Borderline
(Original recording appears on 'Songs for the Wild-at-Heart', 2006)

“Now could I drink hot blood, and do such bitter business as the day would quake to look on!”
-- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

We're on the thing grey line where no-one wants to be
Between right and wrong - the one who's wrong is me
If I could only see

We walk the razor's edge between mad and sane
If there was just a way to walk back again
We go against the grain

If you dislike your form, it's not for me to deem
If it is right or wrong to choose the way you seem
That is the furry dream

A man becomes a beast
An egg becomes a spider
A wolf is just a dog
A cat is just a tiger
...what am I?

Man, beast, bird, machine
Or maybe something in between
What we are is undefined
We all live on the borderline

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from Project Retake, released May 6, 2014

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