Midnight in the big city
   At the bar drinking all on my own
   Just thinking about that girl and me
   How something's going wrong
  
   Mister, tell me, what's my saving grace?
   The back room boys
   Were all telling me
   I'm a borderline case
  
   Back on the borderline one more time
  
   Seven beers and still sober
   It's time to change to something stronger
   I cannot take this scene no longer
   She could have told me it's all over
  
   Back in my home town
   The old place is still the same
   But time can cast a spell over something
   You can't go back again
  
   Back on the borderline one more time
  
   Mister, fill me another
   Till I go crazy and it turn my mind around
   Just pass that bottle one more time
   And slowly drink it down
  
   Jeanie can I tell you?
   The shame of my disgrace
   It's just love or rejection
   For this borderline case
  
   Back on the borderline one more time
  
   I'm on my bended knees crawling
   I'm begging you darling