Borderline was the third track from the album titled The Immaculate Collection. The single was released on February 15, 1984. “You just keep on pushing my love over the borderline. Feels like I’m going to lose my mind”
I wrote this section, The Immaculate Connection, on the evening of Sunday, 05/21/23, a few minutes after seeing the New Gemini Moon and the planet Venus hovering over San Francisco Bay. The time was 9:12 PM PST.
Most of the songs in The Immaculate Collection had already been used in my story but there were five songs on this album that had not been used so I decided to turn the five remaining songs into a fictional conversation between Madonna and me.
For better or for worse this simple exercise provided some insight about this project as of May 2023, and my relationship with everything Madonna.
I started this hypothetical conversation with, Borderline.
Madonna:
Something in the way you love me won’t let me be
Chris:
I don’t want to be your prisoner, so baby, won’t you set me free
Madonna:
Stop playing with my heartFinish what you startWhen you make my love come downIf you want me, let me knowBaby, let it showHoney, don’t you fool around
Something in the way you love me won’t let me be
Chris:
I don’t want to be your prisoner, so baby, won’t you set me free
Madonna:
Stop playing with my heartFinish what you startWhen you make my love come downIf you want me, let me knowBaby, let it showHoney, don’t you fool around
Chris:
Just trying to understand (understand)I’ve given all I can‘Cause you got the best of me
Just trying to understand (understand)I’ve given all I can‘Cause you got the best of me
BorderlineFeels like I’m going to lose my mindYou just keep on pushing my love over the borderlineBorderlineFeels like I’m going to lose my mindYou just keep on pushing my love over the borderline (borderline)
Something in your eyes is making such a fool of me
Something in your eyes is making such a fool of me
Not Revelant
When you hold me in your arms baby I just can’t see
When you hold me in your arms baby I just can’t see
Madonna:
But then you let me down, when I look around
But then you let me down, when I look around
Baby, you just can’t be found
Stop driving me away, I just wanna stay
There’s something I just got to say
Chris:
Just trying to understand (understand)
I’ve given all I can
‘Cause you got the best of me
BorderlineFeels like I’m going to lose my mindYou just keep on pushing my love over the borderlineBorderlineFeels like I’m going to lose my mindYou just keep on pushing my love over the borderline (borderline)
Keep pushing meKeep pushing meKeep pushing my loveCome on, baby (keep on pushing my love)Come on, darling, yeah (over the borderline, borderline)
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