Metallica Shares Video Cover Of Thin Lizzy’s “Borderline”

Metallica Shares Video Cover Of Thin Lizzy’s “Borderline” | I Love Classic Rock Videos

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Metallica provided coverage for one of the great moments if you were unable to attend or watch the stream of their 2022 All Within My Hands charity “Helping Hands” benefit performance. One of the evening’s highlights was their maiden performance of a cover version of “Borderline,” originally performed by Thin Lizzy.

Goodnight, Texas’ Avi Vincour joined the band onstage to play acoustic guitar and sing backup vocals. Acoustic renditions of “Blackened,” “The Unforgiven,” and a cover of “It’s Killing Me” by UFO preceded the performance. Moreover, another Thin Lizzy hit “Whiskey In a Jar” was also covered by the group, which was frequent in Metallica shows.

Metallica’s newest single “Lux Æterna,” off their upcoming 72 Seasons album (out April 14 this year), also had its live premiere that night.

Sing along to Thin Lizzy’s “Borderline” below.

“Borderline” by Thin Lizzy

 

It’s 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

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 it’s still the same

But time can cast a spell over something

You can’t go back again

 

Back on the borderline

One more time

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 sink 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

Back on the borderline

One more time

 

I’m on my hands and knees, I’m crawling

I’m begging you, darling

One more time

I know the risk you’re taking

But please don’t leave me forsaken

One more time