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