Slippery Life

It's a slippery life
When even Mr Sherlock Holmes
Is outrun by developments
And wanders lost at 3am
Without his pipe
And Watson nowhere to be found
Grasping for the truth
An old syringe

It's a slippery life
When love and love alone, it seems
Can stand between your sanity
And something strange and frightening
And the madman at the salad bar
Disrupts the peaceful kitchen
Grabs the plastic knife
Makes to slice a throat

It's a slippery life
When love and love alone, it seems
Can stand between your sanity
And something strange and frightening
And the madman at the salad bar
Disrupts the peaceful kitchen
Grasping for the truth
An old syringe