I'd settle for a strand of hair
   Lying on a pillow case.
   Just one, to understand
   Why I can't sleep,
   If I could find a cigarette
   Left burning in an ashtray
   That would be enough
   Prove for me,
   That would be enough.
  
   Hunting down a killer
   I'm working out the truth.
   Hunting down a killer
   But I haven't got a clue.
   I haven't got a clue.
  
   If I could catch a silhouette
   Moving behind closed blinds
   I'm sure I'd find another
   Moving jointly.
   I would take an honest man
   That fumbles for an alibi
   If I believed he just might be.
   If I believed...
  
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   I will find those illusive hands
   That tear at the insides
   Of some pitiful man.
   Oh, so handsome
   So much that it hurts,
   With hands that seize and illegally search.
  
   (Chorus)