Slippery Slope

 

In retrospect, you could see the slippery slope of the Bush administration with the feckless War on Terror, which was "Mission Accomplished" just two months after the "surgical strike" and went on for another 18 years. There's also the French idiom l'esprit de l'escalier" which means missing the opportunity for a riposte after you've left and descended the staircase. 

At the end of the road
You can see the slippery slope
In the space of the knots
You can see the length of the rope

Enduring the decline
Hearing all the prayers and the hopes
At the end of the road
You can see the slippery slope

In the zone
In your bones
That you know
The defensible truth

That you know
It's a fact
Tit for tat
At the drop of a hat

From the blackest of white
To the driest of wet
To know the start
Is to know the end

The end
The end
The end
At the end of the slippery slope  

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