Red Right Hand lyrics

Artist  : Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds 
Song : Red Right Hand
 


Take a litle walk to the edge of town
Go
across the tracks
Where the viaduct
looms,
like a bird of doom
As it shifts and
cracks
Where secrets lie in the border
fires,
in the humming wires
Hey man, you
know
you're never coming back
Past the
square, past the bridge,
past the mills, past
the stacks
On a gathering storm comes
a
tall handsome man
In a dusty black coat
with
a red right hand


He'll wrap
you in his arms,
tell you that you've been a
good boy
He'll rekindle all the dreams
it
took you a lifetime to destroy
He'll reach
deep into the hole,
heal your shrinking
soul
Hey buddy, you know you're
never ever
coming back
He's a god, he's a man,
he's a
ghost, he's a guru
They're whispering his
name
through this disappearing land
But
hidden in his coat
is a red right
hand


You ain't got no money?
He'll
get you some
You ain't got no car? He'll get
you one
You ain't got no self-respect,
you
feel like an insect
Well don't you worry
buddy,
cause here he comes
Through the
ghettos and the barrio
and the bowery and the
slum
A shadow is cast wherever he
stands
Stacks of green paper in his
red
right hand


(Organ
solo)


You'll see him in your
nightmares,
you'll see him in your
dreams
He'll appear out of nowhere but
he
ain't what he seems
You'll see him in your
head,
on the TV screen
And hey buddy, I'm
warning
you to turn it off
He's a ghost,
he's a god,
he's a man, he's a guru
You're
one microscopic cog
in his catastrophic
plan
Designed and directed by
his red right
hand


(Organ solo)

Extra verse
from DJ Spooky Remix (From Scream 2
Soundtrack):
He'll extend his hand, real
slowly for a shake
You'll see it coming toward
you, real slowly for a shake
(Grabbing at your
peril buddy?) cause you know you ain't
getting
near much as he will take.


He's
a...

He's mumbling words you can't
understand
He's mumbling word behind his red
right hand.