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Red Right Hand
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seed
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Take a little walk to the edge of town
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And go across the tracks
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Where the viaduct looms,
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Like a bird of doom
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As it shifts and cracks
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Where secrets lie in the border fires,
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In the humming wires
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Hey man, you know
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You're never coming back
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Past the square, past the bridge,
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Past the mills, past the stacks
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On a gathering storm comes
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A tall handsome man
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In a dusty black coat with
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A red right hand
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He'll wrap you in his arms,
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Tell you that you've been a good boy
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He'll rekindle all the dreams
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It took you a lifetime to destroy
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He'll reach deep into the hole,
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Heal your shrinking soul
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But there won't be a single thing that you can do
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He's a god, he's a man,
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He's a ghost, he's a guru
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They're whispering his name
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Through this disappearing land
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But hidden in his coat
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Is a red right hand
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You don't have no money?
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He'll get you some
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You don't have no car?
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He'll get you one
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You don't have no self-respect,
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You feel like an insect
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Well don't you worry buddy,
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'Cause here he comes
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Through the ghettos and the barrio
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And the Bowery and the slum
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A shadow is cast wherever he stands
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Stacks of green paper in his
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Red right hand
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You'll see him in your nightmares,
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You'll see him in your dreams
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He'll appear out of nowhere but
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He ain't what he seems
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You'll see him in your head,
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On the TV screen
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Hey buddy, I'm warning
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You to turn it off
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He's a ghost, he's a god,
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He's a man, he's a guru
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You're one microscopic cog
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In his catastrophic plan
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Designed and directed by
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His red right hand
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