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Red Right Hand by Nick Cave & Bad Seeds

Take a little 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 (1)____________ 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 (2)__________________ storm comes
A tall handsome man
In a (3)__________ (4)__________ 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 (5)__________ dreams
It (6)________ you a lifetime to destroy
He'll (7)__________ deep (8)________ the hole
Heal your shrinking soul
Hey buddy, you (9)________ you're
Never ever turning back
He's a ghost, he's a god
He's a man, 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, buddy buddy, don't you worry
Cause here he comes
Through the (10)______________ and the barrio
And the bowery and the slum
A (11)____________ is (12)________ wherever he stands
Stacks of (13)__________ paper in his red right hand

You'll see him in (14)________ 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 (15)________ head
On the TV screen
And hey buddy, I'm telling
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 (16)________________________ plan
Designed and (17)________________ by his red (18)__________ hand

Answers:
(1) border(2) gathering(3) dusty(4) black(5) those(6) took(7) reach(8) into(9) know(10) ghettos(11) shadow(12) cast(13) green(14) your(15) your(16) catastrophic(17) directed(18) right