Red Right Hand by Nick Cave & Bad Seeds

Take a (1)____________ 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 (2)____________ fires
In the humming wires
Hey man, you know
You're never coming back
Past the square, past the bridge
Past the mills, (3)________ 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 those dreams
It took you a (4)________________ to destroy
He'll (5)__________ deep into the hole
Heal your shrinking soul
Hey buddy, you know 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 (6)________ an insect
Well, buddy buddy, don't you worry
Cause (7)________ 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

You'll see him in (8)________ nightmares
You'll see him in your dreams
He'll appear out of nowhere
But he ain't (9)________ he seems
You'll see him in your 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 catastrophic plan
Designed and directed by his red right hand

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