Red Right Hand (2011 Remastered Version) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

[00:16.91] Take a little walk to the edge of town and go across the tracks [00:24.77] Where the viaduct looms, like a bird of doom as it shifts and cracks [00:30.35] [00:33.11] Where secrets lie in the border fires in the humming wires [00:39.27] Hey man, you know you're never coming back [00:42.49] Past the square, past the bridge, past the mills, past the stacks [00:47.42] [00:49.59] On a gathering storm comes a tall handsome man [00:53.78] In a dusty black coat with a red right hand [00:59.21] [01:06.41] He'll wrap you in his arms, tell you that you've been a good boy [01:14.54] He'll rekindle all the dreams, it took you a lifetime to destroy [01:23.02] He'll reach deep into the hole, heal your shrinking soul [01:27.92] But there won't be a single thing that you can do [01:32.19] He's a god, he's a man, he's a ghost, he's a guru [01:37.48] [01:39.50] They're whispering his name through this disappearing land [01:43.75] But hidden in his coat is a red right hand [01:49.27] [01:56.05] You don't have no money? He'll get you some [02:02.37] [02:04.45] You don't have no car? He'll get you one [02:10.92] [02:12.96] You don't have no self-respect, you feel like an insect [02:17.98] Well don't you worry buddy 'cause here he comes [02:22.03] Through the ghettos and the barrio and the Bowery and the slum [02:29.12] A shadow is cast wherever he stands [02:33.93] Stacks of green paper in his red right hand [02:39.14] [04:01.29] You'll see him in your nightmares, you'll see him in your dreams [04:07.20] [04:09.24] He'll appear out of nowhere but he ain't what he seems [04:18.00] You'll see him in your head, on the TV screen [04:22.23] And hey buddy, I'm warning you to turn it off [04:26.54] He's a ghost, he's a god, he's a man, he's a guru [04:33.58] You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan [04:38.17] Designed and directed by his red right hand [04:41.69]