Red Right Hand Lyrics - Nick Cave & The Bad Seed

Take a little walk to the edge of town 

And 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 

But there won't be a single thing that you can do 

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 don't have no money? 

He'll get you some 

You don't have no car? 

He'll get you one 

You don't have 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 

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 

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