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Red Right Hand by Nick Cave & Bad Seeds

Take a little walk to the edge of town
Go (1)____________ the tracks
Where the (2)______________ looms
Like a bird of doom
As it (3)____________ 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, (4)________ the bridge
Past the mills, past the stacks
On a gathering (5)__________ comes
A (6)________ (7)________________ man
In a dusty black (8)________ with
A red right hand

He'll wrap you in his arms
Tell you that you've (9)________ a (10)________ boy
He'll rekindle all (11)__________ dreams
It took you a lifetime to destroy
He'll (12)__________ (13)________ (14)________ the hole
Heal your (15)__________________ soul
Hey buddy, you know you're
Never ever (16)______________ 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 (17)____________ in his coat
Is a red (18)__________ 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 ghettos and the barrio
And the (19)____________ and the slum
A shadow is cast (20)________________ he stands
Stacks of green (21)__________ 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 (22)________ head
On the TV screen
And hey buddy, I'm telling
You to (23)________ 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 (24)__________ hand

Answers:
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