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Red Right Hand by Nick Cave & Bad Seeds

Take a little (1)________ to the edge of town
Go across the tracks
Where the (2)______________ looms
Like a (3)________ of doom
As it (4)____________ and cracks
Where secrets lie in the (5)____________ 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 (6)__________________ storm comes
A tall handsome man
In a (7)__________ 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 (8)__________ dreams
It took you a (9)________________ to destroy
He'll reach deep (10)________ the hole
Heal (11)________ (12)__________________ soul
Hey buddy, you (13)________ 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 (14)__________ 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 (15)________ like an insect
Well, (16)__________ buddy, don't you worry
Cause (17)________ he comes
Through the (18)______________ and the barrio
And the (19)____________ and the slum
A shadow is cast wherever he stands
Stacks of (20)__________ paper in his red (21)__________ hand

You'll see him in your nightmares
You'll see him in your dreams
He'll (22)____________ out of nowhere
But he ain't (23)________ 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 (24)________________ by his red (25)__________ hand

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