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Red Right Hand by Nick Cave & Bad Seeds

Take a (1)____________ (2)________ to the edge of town
Go (3)____________ the tracks
Where the (4)______________ looms
Like a (5)________ of doom
As it shifts and cracks
Where (6)______________ lie in the border fires
In the humming wires
Hey man, you know
You're (7)__________ 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 (8)__________ hand

He'll wrap you in his arms
Tell you that you've been a good boy
He'll rekindle all those dreams
It (9)________ you a lifetime to destroy
He'll reach deep into the hole
Heal your shrinking soul
Hey buddy, you know you're
Never (10)________ (11)______________ 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 like an insect
Well, buddy buddy, don't you worry
Cause (12)________ he comes
Through the ghettos and the barrio
And the bowery and the slum
A (13)____________ is (14)________ wherever he stands
Stacks of (15)__________ paper in his red (16)__________ 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 (17)________ 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 (18)______________________ cog
In his catastrophic plan
Designed and directed by his red right hand

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