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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 bird of doom
As it (3)____________ and cracks
Where (4)______________ 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, (5)________ the stacks
On a gathering (6)__________ comes
A tall handsome man
In a dusty black (7)________ with
A red right hand

He'll (8)________ you in his arms
Tell you (9)________ you've been a good boy
He'll rekindle all those dreams
It (10)________ you a lifetime to destroy
He'll reach (11)________ into the hole
Heal your (12)__________________ soul
Hey buddy, you know you're
Never ever turning back
He's a ghost, he's a god
He's a man, he's a guru
They're (13)____________________ his name
Through this disappearing land
But (14)____________ in his coat
Is a red (15)__________ 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 (16)________ like an insect
Well, buddy buddy, don't you worry
Cause (17)________ 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 (18)__________ hand

You'll see him in your nightmares
You'll see him in your dreams
He'll (19)____________ out of nowhere
But he ain't (20)________ he seems
You'll see him in (21)________ head
On the TV screen
And hey buddy, I'm telling
You to (22)________ 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 (23)________________ by his red (24)__________ hand

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