Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand

Album: Let Love In / Year: 1994 / Written by Mick Harvey, Nick Cave and Thomas Wydler / Produced by Tony Cohen Lyrics: 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 iI 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 ri