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Red Right Hand Lyrics

Artist: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Album: Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Take a litle walk to the edge of town
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
it took you a lifetime to destroy
He'll reach deep into the hole,
heal your shrinking soul
Hey buddy, you know you're
never ever coming back
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 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 don't you worry buddy,
cause here 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 right hand

(Organ solo)

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 your head,
on the TV screen
And hey buddy, I'm warning
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 directed by
his red right hand

(Organ solo)

Extra verse from DJ Spooky Remix (From Scream 2 Soundtrack):
He'll extend his hand, real slowly for a shake
You'll see it coming toward you, real slowly for a shake
(Grabbing at your peril buddy?) cause you know you ain't
getting near much as he will take.

He's a...

He's mumbling words you can't understand
He's mumbling word behind his red right hand.

Comments/Interpretations
by gabriel on 6/18/2008 12:25am wut the hell is this song about?
by Brown left hand on 6/24/2008 10:34pm He's singin' about the evils of the false preachers of Jesus!
by Lolwut on 7/6/2008 10:51pm Hes singing about the devil. The song is adapted from a poem called paradise lost. its about the war between god and satan, the fall of man from eden and such. The "Red right hand" is a direct qoute from it.
by mike on 7/13/2008 4:49am according to paradise lost, satan supposedly weilds a red right hand
by Hellboy on 7/15/2008 2:49pm you ever see the movie Hellboy! this song is in the soundtrack!
by Ashley on 8/9/2008 12:27am The devil? I thought it was about a like... gunslinger. -shrug-
by CSM on 8/10/2008 8:39am In my own mind, he is speaking of so-called "extraordinary men." Look up the Cigarette-Smoking Man, a fictional character from The X-Files.
by diane on 8/11/2008 8:31am its obvious hes talking about the devils red right hand if you listen to other Nick Cave songs it gets mentioned quite often.Red right hand from Paradise Lost
by CSM on 8/13/2008 1:19pm not disputing that, but the song also lends itself to the Smoking Man.
by Nick Cave on 9/4/2008 12:04am Actually, it is about a man with a birthmark on his hand going to buy a trenchcoat in a gentlemans outfitters next to a church
by Jon on 9/4/2008 10:45am It is indeed from Paradise Lost. But! It is God, not the Devil, who has a red right hand. Paradise is indeed lost.

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