[00:17.23]Take a little walk to the edge of town
[00:21.17]Go across the tracks
[00:25.00]Where the viaduct looms Like a bird of doom
[00:28.69]As it shifts and cracks
[00:33.47]Where secrets lie in the border fires
[00:37.21]In the humming wires
[00:39.76]Hey man, you know You're never coming back
[00:43.53]Past the square, past the bridge
[00:44.49]Past the mills, past the stacks
[00:46.51]On a gathering storm comes
[00:52.34]A tall handsome man
[00:55.40]In a dusty black coat With a red right hand
[00:59.90]
[01:08.15]He'll wrap you in his arms
[01:10.95]Tell you that you've been a good boy
[01:15.99]He'll rekindle all the dreams
[01:19.31]It took you a lifetime to destroy
[01:24.79]He'll reach deep into the hole
[01:27.52]Heal your shrinking soul
[01:29.30]But there won't be a single thing that you can do
[01:33.80]He's a god, he's a man
[01:36.46]He's a ghost, he's a guru
[01:42.33]They're whispering his name
[01:44.38]Through this disappearing land
[01:46.56]But hidden in his coat Is a red right hand
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[01:59.03]You don't have no money?
[02:02.21]He'll get you some
[02:08.19]You don't have no car?
[02:11.30]He'll get you one
[02:16.65]You don't have no self-respect
[02:19.18]You feel like an insect
[02:21.71]Well don't you worry buddy
[02:24.24]Cause here he comes
[02:26.64]Through the ghettos and the barrio
[02:28.14]And the Bowery and the slums
[02:33.72]A shadow is cast wherever he stands
[02:38.08]Stacks of green paper
[02:45.76]
[02:40.04]In his red right hand
[02:42.28]
[04:08.31]You'll see him in your nightmares
[04:10.92]You'll see him in your dreams
[04:16.22]He'll appear out of nowhere but
[04:19.64]He ain't what he seems
[04:24.98]You'll see him in your head
[04:27.29]On the TV screen
[04:29.78]And hey buddy, I'm warning
[04:31.81]You to turn it off
[04:34.09]He's a ghost, he's a god
[04:35.92]He's a man, he's a guru
[04:41.12]You're one microscopic cog
[04:42.98]In his catastrophic plan
[04:45.67]Designed and directed
[04:47.47]By his red right hand
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[04:54.06]Written By Nick Cave, Thomas Wydler & Mick Harvey
[04:56.37]Drums Thomas Wydler
[04:58.10]Shaker Mick Harvey
[04:59.62]Bells Mick Harvey
[05:01.70]Bass Guitar Martyn P. Casey
[05:03.49]Guitar Mick Harvey & Blixa Bargeld
[05:05.30]Oscillator Nick Cave
[05:07.19]Organ Nick Cave
[05:08.91]Vocal Nick Cave
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