Red Right Hand

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

A red right hand

He'll wrap you up 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 in 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 right hand

A red right hand

You don't have no money?

Well, he'll get you some

You don't have no car?

He'll get you one

You don't have 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

Red right hand

Red right hand

Red right 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 what he seems

Because, he taught the theory

Well, you'll see him in your head

And hey buddy on the TV screen

You'll see him, in your head

And on the TV screen

(He's a god, he's man, he's a guru)

He's a ghost, he's a god

He's a man, he's a guru

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

Red right hand

Red right hand

Red right hand

(Red right hand)

Your nightmares are real

(Red right hand)

You'll see him in your nightmares

'Cause your nightmares are real

(Red right hand)

These are based on the things you want

And, you can get in fucking trouble if you try to get him

(Red right hand)

And he puts those things in your dreams

He will kill out of nowhere, in many many guises

(Red right hand)

He ain't any particular thing

(Red right, red right, red right, red right)

He's a young, he's a her, he's shit, he's a piss

He's a head, he's a foot, in the penis an ass

He's a ghost, he's a god, he's a man

He's a guru, yeah well