Red Right Hand

Standard tuning

[Verse 1]


Take a little 

walk to the ed

ge of town
and go across the tracks

Where the viad

uct looms,
like a bird of doom
As it shifts..and cracks
      
Where secrets 

lie in the bor

der fires,
in the humming wires
Hey man, you know
you're never coming..back

Past the squar

e, past the br

idge,
past the mills, past the stacks

On a gathering

 storm comes
a tall handsome man
     
in a dusty bla

ck coat with
              
a red right ha

   
nd


[Verse 2]


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 de

ep into the ho

le,
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 whispe

ring his name
through this disappearing land
    
But hidden in 

his coat
              
is a red right

      
 hand


[Verse 3]


You don't have

 no money?
He'll get you some
You don't have no car? 
He'll get you one
    
You don't have

 no self-respe

ct,
you feel like an insect
Well don't you worry buddy,
'cause here he comes

Through the gh

ettos and the 

barrio
and the bowery and the slum
  
A shadow is ca

st wherever he

 stands

Stacks of gree

n paper in his
red right hand




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[Verse 4]


You'll see him

 in your night

mares,
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 mic

roscopic cog
in his catastrophic plan
  
Designed and d

irected by his
Red right hand



[Solo]

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