Key: B
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Take a little walk to the edge of town
and go across the tracks
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Where the viaduct looms,
like a bird of doom
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Where secrets lie in the border fires,
in the humming wires
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Past the square, past the bridge,
past the mills, past the stacks
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On a gathering storm comes
a tall handsome man
E
in a dusty black coat with
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a red right hand
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He'll wrap you in his arms,
tell you that you've been a good..boy
E
He'll reach deep into the hole,
heal your shrinking soul,
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He's a god, he's a man,
he's a ghost, he's a guru
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They're whispering his name
through this disappearing land
E
But hidden in his coat
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is a red right hand
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You don't have no money?
He'll get you some
E
You don't have no self-respect,
you feel like an insect
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Through the ghettos and the barrio
and the bowery and the slum
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A shadow is cast wherever he stands
E
Stacks of green paper in his
red right hand
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You'll see him in your nightmares,
you'll see him in your dreams
E
You'll see him in your head,
on the TV screen
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He's a ghost, he's a god,
he's a man, he's a guru
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You're one microscopic cog
in his catastrophic plan
E
Designed and directed by his
Red right hand
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