Letra de
Red Right Hand

La canción Red Right Hand de Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds fue inspirada en un poema épico de John Milton, llamado Paradise Lost. La expresión Red Right Hand es utilizada en el poema para referirse a la venganza de Dios. La canción se hizo muy conocida por formar parte de la banda sonora de varias series y películas.

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

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
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 gu-ru
They're whispering his name through this disappearing land
But hidden in his coat is a red right hand

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 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

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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
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 gu-ru
You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan
De-signed and directed by his red right hand