Red Right Hand

Take a little walk to the edge of town

Go across the tracks

Where the viaduct looms, ilke a bird of doom

As it shifts and cracks

Where secrets lie in the border fires, in the humming wires

Hey man, you knowyou're never coming back

Past the square, past the bridge, past the mills, past the stacks

On a gathering storm comesa tall handsome man

In a dusty black coat witha red right hand

He'll wrap you in his arms, tell you that you've been a good boy

He'll rekindle all the dreamsit took you a lifetime to destroy

He'll reach deep into the hole, heal your shrinking soul

Hey buddy, you know you'renever ever coming back

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

They're whispering his namethrough this disappearing land

But hidden in his coatis a red right hand