sing along with me...

[TheDR4KE]

It's Nick Cave's Red Right Hand and you'll know why I picked it in a couple of posts...

Quack,

the D (with 497 posts)


<The song intro fades in; the slow piano chords sounding eery and powerful. You can hear the vocalists breath as he looks up from the microphone at the audience.>

 

[TheDR4KE]

<Looking up, he starts to sing. An edge of anger is in his voice. Deep, spooky, menacing...>

Take a litle walk to the edge of town
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



(498 posts)

 

[TheDR4KE]

<He finishes the stanza with more power as our lead character is introduced...>


On a gathering storm comes
a tall handsome man
In a dusty black coat with
a red right hand





(499 posts)

 

[TheDR4KE]

<And then ... in the next stanza ... one word comes up for emphasis. It seems like it has been so long, but finally another milestone is passed.>


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
Hey buddy, you know you're
never ever coming back
He's a god, he's a man,
he's a ghost, he's a guru

 

[TheDR4KE]

<and as the title changes, he wanders off into the distance quietly singing the rest of the song more to himself than anyone else...>


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

You ain't got no money?
He'll get you some
You ain't got no car? He'll get you one
You ain't got 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

(Organ solo)

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
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 microscopic cog
in his catastrophic plan
Designed and directed by
his red right hand

(Organ solo)





Quack,

the D

 

[T.H. Oughts]

he's a guru

You thought about all that didn't you.

 

[TheDR4KE]

You know .... somehow I'm finding "(Organ solo)" a particularly funny instruction.

Chuckling,

the D

 

[TheDR4KE]

You thought about all that didn't you.

Maybe

 

[T.H. Oughts]

Maybe

Tease.....

 

[perks]

COngratulations, sugahduck...

and very classy, although, I prefer organ duets.