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Red Right Hand

from Bah! by Schillaci Death Stare

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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, and the humming wires
well, 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 and tell ya that you've been a good boy
he'll rekindle all those dreams it took you a lifetime to destory
he'll reach deep in the hole, heal your shrinking soul
and 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 whispering his name 'cross this disappearing land
but hidden in his coat
is a red right hand

you don't have no money? he'll get you some
if you haven't got no car, he'll get you one
you've got no self-respect, you feel like an insect
well, don't you worry, buddy, 'cause here he comes
through the ghetto and the barrows
and the Bowery, and the slums

a shadow is cast, wherever he stands
stacks of green paper
in his red right hand

you'll see in your nightmares, you'll see him in your dreams
he'll appear out of nowhere
but he's not what he seems
you'll see him in your head and 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 guru

you're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan
designed and directed
by his red right hand

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from Bah!, released April 25, 2020
nick cave and the bad seeds

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Schillaci Death Stare London, UK

Schillaci Death Stare was formed as an idea/one-man-band. Lead single 'Hotbox Shed Blues' was the opening track on the now lost debut EP 'Whiskey Is £24, But I Still Party Like It's £19.99', released in April 2016. The track was subsequently re-recorded for the second EP, 'Shock Anonymous' and accompanied with a new video in October 2019.

A single is due to be released in April 2022. ... more

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