Published: 2012-10-17 16:57 Selection chords: Sofia Davis
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Take a little walk to the edge of town,
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Go across the tracks
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Where the viaduct looms like a bird of doom,
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As it shifts and cracks
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Where secrets lie in the border fires, in the humming wires,
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Hey man, you know youʼre never coming back
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Past the square, past the bridge,
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Past the mills, past the stacks
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On a gathering storm comes a tall handsome man
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In a dusty black coat with a red right hand
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Heʼll wrap you in his arms,
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Tell you that youʼve been a good boy
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Heʼll rekindle all the dreams
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It took you a lifetime to destroy
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Heʼll reach deep into the hole, heal your shrinking soul,
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But there wonʼt be a single thing that you can do
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Heʼs a ghost, heʼs a god, heʼs a man, heʼs a guru
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Theyʼre whispering his name through this disappearing land
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But hidden in his coat is a red right hand
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You donʼt own no money? Heʼll get you some
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You donʼt have no car? Heʼll get you one
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You donʼt have no self respect, you feel like an insect,
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Well donʼt you worry buddy cause here he comes
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Through the ghetto and the barrio and the bowery and the slum
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A shadow is cast wherever he stands
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Stacks of green paper in his red right hand
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Youʼll see him in your nightmares, youʼll see him in your dreams
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Heʼll appear out of nowhere but he aint what he seems
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Youʼll see him in your head, on the TV screen
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And hey buddy, Iʼm warning you to turn it off
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Heʼs a ghost, heʼs a god, heʼs a man, heʼs a guru
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Youʼre one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan
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Designed and directed by his Red Right Hand
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