More songs by Nick Cave
Description
Lyricist, Composer, All Instruments, Associated Performer, Producer: Nick Cave
Producer, All Instruments: Warren Ellis
Producer, All Instruments: Luis Almau
Composer: Mick Harvey
Composer: Thomas Wydler
Mixing Engineer: Drew Dungate Smith
Mixing Engineer: Antony Genn
Mixing Engineer: Martin Slattery
Mastering Engineer: Stuart Hawkes
Lyrics and translation
Original
Take a little 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.
On a gathering storm comes a tall handsome man in a dusty black coat with a red right hand.
He'll wrap you up in his arms.
Tell you that you've been good girls and boys.
He'll rekindle all of those dreams it took you a lifetime to destroy.
He'll reach deep into the hole. Heal your shrinking soul.
Warn the people you know you're never coming back.
He's a ghost, he's a god, he's a man, he's a guru.
Well, whispering his name through this disappearing land.
But hidden in his coat is a red right hand.
You'll see him in your nightmares. You'll meet 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 a TV screen.
Hey people, I'm a-warning you to turn it off.
He's a ghost, he's a god, he's a man, he's a guru.
We're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan.
Designed and directed by his red right hand