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Nick Cave, só porque sim

Red Right Hand, do álbum Let Love In, editado em !994

Verdadeiramente nunca há um motivo para explicar porque um determinado tema de Nick Cave mexe connosco ou porque gostamos dele.

É só porque sim. Porque fala connosco. E é isto.

Fica a curiosidade de o título da canção simbolizar o castigo divino, uma ameaça sempre presente, ou até como já sugerido, a mão de Satanás. 

Para quem segue séries poderá reconhecer esta canção em duas que se tornaram de culto: a série, já longínqua no tempo, X-Files de 1993 e outra, bem mais recente, de nome Peaky Blinders.

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, 

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 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, 

but 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 

through this disappearing land 

But hidden in his coat 

is a red right hand 

You don't have no money? 

He'll get you some 

You don't have no car? 

He'll get you one 

You don't have 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 

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

pensamento da semana (e de uma vida)

L'altra par

Sempre o caos, sempre os telemóveis.

série "sad animal facts" - XCIX