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Cheryl Waters :
08/10/2022 10:36 AM
The phrase "red right hand" is from a line in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost that refers to divine vengeance.
While writing the lyrics, Cave filled an entire notebook with descriptions of the town the song is set in, including maps and sketches of prominent buildings, virtually none of which made it into the lyrics.
https://nyti.ms/3Pc8wJ1
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John Richards :
08/09/2022 07:29 AM
The phrase "red right hand" is from a line in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost that refers to divine vengeance.
While writing the lyrics, Cave filled an entire notebook with descriptions of the town the song is set in, including maps and sketches of prominent buildings, virtually none of which made it into the lyrics.
https://nyti.ms/3Pc8wJ1
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Cheryl Waters :
06/03/2022 10:39 AM
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John Richards :
05/20/2022 08:02 AM
Listen to Nick Cave's former paramour, PJ Harvey, as she covers this one for the Netflix show, "Peaky Blinders": https://kexp.org/read/2019/10/23/pj-harvey-covers-nick-cave-bad-seeds-classic-red-right-hand/.
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The title comes from John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, in which it refers to the vengeful hand of God. ("What if the breath that kindled those grim fires, / Awaked, should blow them into sevenfold rage, / And plunge us in the flames; or from above / Should intermitted vengeance arm again / His red right hand to plague us?". --Book II, 170-174)
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Cheryl Waters :
02/28/2022 12:08 PM
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