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"And I heard as it were the noise of thunder
One of the four beasts saying come and see and I saw
And behold a white horse"
(Revelation 6:1-2)

There's a man going around taking names
And he decides who to free and who to blame
Everybody won't be treated quite the same
There will be a golden ladder reaching down
When the man comes around

The hairs on your arm will stand up
At the terror in each sip and each sup
Will you partake of that last offered cup
Or disappear into the potter's ground
When the man comes around?

Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers
One hundred million angels singing
Multitudes are marching to a big kettledrum
Voices calling and voices crying
Some are born and some are dying
It's Alpha and Omega's kingdom come

And the whirlwind is in the thorn trees
The virgins are all trimming their wicks
The whirlwind is in the thorn trees
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks
Until Armageddon, no shalam, no shalom

Then the father hen will call his chickens home
The wise man will bow down before the thorn
And at his feet they will cast the golden crowns
When the man comes around

Whoever is unjust let him be unjust still
Whoever is righteous let him be righteous still
Whoever is filthy let him be filthy still
Listen to the words long written down
When the man comes around

Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers
One hundred million angels singing
Multitudes are marching to a big kettledrum
Voices calling and voices crying
Some are born and some are dying
It's Alpha and Omega's kingdom come

And the whirlwind is in the thorn trees
The virgins are all trimming their wicks
The whirlwind is in the thorn trees
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks
In measured hundred weight and penny pound
When the man comes around

"And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts
And I looked and behold, a pale horse
And his name that sat on him was Death
And Hell followed with him."
(Revelations 6:7-8)

grant May 06, 2013 - 04:46	darcand wrote: Sure makes the hairs on my arm stand up. EXACTLY ! Sheer musical genius. [ Reply ]
Bleyfusz May 06, 2013 - 04:46	We've just repelled ghosts. [ Reply ]
Stingray Apr 05, 2013 - 01:03	Am I really the only one who neither likes his voice nor his songs? [ Reply ]
Hannio Mar 20, 2013 - 07:08	ch83575 wrote: Im not interested in deep questions about god and divinity, but I would really like to know what a father hen is. I have several hens, and I am completely positive that none of them have fathered anything. That is an allusion to Matthew 23:37, where Jesus says "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing." . In orthodox Christian theology, Jesus is God the Father incarnate, hence the "Father Hen" reference in this song. There are other passages in the old testament that allude to a God as a mother as well as a father to His people. [ Reply ]
VH1 Mar 20, 2013 - 07:07	I am alway shocked to see or better read, how Intoleranz and Igorance are ripe in the world wide web. Music is a completely personal thing, everybody likes different stuff and responds to different music in different ways. Music was/is created to cater for everyone's taste. Where I come from we have a saying: One man's owl is the other man's nightingale. So I can for the live of me not understand, why so many people become so agitatet and so vile and volatile about one song or the other. RP has the gadet "Play something different", so if one does not like a song, one can choose another one. But some find it necessay to even become insulting about a song or an artist, this is beyond me. Music is supposed to be a universal language of tolerance and love. But tolerance seems to be the hardest thing for some people. Intolerance for others leads to seperation, seperation leads to prejudice, prejudice leads to hate. Isn't there enough of it already in this world? Is it really necessary to bring this into Music as well? Somehow, I don't think so! [ Reply ]
max_p Mar 20, 2013 - 06:59	ch83575 wrote: Im not interested in deep questions about god and divinity, but I would really like to know what a father hen is. I have several hens, and I am completely positive that none of them have fathered anything. I've heard of a boy named Sue! [ Reply ]
Bleyfusz Mar 20, 2013 - 06:58	What the fuck makes me like it so much? [ Reply ]
darcand Feb 16, 2013 - 21:43	Sure makes the hairs on my arm stand up. [ Reply ]
PixelPushers Jan 16, 2013 - 14:29	This song was also used effectively in a scene from the Sarah Conner Chronicles. Just YouTube "Sarah Conner and Johnny Cash" to check it out. kingart wrote: This track closed out the HBO series about the Iraq war, Generation Kill. I heard the first 60 seconds as the final credits closed, iTuned it up and had it on my pod before the last seconds. Other than Running the World, a Jarvis Cocker tune that closed out Children of Men, it was the fastest tune load I ever did. [ Reply ]
d-don Jan 16, 2013 - 14:19	rockpommel16 wrote: ....absolutely dislike most of your comments...... [ Reply ]
philbertr Dec 31, 2012 - 21:37	I just had to get up from my very comfortable recliner chair to turn the volume up. Way up. (Yea, I know, old technology. But its what I got. And it works pretty damn good.) [ Reply ]
jktravl Nov 30, 2012 - 12:57	Johnny Cash is up there in his own gendre, as Sinatra is to his. 2 totally different styles, men and singers, but honorable in their own right. [ Reply ]
nagsheadlocal Nov 30, 2012 - 12:55	I'd like to interrupt this religious dispute to note that the production on this is some of my favorite, that guitar sounds fantastic, like it's here in my room with me. And now, back to discussing whether the universe even pays any attention to us. [ Reply ]
Saire Oct 14, 2012 - 12:09	I don't believe in God, but there's something quite likeable about this tune! [ Reply ]
rockpommel16 Oct 14, 2012 - 11:55	Stingray wrote: Absolutely dislike his preaching and story-telling! ....absolutely dislike most of your comments...... [ Reply ]
Stingray Oct 14, 2012 - 11:52	Absolutely dislike his preaching and story-telling! [ Reply ]
kingart Sep 28, 2012 - 17:19	This track closed out the HBO series about the Iraq war, Generation Kill. I heard the first 60 seconds as the final credits closed, iTuned it up and had it on my pod before the last seconds. Other than Running the World, a Jarvis Cocker tune that closed out Children of Men, it was the fastest tune load I ever did. [ Reply ]
ch83575 Sep 28, 2012 - 17:18	Im not interested in deep questions about god and divinity, but I would really like to know what a father hen is. I have several hens, and I am completely positive that none of them have fathered anything. [ Reply ]
baddog8it Aug 28, 2012 - 04:41	It definitely SUCKS! But it's not the singer.... [ Reply ]
neuticle Jul 27, 2012 - 18:46	vluvlu wrote: My gosh, this song sucks. Maybe it's not the song.......but the singer. you are kidding right? Please say your joking [ Reply ]