The Man Comes Around (song)

The Man Comes Around is a country song by Johnny Cash, who on his album American IV 2002: The Man Comes Around was released. He is the Last Judgment and the return of Jesus Christ and is one of the last songs Cash wrote.

Content

The song begins with three rows from the Book of Revelation with a reference to the first of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The following text, written by Cash has numerous references to the Bible, such as the occurrence of a voice of thunder. In the Bible, God's voice is often described as " loud clap of thunder ." Later, Cash also pointed out that God's voice was just as present as the trumpet sounds.

In the first lines of text cash draws the picture of a man who goes around and quoted names of those persons whom he blames or freed. Furthermore, it says in the chorus that the " Alpha and Omega" kingdom had come. Cash writes that countless people make a pilgrimage to the chapel, singing hundred million angels, trumpets sounded, voices screaming and crying and people die and are born. Later it says that the unrighteous, righteous and dirty should continue to be unjust, righteous and dirty, the people who want to be saved to " hear the words that were written a long time ago " only.

The song ends as it began. Cash reads again in front of the Book of Revelation. This excerpt is from the fourth horseman, the death, subsequent to hell.

Formation

Cash said that no song he ever wrote, so much of his time claimed as this one. The piece is based on a dream, had the cash in the 1990s. In it, he met the Queen of England, who compared him with a thorn bush in the whirlwind. Cash was sure to have heard the term before, and found him later in the book of Job. Cash said he had written verses 40 to 50, which were not used for the song.

Recording and publication

Cash recorded the song for his album American IV: The Man Comes Around on. Busy is the ballad with Randy Scruggs and Smokey Hormel on acoustic guitars and Benmont Tench the piano and the organ.

The piece was published in 2002 as a single, but did not make it into the charts. The album placed in the Country album charts of Billboard magazine ranked second.

The song was also used as a soundtrack in the movie Dawn of the Dead.