By the last breath of the fourth winds blow Better raise your ears The sound of hooves knocks at your door Lock up your wife and children now It's time to wield the blade For now you have got some company
The Horsemen are drawing nearer On the leather steeds they ride They have come to take your life On through the dead of night With the four Horsemen ride or choose your fate and die
You have been dying since the day you were born You know it has all been planned The quartet of deliverance rides A sinner once a sinner twice No need for confession now Cause now you have got the fight of your life
The Horsemen are drawing nearer On the leather steeds they ride They have come to take your life On through the dead of night With the four Horsemen ride or choose your fate and die
Time has taken its toll on you The lines that crack your face Famine Your body it has torn through Withered in every place Pestilence For what you have had to endure And what you have put others through Death Deliverance for you for sure There is nothing you can do
So gather round young warriors now and saddle up your steeds Killing scores with demon swords Now is the death of doers of wrong Swing the judgment hammer down Safely inside armor blood guts and sweat
The Horsemen are drawing nearer On the leather steeds they ride They have come to take your life On through the dead of night With the four Horsemen ride or choose your fate and die -- The Four Horsemen (Четыре Всадника)
Эта композиция — длинная, с непредсказуемыми, прерывистыми мотивами — стала предтечей более сложной, прогрессивной музыки, которую Metallica будет писать во второй половине 80-х. Хотя в её основе лежит простой запоминающийся рифф, песня содержит медленную ровную часть, которую Бёртон дополняет классической восходящей прогрессией, которая доходит до самых верхних ладов бас-гитары и сменяется изящным соло Хэммета.