The Four Horsemen

Song Details

Written by

  • James Hetfield
  • Lars Ulrich
  • Dave Mustaine

Total Performances

First Performed Live

Most Recent Performance

Lyrics

                        By the last breath the fourth winds blow
Better raise your ears
The sound of hooves knock at your door
Lock up your wife and children now
It’s time to wield the blade
For now you’ve got some company

The Horsemen are drawing nearer
On leather steeds they ride
They’ve 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’s all been planned
The quartet of deliverance rides
A sinner once, a sinner twice
No need for confessions now
‘cause now you’ve got the fight of your life

The Horsemen are drawing nearer
On leather steeds they ride
They’ve 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’ve had to endure
And what you have put others through
Death
Deliverance for you for sure
Now there’s 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 judgement hammer down
Safely inside armor blood guts and sweat

The Horsemen are drawing nearer
On leather steeds they ride
They’ve come to take your life
On through the dead of night
With the Four Horsemen ride
Or choose your fate and die

© 1983 Creeping Death Music (Global Music Rights)

Live Performances

November 14, 2021

Daytona Beach, FL, United States

Welcome to Rockville @ Daytona International Speedway

October 10, 2021

Sacramento, CA, United States

Aftershock @ Discovery Park

September 26, 2021

Louisville, KY, United States

Louder Than Life @ Highland Festival Grounds at KY Expo Center

August 25, 2019

Mannheim, Germany

Maimarktgelände

August 21, 2019

Warsaw, Poland

PGE Narodowy

August 16, 2019

Vienna, Austria

Ernst Happel Stadion

July 21, 2019

Moscow, Russia

Luzhniki Stadium

July 18, 2019

Tartu, Estonia

Raadi Airfield

March 6, 2019

Kansas City, MO, United States

Sprint Center

January 22, 2019

Birmingham, AL, United States

Legacy Arena at the BJCC

November 28, 2018

Boise, ID, United States

Taco Bell Arena

November 3, 2018

San Francisco, CA, United States

The All Within My Hands Helping Hands Concert & Auction @ The Masonic