There's a man going around taking names / and he decides who to free and who to blame / everybody won't be treated all the same / there'll 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 the big kettle drum / 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

Till Armageddon no shalom no shalom / then the father hen will call his chickens home / the wise men will bow down before the throne / and at his feet they'll cast their 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 the big kettle drum / 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 hundredweight and penny pound

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