13 Great Songs About Death
6. Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around
Where else to get inspiration for the death and destruction of all man than the Bible, am I right? With more Biblical references than Easter eggs in a Marvel film, 'The Man Comes Around' is from Cash's 87th studio album, the fourth in his American series and the last he'd see released before his passing less than a year later.
It opens with a passage from Revelation 6:1-2 which describes John The Apostle's vision of the optimistically-sounding Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, as previously mentioned in Revelation 4:6–9. The song outlines how mankind will be judged by God/Jesus (sources differ) come judgement day and the Second Coming of Christ.
With the inspiration of the song coming from a dream Cash had involving Queen Elizabeth II comparing him to a "thorn tree in a whirlwind" - a phrase Cash eventually found to be similar to a line in the Book of Job - this is the only song the Man in Black wrote specifically for American IV.
The song acted as the end credits song to the 2017 film Logan, giving that extra punch of emotion to Wolverine's swan-song, and was used to promote Bray Wyatt vs. The Undertaker at Wrestlemania 31, fitting perfectly with the characters involved.