“The hairs on your arm will stand up.
At the terror in each sip and in each sup.
Will you partake of that last offered cup,
Or disappear into the potter's ground.
When the man comes around.”

—  Johnny Cash

Song lyrics, American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002), The Man Comes Around

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American singer-songwriter 1932–2003

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