FOUR HORSES EP (2013)

 
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Produced by Nathan Wade & Scott Colburn
Engineered & Recorded by Scott Colburn

Basic tracking recorded live at Gravel Voice Studio November 5-7, 2010.
Additional vocal and instrumental overdubs recorded
December 2010 through March 2011.

Mixed by Julian Martlew in early April 2011.
Mastered at RFI by Ed Brooks on June 15, 2011.

Words & Music by Nathan Wade
All songs arranged by
Brian Alter, Sam Collins, and Nathan Wade

Brian Alter - drums, backing vocals
Sam Collins - bass, keyboards, backing vocals
Nathan Wade - guitars, lead & backing vocals


WHITE HORSE

White Knight / Full of light
Eyes of thunder and a crown of gold
Hit the town / Lost & found
Building armor out of dead man’s bones

Behold the new wave / tighten up the reigns
Hear your lover’s voice / come to kill your pain

Jet black / Cadillac
Swift shooter riding way down low
Time to kill / Take the wheel
Prep the needle, set loose your bow

Behold the new wave / tighten up the reigns
Hear your lover’s voice / come to kill your pain
We’ll ride the White Horse down

Think twice / Anti-Christ
God electric, god of all you know
Throw the game / mine the vein
Now you’ll never dream a night alone

Behold the new wave / tighten up the reigns
Hear your lover’s voice / come to kill your pain
We’ll ride the White Horse down

Let’s hear it for the Golden Days
One by one they all just burn away

We’ll ride the White Horse down
We’ll ride the White Horse down

BLACK HORSE

I’m living in exile / I keep counting the days
For every good thing coming I / just throw it all away
I’ve traveled the wasteland / in search of my soul
I tried to bury it deep down / along with self control

Oh, God of Plenty / Tell me, when will it end?
Oh, The hunger comes easy
Until the Black Horse drags it away

I’m swimming in excess / It’s never enough
I tried moderation but I / keep on calling my bluff
I straddled the Black Horse / So ragged and thin
We go riding into the void while my / demons come closing in

Oh, God of Plenty / Tell me, when will it end?
Oh, The hunger comes easy
Until the Black Horse drags it away

I’m searching for substance / trading bones for the bread
But the Black Horse comes to chase the / future right out of my head

Oh, God of Plenty / Tell me, When will it end?
Oh, The hunger comes easy
Until the Black Horse drags it away



PALE HORSE

 Get inside my Mustang, Ramona
Before your father & sister know you’re gone
I’ve got a world of pain to show you
But first: I’m gonna wear you out (I’m gonna wear you out)

 Let’s baptize them all now with fire
Like Apostles of Destruction we’ll hit the town
They’ll cry for mercy down beneath my wheels
Who’s ready for a night of hit & run? (a night of hit & run)

Did you ever think of dying?
Did you hear the Horseman’s call?
The Pale Horse engine races
Let’s watch the world come falling down

 There ain’t forgiveness in the end, Ramona
Just a total eclipse of the soul’s desire
Everyone you know is going underground
But you & I keep riding on (you & I keep riding on)

 Did you ever think of dying?
Did you hear the Horseman’s call?
The Pale Horse engine races
Let’s watch the world come falling down

 When Death comes riding, Hell ain’t far behind
When Death comes riding, Hell ain’t far behind

 Did you ever think of dying?
Did you hear the Horseman’s call?
The Pale Horse engine races
Let’s watch the world come falling down

RED HORSE

Caught on film: our dying days
War-torn streets all wind away
Violet veils, the broken lens
Never to catch the light again

Outlaws singing songs for the Devil
Angels coming down to our level
As we dance in the blood of the Lamb

The clouds rend down a jagged scar
Asteria sheds her robe of stars
The King of Tyre, a serpent’s kiss
Empires fall into the abyss

Outlaws singing songs for the Devil
|Angels coming down to our level
As we dance in the blood of the Lamb

From the Valley of Skulls comes a crimson light
The armies of the world they fall in the night
Mars draws close, the tides run high
Red Horse rides across the sky

Outlaws singing songs for the Devil
Angels coming down to our level
As we dance in the blood of the Lamb
(The blood of the Lamb, The blood of the Lamb)

Red Horse rides across the sky
All your saints align to die
Their cries rang out, now all is quiet
Red Horse rides across the sky