I hurt myself today,

[Dave Reynolds]

To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that’s real

The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything

What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end

You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear my crown of shit
On my liar’s chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stain of time
The feeling disappears
You are someone else
I am still right here

What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end

You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way
----------------------------You should hear this one when Johnny Cash sings it.---------------

[xmas74]

1. I've heard Johnny's version.

But I go nuts over Trent's.
(Khash, where are you? He just posted some NIN lyrics!)

[Dave Reynolds]

3. I like them both,

but Johnny made me *feel* it.

[xmas74]

6. For me,

knowing what Trent was going through at the time that he wrote it, I felt it more from him. Fame, heavy amounts of drugs, alcoholism-it was his personal warning to himself that he didn't heed until years later.
Johnny did a good job of it and if anyone besides Trent had done it I would have thought Johnny's was the best version. But Trent's voice haunts me in that song.
And it helps that he's hot. I like to look at him a lot.

[SeattleGirl]

2. Oh, man!

bliss_eternal and I were talking about the Johnny Cash song/video today. Beautiful, painful, haunting.....

[Dave Reynolds]

4. You can hear the pain in his voice, can't you?

Gave me chills.

Not as many chills as a sound paddling, though. :P

[SeattleGirl]

5. Definitely chills!

By the way, ready for another? :evilgrin:

[Dave Reynolds]

7. Thank you ma'am, may I have another?

O8)

[SeattleGirl]

8. Why, of course!

:spank: :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank: :evilgrin:

[LynzM]

9. Cash makes me cry.....

One of the only singers who does. Briarius loves his stuff, especially this one, though.

[RetroLounge]

10. The Cash Video of this made me cry...

:cry:

He fucking owned this song...

http://www.losthighwayrecords.com/e/cash11403.html

RL

[SeattleGirl]

11. I know you're not alone in that, RL

:cry:

[khashka]

12. Enough already!

Although I have great respect for Cash's talents and also the guts it took to cover it - this is Trent's song and no one sings it like him.

Trent made me cry.

Khash.

[threehensandacow]

13. i was listening to johnny monday night

while i was going through my own version of unrelentless pain. this one came on and all i could do was nod my head and try not to cry.

[RetroLounge]

20. I played the video last night

and didn't bother NOT crying...

RL

[threehensandacow]

24. so much crying lately

feel like all i can do now is laugh. and then cry. and then laugh some more. i don't know, not holding back. trying not to. cry, laugh, it's all the same, isn't it? sort of? maybe? oops, gotta run to work.

[XemaSab]

14. Trent sang it pretty good, Cash did aight

BUT DAVID BOWIE FUCKIN' OWNED THAT SHIT LIKE YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE!!!!!!!

Plangent.

Plangent.

[Dave Reynolds]

15. Ziggy Stardust rulez!!

You know, I have never replaced an "s" with a "z" on purpose before.

I may have to damage myself now.

[XemaSab]

16. You mean, like, hurt yourself?

To see if you still feel?

Very interesting.....

[Dave Reynolds]

17. Very much like that.

But I didn't want to copycat myself.

[XemaSab]

18. I see....

n/t

[Spider Jerusalem]

26. Yeah, the Bowie/Reznor duet is my favourite version...

Johnny's comes in second, and Trent's original third.

[SKKY]

19. I think Trent Reznor is probably the second best "musician" of...

...my time. Second only to Prince. I would love for those 2 to go into the studio for about 6 months, put their collective musical genius' together, and see what emerges. I bet it would be phenominal.

[Bassic]

21. Johnny's version is excellent but...

Trent's original brings me back to high school. The Downward Spiral really kicked ass.

[LaraMN]

22. Definitely part of my high school soundtrack as well.

I've many very tangible memories associated with that album and Pretty Hate Machine.

[Bassic]

23. Yeah me too.

And with Broken as well. His stuff was great back then.


I suddenly feel a lot older :)

[xmas74]

25. PHM was a big one for me in high school.

Disturbing memories w/ that in the background but still takes me back to high school to this day.
TDS was when I was in college. I remember quite well the first time my friend played "March of the Pigs" on the college station.
Good times.