Hurt...

[SPKrazy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go
Johnny Cash Version not 9 inch nails

:cry: such a beautifully painful song...

I'm always astonished at how much it moves me...

(sorry dialup folks- here's the words below)

Hurt lyrics

I hurt myself today
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
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here


What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end
And 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

[GenDem]

1. I love that Johnny Cash song

Did he write this after he lost June Carter?

[SPKrazy]

2. I Don't Think He Wrote It.

but the video is definitely after June died...

I think it is a 9 inch nails song, but I love his version best.

It's so sad seeing June computer edited into the video.

He made it probably less than a year before he died.

[NightWatcher]

4. Trent Reznor said that Johnny did it best and "he owns it"

I think that I heard that this was the last video footage of Johnny before he passed.

[SPKrazy]

5. Wow! That Rocks!

and I believe it is the last video footage of Johnny before he passed.

Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[Coyote_Bandit]

53. The video was made

in late March or early April about a month before June died - and about the time her own health problems were first diagnosed. It was filmed in their home in Hendersonville on the lake. Barry Gibb has since purchased the house.

June had heart valve replacement surgery in May 2003. She was reported to have been alert after the surgery. During the night she had a massive heart attack and was placed on life support. A few days later Johnny and the family made the decision to remove the life support. It was a tragic year for the Cash family. After Johnny died, June's daughter Rosie died as did Johnny's first wife Vivian.

Johnny's last two public performances were at the Carter Fold in Hiltons, Virginia. They were both after June's passing. The last performance was in August about a month before he died. Both performances were videotaped by fans. The last song he performed in public was "Understand Your Man" a song he had not performed in many years. The last song he wrote and recorded was "Asthma Coming Down the 309" which is on the American V CD.

Johnny sang the first song I ever remember hearing. I've followed his life and his music for over forty years now. I've learned a lot of Cash trivia in the process. He was an artist - and he is the only public person I have ever found the least bit interesting or inspiring. Maybe part of that fascination is due to the fact that my own father is near Johhny's age and also came from the rural remote poor agricultural area of north central and north east Arkansas.

Rest in peace, Johnny.

edit for grammar

[Guava Jelly]

3. It was a Nine Inch Nails remake

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tgSWRicWIy4
He sure as hell did it justice.
His version of "In My Life" ..John lennon
Moves me

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HW93vni3wJw
edited to add "In My Life"

[SPKrazy]

7. Oh GoPsUx!

damn you

that is a wonderful song... off the same CD "When The Man Comes Around" which is another great song.

I miss Johnny :cry:

yes it does move me too friend!

[Guava Jelly]

12. Not to mention this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGGSTiDOjKU
The Mercy Seat
He was one of a kind he was..:(

[SPKrazy]

14. Man...

:(

there will never be another Johnny

:(

[mentalsolstice]

17. I was raised on JC...both of them...

I hated Johnny Cash as a youngster, because he got shoved down my throat. He came to my city about 2 years before he died, and I had a conflicting interest, but I really wanted to see him. I regret I didn't.

On V-day I got a $50 gift cert for Itunes, and "Hurt" is at the top of my list!

[SPKrazy]

19. Whew...

both of them...

well Johnny didn't get shoved down my throat and i'm glad for that. in fact my parents didn't like him. I only came to love him as an adult. I just think he was great, and flawed, but his flaws enhanced his greatness somehow.

The man in black... and why he wore it were just the mission statement for liberalism in my mind.

:yourock:

[mentalsolstice]

22. I never could understand it!?

My parents were so repressively upstanding. Yet they (really my dad) loved him! As a kid I rebelled. Now it's funny, because I probably understand his influence on modern music more than they do,(particularly in Adult Alternative, which is what I'm into).

[SPKrazy]

24. That is an interesting thing...

that your repressive parents found the wild man Cash to be upstanding.

I think it is so cool how JC found a following and has had such an influence on alternative music and it's fans.

:hi:

[mentalsolstice]

28. Interesting was how they excused his actions

Kinda like what we're seeing today with the multiply-married Republican candidates! I saw the movie, and I took away from it that we're all human and we all get in bad circumstances from time to time. Yet in real life, my dad (especially) was not so forgiving of such, unless it was to his benefit...for example, it allowed him to support a certain celebrity or politician.

[SPKrazy]

32. Wow, just wow!

it is just like that...

like with Newtie floating his trial balloon talking about having an affair during the Clinton impeachment

:rofl:

:mad:

[mentalsolstice]

34. Yep, I've got the inside scoop...

to the republican mind, and it's scary as hell! Johnny (and the other JC, as well) is probably rolling over in his grave as I type.

[SPKrazy]

36. Didn't The Director Of Titanic Claim To Have Just Found

the other JC's grave? LOL

:shrug:

U b funny!

:rofl:

[AlCzervik]

6. i love his cover of that, i have a playlist on my ipod with that on it as well as

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxjgcfAv2OE
and this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMrZ7lChK-g

and then i go cry.

[SPKrazy]

8. I'm There chimpsrsmarter...

:cry:

great songs

oh my...

[AlCzervik]

10. when i saw Neil Young sing that live on tv i was bawling.

:hi: :hug:

[SPKrazy]

11. Yeah, That's Pretty Awesome!

:hug:

:hi:

[Guava Jelly]

9. The second tune I never paid much attn to.

Until a really good friend turned me on to it.
Now I just love it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf36v0epfmI

[SPKrazy]

13. Wow, That Is Awesome Too!

:pals:

[Danger Mouse]

15. I liked the NiN version better.

But that's just me.

[SPKrazy]

16. It's Very Different... And It Is Just Not My Fav...

but that's just me

I heard JC's version first

:hi:

how's life in the loser's thread?

Haven't seen it lately?

:shrug:

[Danger Mouse]

18. That's for LOSERS...

I didn't really know where to go with it...and honestly, I suffer from a lack of confidence and motivation, so I kind of just...let it die. Ha ha ha.
Of course, I've liked NiN for some time, so I heard their version first, and it's been one of my favorite songs for years. I was impressed with JC's cover, and impressed that he chose such a beautifully painful song...and it's true, the songs are very different, in tone and meaning, though the words are the same.
Reznor's version is harsher, colder, and more despairing...where Cash's version is more weary and agonized.
Emotionally, the are very close...isolation, pain, hopelessness...they just approach it in a different way.
When Reznor sings it, it sounds more bitter, and since I'm by nature a very bitter person, it appeals to me.
I'm a sick and twisted mind.

[SPKrazy]

20. Yeah, Reznor is more bitter... and the video is pretty wild..

Cash's version is one that it is screaming out to his dead June, the one love of his life that he always had...

Such a sad and tragic life too. I remember hearing him speak at a meeting at a conference for the Mid South Summer School on Alcohol and other drug studies... he told his story to that point and it was quite a story.

He was quite a man, and I guess that is what comes across to me in his version of Hurt.

Cash had his own brand of bitter too... and the song shows that as well for him I believe.

Weary and agonized for sure, but also very much grabbing at MY heartstrings...

It seems so appropriate to listen to it today for me as it reminds me of life, and pain, and despair... and that is what I'm all about when I'm not SPK the lounge flirt.

[Danger Mouse]

21. You are correct.

Pain, despair, you feel that a lot lately?

[SPKrazy]

23. Do I?

a lot?

should I buy the book Dianetics?

:rofl:

as a matter of fact I do my friend

[Danger Mouse]

25. Come down to our scientology center for a brainwash...er...

personality test. Yeah, ehem.
What's your major malfunction?

[SPKrazy]

26. Well Mr. Hubbard...

I can't seem to find whirled peas, or peas of mine, anywhere?

:shrug:

[Danger Mouse]

27. Do either even exist? I'm not so sure.

Join Scientology, funnel your money into our iron fist so we can crush all opposition, and we will dress you in a naval uniform complete with awesome jackboots.
Sound good?

[SPKrazy]

29. I Wanna Drive The Ship!!!! I Wanna Drive The Ship!!!!!!

:rofl:

in the navy...the Scientology Navy

[Danger Mouse]

30. They honestly do have a navy. It's called the Sea Org.

When L. Ron Hubbard could find basically no safe harbor anywhere, he put to sea with his fleet and stayed there.

[SPKrazy]

31. Yah, I Know!

I've seen a pic of them on their ship..

:rofl:

[Danger Mouse]

33. They've also killed at least a couple of their members.

People give Scientology way too much credit.
They're sick, dangerous people, and I pity the people who get swindled into following their lies.
Just like any other cult, I fear for their safety.

[SPKrazy]

37. Yeah Buddy!

Tom Cruise is the spokesman for the sanity of it's members

:rofl:

[Zookeeper]

39. 'Don't want to interrupt....

but, I once took one of those "Personality tests." It was the summer before college and I had never heard of Scientology. I naively followed a guy into an office to take the test and found out that I was complete loser who should sign up for special classes and training so I could fully realize my potential. Fortunately, I wasn't naive enough to fall for that...:)

A high school friend of mine did, however, become involved with a man who ended up giving his educational savings account to the Church of Scientology. He fell hook, line and sinker and she went with him because she was "in love."

Sad, sad, sad.

[SPKrazy]

40. Boy, Isn't That Terrific!

brainwashing, love, and money... the makings of a good book or movie eh?

:hi:

:hug:

[stuntcat]

35. wwwwow

I've never seen this, Thank you! :headbang:

[SPKrazy]

38. It's Very Cool...

and very emotional

welcome!

[ComerPerro]

41. my cousin's fiancee and I learned to play this on guitars

so he could sing it while we played at his mom's 50th.

[SPKrazy]

46. Cool...

interesting choice for his mom's 50th, was it a song she liked?

:shrug:

:hi:

[ComerPerro]

50. long story, but basically

my aunt and uncle live out in the country. So we all went out there. And my uncle used to be in a touring country band in the KC area, nothing big, just small local stuff, more for fun but nice paycheck too.

Anyway, we set up a bunch of riggings, like a drum set, amps, monitors, etc, on a flatbed that we stabilized into a trailer. And we did a couple sets of oldies standards that my aunt likes, with my uncle on vocals and rhythm, me on rhythm and lead, my cousin (not the one who sang) on drums, my cousin who sang's wife on bass and occasionally guitar. Was fun, played off and on all night, then set up some karaoke (sp).

My cousin who sang Cash likes Johnny Cash and has the perfect voice. So we did Hurt, and then he stayed up there for I Walk The Line.

[SPKrazy]

52. ...

cool!

:thumbsup:

[Cabcere]

42. Thank you...I had this song stuck in my head a day or two ago

I'll have to check out the video sometime, but I don't think I can/should do it right now - I remember seeing the music video on TV when it came out, and he looked so...well, he looked like he was hurting, and today my heart is in ruins and I don't think I can cope with any more. :cry: I will look at it later, though - that is such a beautifully emotional song! :hi:

[SPKrazy]

45. Yeah, might want to wait then...

:hug:

sorry you're having a tough day Cabcere, heart in ruins... :pals:

it'll get better, this too shall pass (whatver it is)... one of these damned days! :mad:

:hi:

[ellisonz]

43. According to iTunes I've listened to that song 68 times since September 2004.

Buddha says we are all diseased. :)

[SPKrazy]

44. Well, is it disease to appreciate music?

especially when it's Cash?

:D

[TOhioLiberal]

47. What a sad song...

...it really resonates, ya know? :hug:

[SPKrazy]

48. Yes...

it does...

it is soooo frickin' true!

What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

:hug:

[cwydro]

49. Great song

and so human. :applause:

Reminds me of a year or so ago. I am so enjoying NOT being involved with anyone.

Taking the time to learn what has made me make so many mistakes. Sometimes one has to face the fact that one causes one's own problems. For me, that is a good thing.

[SPKrazy]

51. Hey Margarita Head!

How's it hangin?

:rofl:

no kayaking at night after Margaritas though!

:hug: