I think it could hurt to have somebody so relatively effortlessly improve your work.
Cash’s version is definitely better than the original.
Great song off of a great album. The Man Comes Around is my favorite song off of that one. Zack Snyder used it to great effect in the into to Dawn of the Dead.
I was a Cash fan before being a Cash fan was cool with the new kids.
His “God’s Gonna Cut You Down” is powerful, along with a host of other songs, but his rendition of “Hurt” (along with the video) makes me weep.
Ecclesiastes with a country twang.
I have spent my life in classical and jazz music, loved bluegrass and avoided country, but I cannot watch and listen to Cash’s “Hurt” without breaking down into tears.
What have I become, my sweetest friend?
Everyone I know goes away in the end.
I saw Johnny Cash in concert twice. Both shows were excellent.
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What a great article. I love Johnny Cash’s video version.
I just listened to that song today
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’m 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
Cannot listen to it.....very powerful.
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I was never a Cash fan but always a NIN fan. I’ll take Cash’s rendition over Reznor’s all day long. The whole CD is soulful.