Hurt
Johnny Cash 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
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 will keep myself
I would find a way
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Written by: Trent Reznor
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"Hurt" was written by Trent Reznor and first released on Nine Inch Nails' 1994 album The Downward Spiral. Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt" was released on his 2002 album, American IV: The Man Comes Around.
Rick Rubin, producer of Cash's American series and a friend of Reznor's, suggested the song to Cash. The line "crown of shit" was changed to "crown of thorns", not only removing profanity from the lyrics, but also more directly referencing Christ. Read Full Bio"Hurt" was written by Trent Reznor and first released on Nine Inch Nails' 1994 album The Downward Spiral. Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt" was released on his 2002 album, American IV: The Man Comes Around.
Rick Rubin, producer of Cash's American series and a friend of Reznor's, suggested the song to Cash. The line "crown of shit" was changed to "crown of thorns", not only removing profanity from the lyrics, but also more directly referencing Christ. The cover was released on a single with the B-side "Personal Jesus", a cover of the Depeche Mode single.
Reznor said that when Rubin first asked if Cash could cover his song, he was "flattered" but worried that "the idea sounded a bit gimmicky." He became a fan of Cash's version, however, once he saw the music video: “I pop the video in, and wow… Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps… Wow. I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine anymore… It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. [Somehow] that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning - different, but every bit as pure.”
Johnny Cash's version was awarded the Country Music Award for "Single of the Year" in 2003. It ranked as CMT's top video for 2003, #1 on CMT's 100 Greatest Country Music Videos the following year, and #1 on the Top 40 Most Memorable Music Videos on MuchMoreMusic's Listed in October 2007. As of July 2008, the single occupies the number one spot on Rate Your Music's Top Singles of the 2000s. The song is also Cash's sole chart entry on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, where it hit #33 in 2003.
The house where Cash's music video for "Hurt" was shot, which was Cash's home for nearly 30 years, was destroyed in a fire on April 10, 2007.
Rick Rubin, producer of Cash's American series and a friend of Reznor's, suggested the song to Cash. The line "crown of shit" was changed to "crown of thorns", not only removing profanity from the lyrics, but also more directly referencing Christ. Read Full Bio"Hurt" was written by Trent Reznor and first released on Nine Inch Nails' 1994 album The Downward Spiral. Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt" was released on his 2002 album, American IV: The Man Comes Around.
Rick Rubin, producer of Cash's American series and a friend of Reznor's, suggested the song to Cash. The line "crown of shit" was changed to "crown of thorns", not only removing profanity from the lyrics, but also more directly referencing Christ. The cover was released on a single with the B-side "Personal Jesus", a cover of the Depeche Mode single.
Reznor said that when Rubin first asked if Cash could cover his song, he was "flattered" but worried that "the idea sounded a bit gimmicky." He became a fan of Cash's version, however, once he saw the music video: “I pop the video in, and wow… Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps… Wow. I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine anymore… It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. [Somehow] that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning - different, but every bit as pure.”
Johnny Cash's version was awarded the Country Music Award for "Single of the Year" in 2003. It ranked as CMT's top video for 2003, #1 on CMT's 100 Greatest Country Music Videos the following year, and #1 on the Top 40 Most Memorable Music Videos on MuchMoreMusic's Listed in October 2007. As of July 2008, the single occupies the number one spot on Rate Your Music's Top Singles of the 2000s. The song is also Cash's sole chart entry on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, where it hit #33 in 2003.
The house where Cash's music video for "Hurt" was shot, which was Cash's home for nearly 30 years, was destroyed in a fire on April 10, 2007.
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Soli Deogloria
What is the chief end of man ?
Man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.
There is a reason why there is something rather than nothing and it is predicated on the uncaused, non contingent, first cause of all contingency...
God
Seek Christ Jesus the Redeemer
The cosmological argument
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CulBuMCLg0
The contingency argument
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FPCzEP0oD7I
The teleological argument
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EE76nwimuT0&t=9s
The ontological argument
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xBmAKCvWl74
The moral argument
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OxiAikEk2vU
Acts
And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.
Revelation 10:9-11
John the Baptist braught the good news that was sweet as honey
Johnny Cash braught the bitter news, make way for the return of the King
Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
Revelation 1:7
Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself? He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
John 1:22-23
Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Psalms 2:5, 12
Psalms 2:5 essentially equals Johnny Cash, by using the book of revelation, that was written by John the apostle, that is to prophecy before many people and nations and kings, and is doing that currently with the number one best selling book, the Bible. That little book.
And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
Revelation 2:21-23
"Until things start to change you'll never see me in a suite of white" - Johnny Cash the man in black.
John go do my will, tell em Gods gonna cut em down when the man comes around and when that trumpet sounds there ain't no grave that'll keep the dead in Christ down and when they rise rise out of the ground those that are left behind will be reminded of all of this and will cry cry cry.
Then shall they cry unto the Lord , but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings. Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
Micah 3:4-5
They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the Lord . Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken. Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them. Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
Jeremiah 6:14-15, 17-19
The abraham accords=peace peace when there is no peace
I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and
->parted<-my land.Joel 3:2 KJV
But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
1 Thessalonians 5:1-4
Woman=Isreal
Child=church, the body of Christ that will rule with a rod of iron led by the head of the church that is Jesus, King of Kings and Lord of Lords
Revelation 12
I see a darkness, and it's coming. And the hair on your arms will stand up and the trees will rejoice(psalms 96:12-13)
He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
Psalms 18:11-12
America use to love God alot until one day in a cafe she turned around and walked out
https://youtu.be/PQrVPuzWP24
Pounce Pounce
No, it is nothing left to archieve.
He has a lot of things money can not buy, some of them he lost (friends, familly)
That money can not buy you really anything is not the big point.
Consider you are big in show buisness, every time you enter stage you are carried by the emotions of thousands of people who want to see YOU.
You create songs or art, and know it means a lot to a lot of people, all that is waaay more than the resulting money
Even if you never become someone anyone listens to if you are very passionate about music by itself and you know it ends here, you can not do it anymore.
I had in my job contact with a lot of people who where not as famous but similar, at the end of there career, and what does hurt them most is that this ends, doing the thing they burn for doing, on top of what everyone who is "normal" experiences with loss of friends and familly.
The things shown represent the memories as much, they are not "worthless" they are a painfull reminder of a times that may not even be happy, but the times there was still something behond the horizon to do and experience.
Life is about what you can do, never about what you have, as long you have food roof and clothing the ammount of money does not make you happy, yes, the ammount of what you can DO makes you happy
Igor Costa
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
Austriacki Malarz
Dziś zraniłem się
Aby zobaczyć czy wciąż czuję
Aby skupić się na bólu
Jedynym prawdziwym uczuciu
Igła drąży wkłucie
Stary, znajomy zapach
Próbuję zapomnieć
Lecz nadal wszystko pamiętam
Czym się stałem?
Drogi przyjacielu
Każdy kogo znam odchodzi
na końcu
I mogłeś mieć wszystko
Moje imperium brudu
Zawiodę cię
Zranię cię
Noszę tę koronę z cierni
Na moim tronie kłamstw
Pełen myśli złych
Których nie odpędzę
Pod śladami czasu
Uczucia odchodzą
Jesteś kimś innym
Ja wciąż tu jestem
Czym się stałem?
Drogi przyjacielu
Każdy kogo znam odchodzi
na końcu
I mogłeś mieć wszystko
Moje imperium brudu
Zawiodę cię
Zranię cię
Gdybym zacząć mógł od nowa
miliony mil stąd
Pozostałbym sobą
Odnalazłbym drogę
Co Cumite Krysy
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
Pavel 0
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
Yair Sasson Art
Closing that piano was like closing his coffin. That is truly one of the most emotional songs ever.
Drew Schellhammer
No shit sherlock Holmes. Everyone knows that. What does that have to do with him closing the piano in the video?
Everilliem
@voteDC god doesn't exist.
Corey Parker
I get chills every time I hear it. I know NIN is the original but it's so fitting for Johnny Cash
salty sister
Wow way to pull on the heart strings
Superspiderbatman
its from nine inch nails
Wyacrr
We are not here to grieve his death but to celebrate his birth
Lawdawg M
My grandfather just died yesterday and this really hits me in the feels. Rest In Peace solider.
Jonathan Walker
Genuine condolences.
Ethan Gatenby
So sorry man