NIN's "Hurt"......the best video ever........Johnny Cash......~SpaceCase

How about that...Nine Inch Nails and Johnny Cash in the same heading, who'd of thunk it?! I don't care if you absolutely LOATHE COUNTRY, you HAVE TO see this music video. Haunting best describe's Cash's rendition of NIN's song Hurt. Such a shaking soul echoes in his voice as he pangs a constant beat with a few piano keys, such starling, sombering images continually flash between clips of him sitting all alone with his piano. His wife, June Carter Cash makes a cameo along with shots of his museum.

"There has never been a video like it, and there may never be one again." I'm not sure who said this, but it was a fellow musician in the industry. He, along with NIN's Trent Rezner (ms?) and others all shared their admiration for the video last night at the CMT Flameworthy Video Awards. Johnny Cash was given an award for the video, his wife accepted it on his behalf.

I kinda wish that I'd remembered to do this post when I first saw the video, because now it's all the rage. The thing that is most riveting to me is that he chose to do this song, dare I say, close to the end. You just have to see it. If you aren't moved by it, please, come back here and tell me why!

>SpaceCase<







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

you could have it all

my empire of dirt

I will let you down

I will make you hurt

I wear my crown of thorns

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

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