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HURT

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 this crown of thorns
Upon 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

Artist: Johnny Cash
Album: American IV: The Man Comes Around
Song: Hurt
Writer: Trent Reznor

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Is there a more evocative song for our chasms of pain we fill endlessly?

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facethetruth2b's picture

I absoulutly LOVE this song

I absoulutly LOVE this song ........Both Cash and Reznor done it well...


you laugh at me because I am differant, I laugh at you because You are all the same ...(KoRn) J.D......

SSmoothie's picture

Yes its my hold me I'm down almost out song

They are both very good! I grew up listening to Johnny, he's my hero though! I think there's a link to Trent razors version somewhere there a lovely gift! It was beautiful! Ohps no it was I cried for you also incredibly beautiful a must see!


Don't let any one shake your dream stars from your eyes, lest your soul Come away with them! -SS    

"Well, it's love, but not as we know it."

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I sur ewill check out....

I sur ewill check out....


you laugh at me because I am differant, I laugh at you because You are all the same ...(KoRn) J.D......

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love trent

reznor - the performance he did live for cmt was amazing, just reznor and a piano --- awesome!

SSmoothie's picture

I'm too evolved to be jealous

I'm too evolved to be jealous but childish enough to know I should envy! It could only be an CMT special for me. What a blessing!


Don't let any one shake your dream stars from your eyes, lest your soul Come away with them! -SS    

"Well, it's love, but not as we know it."