The song was originally written by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and deals with heroin addiction and depression. Johnny Cash asked to cover it, and Reznor was skeptical, but allowed it. Once he saw the video he praised it's sincerity and said that the song no longer belonged to him (he likened it to losing a girlfriend). Johnny Cash took the song and made it (IMO) about a man reflecting on his life and the mistakes he made. His wife June (who is in the video) passed in May, 3 months after the video was shot. Johnny passed in September of the same year, just 4 months after his wife. The final scene of him putting the cover down on the piano and his trembling hands running over the top feels like a farewell to music, and to life. This will always be my favorite Johnny Cash song.
@@Tampa_DeVaL I disagree. You can respect an artist without knowing their life story. And if they're hearing the music for the first time, there's a good argument for *not* going in with a lot of preconceptions.
This was the proverbial "confession of a dying man". He looked back on his life... saw his blessings... saw the pain HE caused... and felt it in the end, questioning his own motivations and choices. He asks himself... was it all worth it. It was a MASTERPIECE... and I can't listen without tears. Trent may have written it... but he wrote it for Johnny... even if he didn't know it.
The line where he wishes he could go back and "keep" himself...to preserve himself. In other words, to the point in time where he was just about to lose his way and begin causing hurt to himself and others.
No one can really say why of course, but I fully believe he couldn’t see the point of going on after June died. She was his world, his savior after Jesus.
Out of every Johnny Cash song, this is the most vulnerable I’ve ever heard or seen him. He really gave us a gift covering this song ( before he passed away) and Nine Inch Nails did a great service letting Cash cover this song.
His wife June was there while they were filming, but needed to lay down upstairs from her fatigue. At the time she was battling cancer, when she heard him and came down the director just nodded for her to come and listen, and what we see is her honest reaction to Johnny at that moment. He wouldn't live without her, a short time later she passed, and a few months later he followed her. We shall never see another legend like him.
Rick Ruben asked Johnny Cash to listen to this song and at first Johnny didn't like it, said it wasn;t his style. Rick said to ignore the music and just read the lyrics! Told Johnny to do it his own way! Trent was flattered but wasn't sure how Johnny was going to be able to do it. When the track was finished Trent didn't really get what Johnny had done with it... till he saw the video for it! This album went Platinum and won him Best Album of the Year at the CMA Awards 2003! This was Johnny Cash's ":Goodbye" to Everyone!
When you feel the kind of hurt in your life that he sings about in this song its something you want to forget. No drug no nothing will take that away. For those of us that have felt that hurt this song is truly an anthem. It hits too close to home for me and for too many. Still my favorite song of all time now though. This song was written for Johnny Cash and Trent didn't even realize it at the time.
No musician has ever said goodbye to his fans, his friends, his family, his lovers, his haters, his brothers in arms, his enemies, and the world in a more profound and poetic way in the history of mankind.
I saw NiN in concert not long after Cash died, when they did Hurt, they did it the way Johnny did it, and played a video tribute to him on the screen on stage. It was pretty great.
But he's not apologizing. He's owning it all. "If I could start again, a million miles away, I WOULD KEEP MYSELF (I wouldn't change a thing, regardless of the regrets and the pain), I would find a way (to make it all happen again)".
It's not often that the songwriter, who wrote the song for himself, listens to someone covering it and says it's "their song now". But that's what happened here. This ie one of the most powerful performances of any song I've ever heard. And while most videos just accompany a song, I feel like this one enhances it. I was never a Johnny Cash fan. In fact I only know a couple of songs he did. But this is one of my all time favorites by any artist.
RIP Johnny Cash. This song stings me. The night before my husband passed with a massive heart attack he watched this video about 10 times. I'll never forget it. Thank y'all✌💜🎶
RIP Johnny Cash. Such a treasure to us. I imagine he resonated with this song due to his own personal dealings with addiction. He really put his life back together for the people that mattered the most to him, and I applaud him for it and all the warriors who fight back from addiction for their people. I cry so hard every time I hear this.
He always stood up for the little man and the people on the margins, the prisoner, the drunk, the fallen. The only people he consistently hurt were his loved ones and friends, and as you say he found his bottom and committed himself to family and Jesus. (I’m not religious but it did wonders for Johnny). He became the man to his family that he was to the rest of the world and that is the highest achievement. A three hanky tune to be sure.
We are all honored to experience Johnny's music, and this video. He was an all-time great, Rick Rubin produced this song so fabulously, and this video is world-class.
Thank you for reacting to this song. The 2 of you are some of my favorites. I've watched your reaction several times & just now posting 3 yrs after. This was the last song Johnny recorded. It is his goodbye. Johnny Cash is a member of the Hall of Fame in Country Music, Rock & Gospel.
This is another one of those songs. It's a cover but Johnny's performance is so powerful and different from Nine Inch Nails. He really made this song his own.
He knew he was in his last days of his life when he made the album. He chose songs from all genres to cover. I adore NIN’s version, but Johnny definitely made this his own. And the video, right in the feels.
@@choice12ozborne holy wall of text. Never said it was a NIN hit. Was just pointing out it was a cover. They reacted to another cover a few days before posting this. I said Johnny made it his own...
Johnny Cash sang his anti-war song "What is Truth", in the Whitehouse, right to Richard Nixon's face. He forever had 1000% of my respect for that stand up move.
This was about a man at the end of his life reflecting on the totality of that life, all the regrets and the memories. It strikes such a chord because death will visit us all someday and you too will have to reflect. The lesson was don't burn all your bridges, keep yourself rather than giving yourself away for ambition or addiction or whatever..because when death comes everyone has to face that final journey alone.
His wife June in the video died a few months before Johnny after this video. There is a interview of Johnny and Waylon on the David Letterman show and they talk about their rehab and it is funny but helpful. Worth watching.
This song and video always gives me instant goose bumps. It is something truly special when a musician/artist can take someone else's song and make it theirs, turning it into something so much more powerful...kind of like how Patsy Cline made "Crazy" hers. It takes on a whole new meaning, allowing us to see it in a completely different light. Johnny's video for Hurt was so well done - so much emotion. You can really tap into his feelings and all the bittersweet memories he is reminiscing. Seriously one of the best covers and videos.
Johnny Cash, a true American Icon, after the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally, after a lot of people were seen wearing Johnny’s T-Shirts, the Cash family put out a statement saying “our father would never approve or agree with your views”, as a Latino I wear his shirt with pride and play “Jackson” at our “carne asada” get together, Johnny Cash a true American Patriot.
This is one of my go to songs when I need to breakdown and release my pent up emotions. Some folks call it crying but I’m a grown as man and I call it a release.
1st time l saw this video, all l kept saying was WOW. I knew Johnny was telling us all goodbye. Before the end of the year both Johnny & June were no longer with us. So many Legends l grew up listening to in Country Music have left us. And l feel there's no one to fill their shoes. That's a good song to listen to. George Jone, "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes"
This is originally a nine inch nails song. I saw them in concert and they closed the show with this song. Not their version but this one and this was after he passed (he passed months after this song, it was like his goodbye). It was like their tribute to him. A thank you.
The song was a cover of a Six Inch Nails release that he basically made his own. His wife, June (the woman on the stairs) died shortly after the recording was made and I think he died within a year. Very heavy song made even more meaningful by him.
Reznor wrote this song...as yet another of his endless goth-dramas. Jhonny took this and made it about him. An immortal legend facing his own, fragile humanity and mortality. It is incredibly beautiful to see a myth become a man.
This is so awsome today. 15 years later. Johnny Cash nailed this! It was of course, first written by Trent Reznor and performend by NIN. But, damn. Johnny Cash nailed this song. Brings tears to my eyes every time I hear the Johnny Cash version.
He makes this song flow over his life. He lost a beloved older brother in an accident when he was a young boy, and the pain affected his whole family. It seems he thought his father wished it was John instead of the other brother. Johnny died only four months after his wife. They were so in love, no one expected him to survive long without her. This IS his good-bye. (Thank you to Nine Inch Nails for this song. I think John did you proud.)
I was introduced to this song by a friend back in college. Despite the song not being that old, my friend had it on vinyl and would play it all of the time. Unfortunately, my friend was pretty wrapped up in drugs, and has since past away as a result of drugs. My friend was a great and emotional dude, outside of his drug issues. Its hard to listen to this song knowing that this was his favorite song, likely due to the words of the song relating directly to my buddy's pain/conflict. Despite being able to rarely making it through this song without shedding a tear or two, it has also become one of my favorites. I have also never understood those who like emotional songs such as this, but ive quickly learned to understand why.
He was a hell of a man and he had and incredibly tough childhood! The movie "walk the line" with juaquin phoenix is a story of his life, definitely worth a watch!!
This is a cover song, meaning he sang someone else’s song that was written and performed by Nine Inch Nails. After they heard him do this song they said it was his song and not theirs anymore. It was his goodbye song, his own daughter said to him, “it’s like your saying goodbye”. He said “I am”. His wife was shown in the video died after this video was made and about three months later he died. Johnny was saying in this song he lost so many people that have gone before him, he has remorse for the things he did and pretty much the time he wasted not being a better human. Watch it again. I cry every time I see this video knowing what he’s been through and his regrets making this was his final goodbye.
When you get to a certain age, you think of the people you’ve hurt. Usually inadvertently. Makes you think you’ll hurt everybody, but if you have a good heart, you won’t.
This song was a cover song and was originally a Nine Inch Nails song. He doesn't mean that none of his stuff will replace him. He is saying that his stuff is dirt and the real empire and riches in his life was his family and the people who loved him. This was the last song he did before he past away in the early 2000's.
..."Class of 76"...This song was written and sung by a troubled introverted Rock n Roll singer talking about addiction and depression....it was also covered by Elvis BUT...Johnny made it his forever as a sorrowful broken hearted man that lost his wife...he sang this just 2 months after his wife died and he died a couple of months later...
His love for June and hers for him and the fact they are gone makes this hurt . He was one of the greatest humans . Hank JR said when he fell off the mountain out in Montana when he woke up in the hospital Johnny and June were at his side .
Thanks for honoring this great man and great song. And in the most respectful way to you both, I'd like to say that Asia is one of the most beautiful woman I have ever seen.
Even though this song was written by Trent Reznor about his own life, it was Johnny Cash's manager who was trying to talk Johnny into recording it but Johnny was, reportedly, originally sceptical about recording a cover of a grunge rock song. His manager prevailed after Johnny realize the song almost mirrored his life too.
The Johnny Cash video for the single was recorded in February of 2003. June Carter Cash, his 2nd wife is, the woman on stairs; also a singer who toured with him and sang with him on several songs and is the person played by Reese Witherspoon alongside Joaquin Phoenix, in the biopic film of Cash and Carter, Walk the line. She had come over to check on her husband that day as his health was not so good. It was her that Cash attributed to rescuing him from his drug and Alcohol addiction when she married him. June Carter Cash passed away a few months after the video recording in May of 2003 and a bereaved Johnny Cash followed her a few months later in the September. The song is by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and is about his battle with addiction and depression. Cash also an addict and alcoholic for much of his early life spending time in Jail on half a dozen occasions for possession. The song encompasses the way both musicians life threads are woven together and entangled across the decades between them, so much so that Trent when he saw the video said it was like loosing his Girlfriend as the song had become Johnny's. Johnny was a campaigner for prison reform and the rights of Native Americans and much of his material reflected his own passions and darker past. Johnny Cash's star declined in the 80s and the Museum to his life with the smashed Gold Disk on the Floor, used as one of the backdrops to the video, ended up being shuttered. In the 1990s Rick Rubin of American Recordings more of a Rap, Punk and Metal, producer sought out Cash to record on their label, and offered Cash complete artistic freedom. With them his career revived and he brought out a his most critically acclaimed albums, the America series, bringing Cash to a new younger audience starring on The Simpsons and Headlining at Glastonbury in 1994. The 4th and penultimate album of the America series from which this is one of several Hit Singles: American IV: The Man Comes Around, was released in November of 2002 and he was still working on his final Album that was released posthumously.
The video hits different. Watching different parts of his life. Exploring his childhood home. As he sits in the shut down Johnny Cash Museum. And his wife, June, watching his as he sings about how he's hurting how he built this empire of dirt. And knowing that a short few months after she died, he died. This song was released in 2001, I think, roughly two years before he died. He died six months after I was born. I truly regret never being able to see a legend. I'm glad for modern recording equipment that let's me live his songs.
He had done a lot of drugs and alcohol, and hurt people, including his wife, (who stood by his side, and was famous in her own right) along his life. He wasn't all bad, but this song was a homage to people in his life dying, or abandoning him, his personal demons, and ultimately his own demise.
This was Johnny Cash last video and last song. When his daughter heard his take on this song she told him that it sounded like he was saying goodbye, he said it was his farewell song. He died shortly after this song came out.
Had you known a bit more of his history I think you probably would have been in tears if you listen to the song. He was a poor southern sharecropper's son. Some of those clips were of him going back to that 1 bedroom house his family lived in. Johnny Cash never grew out of being that poor southern sharecropper's son psyche.
Although Johnny did not write this it's feels so personal to him. When we get old if we are honest and look back on our lives there will be regret and pain we may have caused another, usually the ones we love the most. I feel he's telling of his regrets in his life. But also showing his great faith in God. Everyone goes away in the end I believe is the death of friends and family. The end when he closes the piano is like closing a casket. Very deep song and I hope the youth that see it take note on how fast life goes each year is shorter.than the last.
Trent (9 inch nails) wrote the original. It took one playthrough from cash with his version, for Trent to instantly sign rights and full ownership to Johnny. "I wrote a song that turned out to be for Johnny Cash".
God bless Rick Rubin for getting this legend into a studio and just having him play whatever they wanted to cover. His voice wavers but every bit of that baritone still just rings like a deep bell in your head. So beautiful; the (lack of) production on his American album series is incredible and intimate.
The flaws of age in Johnny's voice enhance the song. It adds to the pain, to the sense of having lived and gained the wisdom through pain to sing these words with truth.
Trent Reznor wrote the song.Even hearing it then, would be heavy to a heart. But for Johnny loosing everything around him after June passed, heart breaking. It was written by Trent but meant to be sung by Johnny.
This was about his past addiction battles n this cover was amazing n he was such a legend that he did this song as a goodbye because he died not long after he did this
When the writer, performer and owner of the song, says it's no longer his... the cover is better than the original. Seen and heard both. Trent was not wrong. Kudos.
Raw emotions. In this song,,only when you get older can you relate to this song. As you get older friends die all your family is gone. And the world has left you behind. Just memories. Of things. Long gone,,,
Did you catch the quick cuts in the video of Jesus being nailed to the cross? Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails wrote this in 1994. It was the last song Johnny recorded, about two months before he passed. When Trent heard it he said "it's Johnny's song now". Johnny left this earth in September 2003 at age 71
Johnny recorded this video in February 2003. 1st, his wife, June Carter Cash shown here died few months later in May and Johnny died in September 2003.
His daughter was in the studio when he recorded this and said she knew he was saying goodbye. Just like him closing the hood of his piano like saying farewell to am old friend he knew he'd never see again
Johnny Cash was one of the greatest vocalist of all time his love of God the his family I know people who knew him I never personally got to meet him but he was a man of faith my dad knew Johnny Cash used to hang out with them back in the day whenever he was all drugged out
The sad thing is that he passed away not to long after covering this song by Nine Inch Nails. R.I.P Johnny Cash. You're truly missed and there will never be an artist like him.
I think it was how he was looking back, knowing he was dying, his wrongful priorities. He had had drug addiction issues, like Reznor, the songs composer,though I believe his drug of choice was amphetamines. So powerful, because he knew death was very near; it was his last statement to the world musically.
This has always been a real tough one to listen to. It truly makes one reflect on their mortality and what they've done, or haven't, with the time they've been given. Rest peacefully, the Man in Black.
Cash poured all the pain and regret of his life into this song. When Trent Reznor wrote it, it was about drug addiction. When Cash sings it, it's about life.
The song was originally written by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and deals with heroin addiction and depression. Johnny Cash asked to cover it, and Reznor was skeptical, but allowed it. Once he saw the video he praised it's sincerity and said that the song no longer belonged to him (he likened it to losing a girlfriend). Johnny Cash took the song and made it (IMO) about a man reflecting on his life and the mistakes he made. His wife June (who is in the video) passed in May, 3 months after the video was shot. Johnny passed in September of the same year, just 4 months after his wife. The final scene of him putting the cover down on the piano and his trembling hands running over the top feels like a farewell to music, and to life. This will always be my favorite Johnny Cash song.
When his daughter heard it she said it sounds like you're saying goodbye. He replied, "I am".
@@stevehatcher7700 I forgot that story...good one
@@Tampa_DeVaL I disagree. You can respect an artist without knowing their life story. And if they're hearing the music for the first time, there's a good argument for *not* going in with a lot of preconceptions.
@@Tampa_DeVaL wouldn't be the first time (or the last)
NIN's version was also a cover. This was written in 1954 and performed by Roy Hamilton.
When Johnny Cash's daughter heard it, she said "it sounds like you're saying goodbye", he replied "I am"
Thar was the last time he opened a piano...
This was the proverbial "confession of a dying man". He looked back on his life... saw his blessings... saw the pain HE caused... and felt it in the end, questioning his own motivations and choices. He asks himself... was it all worth it. It was a MASTERPIECE... and I can't listen without tears. Trent may have written it... but he wrote it for Johnny... even if he didn't know it.
What a great Observation. I couldn’t agree more.
Well said, dude.
Exactly.
Johnny Cash made 8 albums of covers all exactly the same with Rick Rubin
The line where he wishes he could go back and "keep" himself...to preserve himself. In other words, to the point in time where he was just about to lose his way and begin causing hurt to himself and others.
This is a tough one to listen to. You can hear the pain in his voice and he was gone shortly after😪. R.I.P. ✌LEGEND
No one can really say why of course, but I fully believe he couldn’t see the point of going on after June died. She was his world, his savior after Jesus.
@@loadedorygun a broken heart has killed plenty man
This was Johnny's goodbye song as he knew he did not have much time left to live, making the closing of the piano at the end truly symbolic.
I'm a grown-ass man, but I silently weep every damn time.... loved the original, but Mr. Cash made it better. ❤️Love y'all 🦾
If people don't cry watching this, I question if they're even human
Out of every Johnny Cash song, this is the most vulnerable I’ve ever heard or seen him. He really gave us a gift covering this song ( before he passed away) and Nine Inch Nails did a great service letting Cash cover this song.
His wife June was there while they were filming, but needed to lay down upstairs from her fatigue. At the time she was battling cancer, when she heard him and came down the director just nodded for her to come and listen, and what we see is her honest reaction to Johnny at that moment. He wouldn't live without her, a short time later she passed, and a few months later he followed her. We shall never see another legend like him.
This song
Omg, He died a few months after this performance.
Its like He's saying goodbye here
Thank you
yeah almost 20 year ago now.. 03
One of kids, I believe his daughter, Roseanne Carter Cash asked her dad, "are you saying goodbye?". Johnny replied back, "Yes!"
He was, he knew his time was up. Good Christian man
@@sady954 he died of broken heart syndrome, he really loved her
Also he died just a few months after his wife June Carter Cash.
Rick Ruben asked Johnny Cash to listen to this song and at first Johnny didn't like it, said it wasn;t his style. Rick said to ignore the music and just read the lyrics! Told Johnny to do it his own way! Trent was flattered but wasn't sure how Johnny was going to be able to do it. When the track was finished Trent didn't really get what Johnny had done with it... till he saw the video for it! This album went Platinum and won him Best Album of the Year at the CMA Awards 2003! This was Johnny Cash's ":Goodbye" to Everyone!
The core purpose of art is to evoke emotion. And this song is art of the highest form.
Thumbs up with a tear in my eye and a lump in my throat.
When you feel the kind of hurt in your life that he sings about in this song its something you want to forget. No drug no nothing will take that away. For those of us that have felt that hurt this song is truly an anthem. It hits too close to home for me and for too many. Still my favorite song of all time now though. This song was written for Johnny Cash and Trent didn't even realize it at the time.
This song makes me cry EVERY TIME!! 😭 By far one of my favorites. ❤️
Same
No musician has ever said goodbye to his fans, his friends, his family, his lovers, his haters, his brothers in arms, his enemies, and the world in a more profound and poetic way in the history of mankind.
Johnny did a great cover of this NINE INCH NAILS song. Completely from the heart about his past addiction.
I dont think anyone really cares who done it first, 2 completely different songs tbh 2 completely different vibes
I saw NiN in concert not long after Cash died, when they did Hurt, they did it the way Johnny did it, and played a video tribute to him on the screen on stage. It was pretty great.
I heard NIN said it was Jonnys song now. Never confirmed that but what a honor to have him adopt your masterpiece.
@Bobby Ledford Jr
I agree. Hate when people compare the two renditions.
One seems to come across more as later day and the other as reflections.
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@@AlexSolomon91 Trent Reznor said this is Johnnys song now. Good enough? It was a song about addiction and Cash fought that, but this is his farewell.
Its not about missing him, when he is gone, its about him apologizing for past mistakes and saying goodbye.
But he's not apologizing. He's owning it all. "If I could start again, a million miles away, I WOULD KEEP MYSELF (I wouldn't change a thing, regardless of the regrets and the pain), I would find a way (to make it all happen again)".
Steve Hatcher i always thought of that line as in i would keep myself like before he started taking drugs.
@@Whitewolf1827 keeping to the original NIN version you may be correct but I think Johnny turned the meaning around. It's my interpretation, at least
It's not often that the songwriter, who wrote the song for himself, listens to someone covering it and says it's "their song now". But that's what happened here. This ie one of the most powerful performances of any song I've ever heard. And while most videos just accompany a song, I feel like this one enhances it. I was never a Johnny Cash fan. In fact I only know a couple of songs he did. But this is one of my all time favorites by any artist.
RIP Johnny Cash. This song stings me. The night before my husband passed with a massive heart attack he watched this video about 10 times. I'll never forget it. Thank y'all✌💜🎶
RIP Johnny Cash. Such a treasure to us.
I imagine he resonated with this song due to his own personal dealings with addiction.
He really put his life back together for the people that mattered the most to him, and I applaud him for it and all the warriors who fight back from addiction for their people.
I cry so hard every time I hear this.
He always stood up for the little man and the people on the margins, the prisoner, the drunk, the fallen. The only people he consistently hurt were his loved ones and friends, and as you say he found his bottom and committed himself to family and Jesus. (I’m not religious but it did wonders for Johnny). He became the man to his family that he was to the rest of the world and that is the highest achievement. A three hanky tune to be sure.
We are all honored to experience Johnny's music, and this video. He was an all-time great, Rick Rubin produced this song so fabulously, and this video is world-class.
Thank you for reacting to this song. The 2 of you are some of my favorites. I've watched your reaction several times & just now posting 3 yrs after. This was the last song Johnny recorded. It is his goodbye. Johnny Cash is a member of the Hall of Fame in Country Music, Rock & Gospel.
This is another one of those songs. It's a cover but Johnny's performance is so powerful and different from Nine Inch Nails. He really made this song his own.
He knew he was in his last days of his life when he made the album. He chose songs from all genres to cover.
I adore NIN’s version, but Johnny definitely made this his own. And the video, right in the feels.
@@choice12ozborne holy wall of text. Never said it was a NIN hit. Was just pointing out it was a cover. They reacted to another cover a few days before posting this. I said Johnny made it his own...
I couldn’t have said it better myself Yosemite
@@a.darleneheisserer1028 Rick Rubin bought all the songs to Cash
Nine inch cash
Last video he very made. Passed away a few months after this. RIP Johnny. You’re a legend and will live on forever thru your music
Johnny Cash sang his anti-war song "What is Truth", in the Whitehouse, right to Richard Nixon's face. He forever had 1000% of my respect for that stand up move.
This was about a man at the end of his life reflecting on the totality of that life, all the regrets and the memories. It strikes such a chord because death will visit us all someday and you too will have to reflect. The lesson was don't burn all your bridges, keep yourself rather than giving yourself away for ambition or addiction or whatever..because when death comes everyone has to face that final journey alone.
This was the last song he recorded before his death . . . the only thing to regret in the end is having lost yourself along the way. Great reaction!
This song sung by Cash gets me every damn time. In my feels with this one. ❤️♥️Hope you guys are well.
His wife June in the video died a few months before Johnny after this video. There is a interview of Johnny and Waylon on the David Letterman show and they talk about their rehab and it is funny but helpful. Worth watching.
This song and video always gives me instant goose bumps. It is something truly special when a musician/artist can take someone else's song and make it theirs, turning it into something so much more powerful...kind of like how Patsy Cline made "Crazy" hers. It takes on a whole new meaning, allowing us to see it in a completely different light. Johnny's video for Hurt was so well done - so much emotion. You can really tap into his feelings and all the bittersweet memories he is reminiscing. Seriously one of the best covers and videos.
How can anyone not be moved? The sound of a full life lived in that voice.
Johnny Cash, a true American Icon, after the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally, after a lot of people were seen wearing Johnny’s T-Shirts, the Cash family put out a statement saying “our father would never approve or agree with your views”, as a Latino I wear his shirt with pride and play “Jackson” at our “carne asada” get together, Johnny Cash a true American Patriot.
This is one of my go to songs when I need to breakdown and release my pent up emotions. Some folks call it crying but I’m a grown as man and I call it a release.
1st time l saw this video, all l kept saying was WOW. I knew Johnny was telling us all goodbye. Before the end of the year both Johnny & June were no longer with us. So many Legends l grew up listening to in Country Music have left us. And l feel there's no one to fill their shoes. That's a good song to listen to. George Jone, "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes"
This is originally a nine inch nails song. I saw them in concert and they closed the show with this song. Not their version but this one and this was after he passed (he passed months after this song, it was like his goodbye). It was like their tribute to him. A thank you.
The song was a cover of a Six Inch Nails release that he basically made his own. His wife, June (the woman on the stairs) died shortly after the recording was made and I think he died within a year. Very heavy song made even more meaningful by him.
Lol you mean Nine Inch Nails. Least you weren’t like Courtney Love and said three inches.
@@SiriusV21 Oops, had a senior moment I guess. Does that qualify me for public office?
This resonates with Everyone!
Reznor wrote this song...as yet another of his endless goth-dramas. Jhonny took this and made it about him. An immortal legend facing his own, fragile humanity and mortality. It is incredibly beautiful to see a myth become a man.
This is so awsome today. 15 years later. Johnny Cash nailed this! It was of course, first written by Trent Reznor and performend by NIN. But, damn. Johnny Cash nailed this song. Brings tears to my eyes every time I hear the Johnny Cash version.
This Is How A Legend Says Goodbye..R.I.P. Johnny..Thanks For All You Gave Us..Gone But Definitely Not Forgotten. 🙏❤
He makes this song flow over his life. He lost a beloved older brother in an accident when he was a young boy, and the pain affected his whole family. It seems he thought his father wished it was John instead of the other brother. Johnny died only four months after his wife. They were so in love, no one expected him to survive long without her. This IS his good-bye. (Thank you to Nine Inch Nails for this song. I think John did you proud.)
I was introduced to this song by a friend back in college. Despite the song not being that old, my friend had it on vinyl and would play it all of the time. Unfortunately, my friend was pretty wrapped up in drugs, and has since past away as a result of drugs. My friend was a great and emotional dude, outside of his drug issues. Its hard to listen to this song knowing that this was his favorite song, likely due to the words of the song relating directly to my buddy's pain/conflict. Despite being able to rarely making it through this song without shedding a tear or two, it has also become one of my favorites. I have also never understood those who like emotional songs such as this, but ive quickly learned to understand why.
He was a hell of a man and he had and incredibly tough childhood! The movie "walk the line" with juaquin phoenix is a story of his life, definitely worth a watch!!
This is a cover song, meaning he sang someone else’s song that was written and performed by Nine Inch Nails. After they heard him do this song they said it was his song and not theirs anymore. It was his goodbye song, his own daughter said to him, “it’s like your saying goodbye”. He said “I am”.
His wife was shown in the video died after this video was made and about three months later he died.
Johnny was saying in this song he lost so many people that have gone before him, he has remorse for the things he did and pretty much the time he wasted not being a better human. Watch it again. I cry every time I see this video knowing what he’s been through and his regrets making this was his final goodbye.
NIN is just Trent reznor he only has a band for live shows
When you get to a certain age, you think of the people you’ve hurt. Usually inadvertently. Makes you think you’ll hurt everybody, but if you have a good heart, you won’t.
This is originally a Nine Inch Nails song. After the lead singer of Nine Inch Nails hurt Johnny Cash‘s version, he said this is now a Johnny Cash song
Sort of, not quite.
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If this doesn't break your heart, you might not have one. ❤
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This song was a cover song and was originally a Nine Inch Nails song. He doesn't mean that none of his stuff will replace him. He is saying that his stuff is dirt and the real empire and riches in his life was his family and the people who loved him. This was the last song he did before he past away in the early 2000's.
..."Class of 76"...This song was written and sung by a troubled introverted Rock n Roll singer talking about addiction and depression....it was also covered by Elvis BUT...Johnny made it his forever as a sorrowful broken hearted man that lost his wife...he sang this just 2 months after his wife died and he died a couple of months later...
His love for June and hers for him and the fact they are gone makes this hurt . He was one of the greatest humans . Hank JR said when he fell off the mountain out in Montana when he woke up in the hospital Johnny and June were at his side .
Thanks for honoring this great man and great song. And in the most respectful way to you both, I'd like to say that Asia is one of the most beautiful woman I have ever seen.
Even though this song was written by Trent Reznor about his own life, it was Johnny Cash's manager who was trying to talk Johnny into recording it but Johnny was, reportedly, originally sceptical about recording a cover of a grunge rock song. His manager prevailed after Johnny realize the song almost mirrored his life too.
If I didn't know better,I would swear it's his song. His emotion while singing is so pure and beautiful
A man of beauty pouring out his soul. Very deep!
The Johnny Cash video for the single was recorded in February of 2003. June Carter Cash, his 2nd wife is, the woman on stairs; also a singer who toured with him and sang with him on several songs and is the person played by Reese Witherspoon alongside Joaquin Phoenix, in the biopic film of Cash and Carter, Walk the line. She had come over to check on her husband that day as his health was not so good. It was her that Cash attributed to rescuing him from his drug and Alcohol addiction when she married him. June Carter Cash passed away a few months after the video recording in May of 2003 and a bereaved Johnny Cash followed her a few months later in the September.
The song is by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and is about his battle with addiction and depression. Cash also an addict and alcoholic for much of his early life spending time in Jail on half a dozen occasions for possession. The song encompasses the way both musicians life threads are woven together and entangled across the decades between them, so much so that Trent when he saw the video said it was like loosing his Girlfriend as the song had become Johnny's.
Johnny was a campaigner for prison reform and the rights of Native Americans and much of his material reflected his own passions and darker past. Johnny Cash's star declined in the 80s and the Museum to his life with the smashed Gold Disk on the Floor, used as one of the backdrops to the video, ended up being shuttered.
In the 1990s Rick Rubin of American Recordings more of a Rap, Punk and Metal, producer sought out Cash to record on their label, and offered Cash complete artistic freedom. With them his career revived and he brought out a his most critically acclaimed albums, the America series, bringing Cash to a new younger audience starring on The Simpsons and Headlining at Glastonbury in 1994. The 4th and penultimate album of the America series from which this is one of several Hit Singles: American IV: The Man Comes Around, was released in November of 2002 and he was still working on his final Album that was released posthumously.
he did this cover before he passed away, its almost like he is saying goodbye
Really? I thought he did it after he passed away. :-)
Since he told his daughter he was saying goodbye... thats kinda the point. Its his eulogy
He was.... he was exactly saying goodbye. This song, and his last song "Like a 309", tells you his state of mind the final year before his passing.
The video hits different. Watching different parts of his life. Exploring his childhood home. As he sits in the shut down Johnny Cash Museum. And his wife, June, watching his as he sings about how he's hurting how he built this empire of dirt. And knowing that a short few months after she died, he died. This song was released in 2001, I think, roughly two years before he died. He died six months after I was born. I truly regret never being able to see a legend. I'm glad for modern recording equipment that let's me live his songs.
My daughter played this in the bar she works at and every one in the bar started crying--most of them old men, drinking in the middle of the day
He had done a lot of drugs and alcohol, and hurt people, including his wife, (who stood by his side, and was famous in her own right) along his life. He wasn't all bad, but this song was a homage to people in his life dying, or abandoning him, his personal demons, and ultimately his own demise.
The song was written by TREN REZNOR of NINE INCH NAILS and Johnny Cash reimagined it to fit his life by rearranging it to suit him.
This was Johnny Cash last video and last song. When his daughter heard his take on this song she told him that it sounded like he was saying goodbye, he said it was his farewell song. He died shortly after this song came out.
Had you known a bit more of his history I think you probably would have been in tears if you listen to the song. He was a poor southern sharecropper's son. Some of those clips were of him going back to that 1 bedroom house his family lived in. Johnny Cash never grew out of being that poor southern sharecropper's son psyche.
His daughter heard this song she said it’s like you are saying goodbye, and he said I am. He died a few months later
Although Johnny did not write this it's feels so personal to him. When we get old if we are honest and look back on our lives there will be regret and pain we may have caused another, usually the ones we love the most. I feel he's telling of his regrets in his life. But also showing his great faith in God. Everyone goes away in the end I believe is the death of friends and family. The end when he closes the piano is like closing a casket. Very deep song and I hope the youth that see it take note on how fast life goes each year is shorter.than the last.
So much heart and soul in this performance
My favorite by him. Fantastic song and lyrics, his voice.. Powerful.
Reflections on a life that was less than perfect. BRILLIANT!
Right before he died. RIP CASH
Trent (9 inch nails) wrote the original. It took one playthrough from cash with his version, for Trent to instantly sign rights and full ownership to Johnny. "I wrote a song that turned out to be for Johnny Cash".
God bless Rick Rubin for getting this legend into a studio and just having him play whatever they wanted to cover. His voice wavers but every bit of that baritone still just rings like a deep bell in your head. So beautiful; the (lack of) production on his American album series is incredible and intimate.
The flaws of age in Johnny's voice enhance the song. It adds to the pain, to the sense of having lived and gained the wisdom through pain to sing these words with truth.
@@danieldickson8591 no doubt.
He had alot of regrets and when you get older they can haunt you......him closing the piano is quite the finishing touch
Johnny made this his own, such a powerful song 💗 💫
Trent Reznor wrote the song.Even hearing it then, would be heavy to a heart. But for Johnny loosing everything around him after June passed, heart breaking. It was written by Trent but meant to be sung by Johnny.
Johnny was a troubled rebel soul...he suffered addiction and even jail time. He covered this classic 9 inch nails song and did it such great justice.
He never served jail time, other than drunk tank nights. No prison. 🙄
No he never did jail time if your talking about his song he sang for peps in prison it wasn't really about him
This song always makes me cry and knowing that it was his last song brings me to tears.
man, i have watched this over a 100 times easy, and I still get chills
This was about his past addiction battles n this cover was amazing n he was such a legend that he did this song as a goodbye because he died not long after he did this
There are few songs that get me in my feelings but this one is so deep and his voice is perfect for this song.
This video always brings tears to my eyes ... this was his last recording , a nine inch nails song keeping him relevant right to his end .
When the writer, performer and owner of the song, says it's no longer his... the cover is better than the original. Seen and heard both. Trent was not wrong. Kudos.
Raw emotions. In this song,,only when you get older can you relate to this song. As you get older friends die all your family is gone. And the world has left you behind. Just memories. Of things. Long gone,,,
Trent may have wrote the song about himself. But Johny’s aged voice added so much more meaning and feeling.
Trent Resnor from Nine Inch Nails actually said, this is Johnny's song although he wrote it.
Trent said i was born to write this song Johnny was born to sing it..
I had mad respect for Trent after this song from Johnny.
Johnny makes me cry every single time 🥲
It's a cover that the original artist initially wasn't happy about, but when he saw the video/heard the song...he said WOW he made that his song...
He died a mere 4 months after the love of his life June Carter Cash. May they rest in peace.
Did you catch the quick cuts in the video of Jesus being nailed to the
cross? Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails wrote this in 1994. It was the
last song Johnny recorded, about two months before he passed. When Trent
heard it he said "it's Johnny's song now". Johnny left this earth in September 2003 at age 71
What a great interpretation! You can't listen to this song and not be moved.
He literally made this video on his death bed ..the closet thing you will ever see of a man singing at his own funeral.
Johnny recorded this video in February 2003. 1st, his wife, June Carter Cash shown here died few months later in May and Johnny died in September 2003.
Bono said that Trent Reznor was born to write this song while Johnny Cash was born to sing it.
This song always makes me cry. It’s beautiful and sad and one of a kind
His daughter was in the studio when he recorded this and said she knew he was saying goodbye. Just like him closing the hood of his piano like saying farewell to am old friend he knew he'd never see again
Johnny Cash was one of the greatest vocalist of all time his love of God the his family I know people who knew him I never personally got to meet him but he was a man of faith my dad knew Johnny Cash used to hang out with them back in the day whenever he was all drugged out
The sad thing is that he passed away not to long after covering this song by Nine Inch Nails. R.I.P Johnny Cash. You're truly missed and there will never be an artist like him.
I think it was how he was looking back, knowing he was dying, his wrongful priorities. He had had drug addiction issues, like Reznor, the songs composer,though I believe his drug of choice was amphetamines.
So powerful, because he knew death was very near; it was his last statement to the world musically.
Johnny loved loved loved his wife June... I used to watch their variety show back in the 70s
He wrote and recorded this song 2 weeks after his wife passed away.
This has always been a real tough one to listen to. It truly makes one reflect on their mortality and what they've done, or haven't, with the time they've been given. Rest peacefully, the Man in Black.
Cash poured all the pain and regret of his life into this song. When Trent Reznor wrote it, it was about drug addiction. When Cash sings it, it's about life.
This is such a human reflection of what so many people feel, which is sad such a reflection of life for so many.