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What you're hearing is a man giving the eulogy to his own funeral.
Never fails to bring tears to my eyes.
Like down in a hole
That's not how I hear it actually because the words of the song don't really say that to me, and I'm almost certain that's not what Trent Reznor wrote the lyrics to imply. That said, music is how we interpret it and there is something haunting about these honest images of Johnny right at the end of his life, and the way he sings the song does have sort of a "last gasp" feel.
@@garysimonson1135 I meant Johnny's interpretation. Trent's original was a young man angry with the world.
Johnny's is an old man near the end of his life looking back on his past regrets, and saying "I'm sorry" to all the people he's hurt over the years.
Especially at the end of the video when he closes the piano and brushes the top of it. It always signifies a final goodbye, at least from how I see it. It's somber but beautiful in a sense.
@@garysimonson1135 Agree. But to me Reznor wrote it, Cash lived it. It's Johnny's song now.
You guys missed the VERY end where Johnny closes the piano and with a sense of finality and regret brushes his hands across the cover almost as a symbolism of: "Now I'm done.".
Came here to comment the same thing
I've heard (can't verify) that he never opened the piano again.
That’s how I interpreted that too. RIP Johnny and June
and until i saw your comment, i intended to add the same.
@@joannajohnson8210 I had like wise heard that
I got up one morning for work and went into the living room to get dressed so as to not wake my wife. I turned on the TV to VH1 to watch some videos as I was getting ready and this was just coming on. I had not seen Cash in years and the way he had aged struck me. Then the song started and I just sat there all the way through it, mesmerized. When it was over I just kept sitting there for a minute, kind of stunned. Now, I'm much older. My wife has passed on and I'm still here and I feel this song even more. The song writer did an amazing job but Cash took it to another level. June, his wife, is the woman standing on the stairs looking at him with concern. That's real, the guy shooting the video caught that and included it. She actually died shortly after this was filmed, before Cash did. God bless the Man in Black.
Amen. You nailed it.
Jesus man, such a deep comment. Almost bringing tears to my eyes. Sorry about your wife man. I’m still young and have been married for 10 years..but as I get older, I think about that part of my life a lot more . I wish you the best and good health friend. Take care.
It would've behooved the OBs to have commented on this.
Disappointing they haven't really. Reading it gave me chills as when hearing Cash's version of Hurt for the first time, as described above.
Stay strong and with us for some time mate.
Everytime I see this video,I get emotional. I'm doing research to see if there is a "dark key" in the cords. A sound that us humans react to emotions. This song really affects the people that listen to it.
@@davidobry3806 This version of this song hits me differently than any other. I can't explain it.
Trent Reznor lead singer of Nine Inch Nails once said Cash did the song so well that it wasn’t his (Trent Reznor) song anymore
I love both versions. Even though they have mostly the same lyrics, both Johnny and Trent are telling totally different stories. And you can tell. Johnny's story is about a man at the end of his life looking back at pain, regrets, and the people he loved. Trent's story is about the descent into drug addiction and depression. They're the same song, but they're totally not.
I really respected Trent for being able to say that about Johnny Cash's cover. You can tell that from the lyrics that Hurt must have been a very personal song for Trent. It could not have been easy for him to step back and handle it so gracefully.
It is also crazy how different the songs are and the emotions they give the listener even though they have the same lyrics. Truly a masterpiece of song lyrics.
The two versions are like bookends on life and the suffering that is life. Trent looks forward and Johnny looks backward. Both see the abyss.
@@kitsune303 Wow! Interesting insight. " Battle not with monsters, lest you become a monster...and when you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you " -- paraphrasing Friedrich Nietzsche. They were looking towards the void from different perspectives, it's a dark sight. Johnny Cash was dying... that's why he wanted to record that song. Trent Reznor is still alive, praise god...this song is a masterpiece and should never be sung lightly
He only said that after watching the video. When he first heard the song and only the song he didn't it was anything special. Personally I like the original more.
You didn't let the video finish. At the end, Johnny closes the piano, like he is saying g\goodbye to it.
That was the most poignant part of the video;(
And that's the part that finally gets me, every time.
Few let it play out all the way. Everyone’s in such a damn rush these days.
like closing a coffin and saying here I go...damn, that gets me, every time I see it.
@@airmobiledivision7759 Thanks for your service.
Yes the end was something that sends a message.
Trent Reznor says about the Cash version of Hurt: "I'd been friends with Rick Rubin for several years. He called me to ask how I'd feel if Johnny Cash covered Hurt. I said I'd be very flattered but was given no indication it would actually be recorded. The idea sounded a bit gimmicky. Two weeks went by. Then I got a CD in the post. I listened to it and it was very strange. It was this other person inhabiting my most personal song. I'd known where I was when I wrote it. I know what I was thinking about. I know how I felt. Hearing it was like someone kissing your girlfriend. It felt invasive". Johnny played this song over 100 times before he recorded it. He called it "The best anti-drug song I ever heard." The song was released as a single in 2003. "One Hour Photo" director Mark Romanek said: “I begged Rick Rubin to let me shoot something to that track” being instantly enamored of the rendition, he offered to shoot the video for free. Universal eventually agreed to the music video, but with 71-year-old Cash’s health declining and being unwilling to stay long in the cold Tennessee weather as he was going on holiday to his ranch in Jamaica that coming Saturday, Romanek had only days to make the video and after scouting in Nashville, he decided upon Cash’s home and museum in Hendersonville, Tennessee, The House of Cash. "Arriving on Friday with no idea of what I was going to make" Romanek said. "I looked around the house and made a few suggestions of where we might film Johnny performing. I was making it up off the top of my head. Then I went to the House of Cash Museum and found it in total disrepair. There was no time to clean it up so I decided that I'd just film it, and Johnny, exactly as they were. He was no longer in his prime - he was fading and that was what I wanted to show. The place was in such a state of dereliction. That’s when I got the idea that maybe we could be extremely candid about the state of Johnny’s health - as candid as Johnny has always been in his songs. While I was filming the opening segment of Johnny playing guitar in his living room, his wife, June, came down the stairs and watched. The look on her face was so complex: full of love and pride and concern for her husband. So I asked her if I could film her too and she agreed. But the most important element was when we discovered a film archive in the museum. When we looked back at the rushes we'd filmed at the house we thought they were good but not great. But once we dropped in the archive footage of Johnny we realized that was the soul of the video. The whole thing was so spontaneous. It's made me realize that sometimes you can be too prepared and that there's some value to urgency." The music video speaks about the transience of life, the gracelessness of death, the Ozymandian crumbling of an oeuvre and the decline of a genre, an era and an attitude. The ‘closed to public’ sign on the museum. The cracked platinum records. The caviar and lobster banquet with no diners. The clips from earlier in Johnny’s career. His wife June looking on. The closed piano lid. The video was so intimate that Cash's management didn't think it should be released, and Johnny was leaning in that direction. According to Rick Rubin, it was his daughter, Rosanne Cash, who convinced Johnny to let it go. June died May 15th, 2003, three months after filming, Johnny died September 12, 2003 four months after his wife. Rick Rubin said of the video: “I cried the first time I saw it. If you were moved to that kind of emotion in the course of a two-hour movie, it would be a great accomplishment. To do it in a four-minute music video is shocking. I think the hurt video is a historical document, it's like looking back across a life." Trent Reznor was sent the video while in the studio with Rage Against the Machine’s Zach De La Rocha, and, when the pair sat down to watch it, any doubts he had about the cover were long gone. “We were in the studio, getting ready to work and I popped it in,” said Reznor. "Tears started welling up. I realized it wasn't really my song anymore. It just gave me goose bumps up and down my spine. By the end I was really on the verge of tears…there was just dead silence. There was, like, this moist clearing of our throats and then, ‘Uh, okay, let’s get some coffee.' It really, really made sense and I thought what a powerful piece of art. I never got to meet Johnny but I'm happy I contributed the way I did. It felt like a warm hug. It's an unbelievably powerful piece of work. After he passed away I remember feeling saddened, but being honored to have framed the end of his life in something that is very tasteful. For anyone who hasn't seen it, I highly recommend checking it out. I have goose bumps right now thinking about it. Having Johnny Cash, one of the greatest singer-songwriters of all time, want to cover your song, that's something that matters to me. It's not so much what other people think, but the fact that this guy felt that it was worthy of interpreting. "
By Cody Flanagan
He died four months after his wife. It's sad and sweet at the same time.
I'm honestly surprised he lasted that long. June Carter Cash was his world. I'll never forget reading this: "When asked for his definition of paradise, Johnny Cash replied, 'This morning, with her, having coffee.'" Heaven wasn't trumpets and fanfare, it was a quiet moment with the true love of his life.
@@oregonchick76 Thank you for sharing this.
June Carter Cash died weeks after this video was made. She is the angel looking down on Johnny. Waiting for him...
That's actually quite common. I find it romantic.
@@oregonchick76 wish I could find this feeling in my own life.
This is the one video I can never watch without tearing up. I lost my wife and my grandmother a month apart. As a 40 year old widower, I felt the loss that Johnny was talking about. When I first heard this song, I knew Trent was talking about how drugs was taking him life. Now this song will be Johnny's forever and now I I don't have the heart to hear this song again. Thanks for the great work Gents!
At 6:37 is the the Tennessee River near my hometown of Chattanooga TN. Johnny tried to kill himself in a cave near that river bend. June found him and helped him get straight.
You have cutted off the closing of the piano lid. It's suppose to represent the end of his career has a living person. Very powerful ending
Hey, guys! Johnny Cash actually put out 6 albums at the end of his life, produced by Rick Rubin. They're called The American Recordings. The last was released posthumously. My favorites are the 3rd and the 4th album Solitary Man and The Man Comes Around. Lots of covers, like this one, and with stellar musicians playing along. Highly recommend.
I saw his daughter on "Finding Your Roots" and she said her father was really into genealogy and went to Scotland to find his Scottish roots which he was very proud of. Her DNA was interesting, it reflected her father's heritage.
Everyone’s dna reflects their fathers heritage
@@SwiddyDiddy M'lord *tips fedora*
It's a hard song to hear, and it's just a gut wrenching video. Even just down to that look his wife was giving him. She saved him, many times over.
And his face. Man. That guy saw a lot, and didn't usually appreciate it. He knows the life he led, and that he hurt many to just amass crap and satiate his ego.
We all come to the point where we realize life is truly finite, and it's a hard moment.
I think the woman in this video is his daughter. His wife already passed away
@@umpalumpa-qw8ru Nope. That's his wife, June Carter Cash, who passed a few after she was accidentally captured in the video.
@@citisoccer Oh thanks. Thought it was his daughter
His hands, gliding across the closed piano, for the last time.
Yes! His mic drop at the end of a remarkable lifetime.
You cut off the ending of the video. It was the most emotional part of it (the video).
They used this song in the trailer for the movie Logan, which fit really well.
Talk about telling a life story of pain and regret in under 4 minutes and making it one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen and heard. What a legend RIP.
This song and video break me every time 😭🖤
I love the Nine Inch Nails version but it became Johnny’s song.
You cut it off. You cut off the end. It was important
yes, these 3 men rush through the video without understanding whats important
Hey I requested this song awhile ago lol. FINALLY
I didn't request it but I do like it, it almost feels like they finally got to 1 i suggested, and zombie by bad wolves the other day was 1 i did suggest, even though it was a patreon still counts
Good request .
How do you request just by commenting?
@@Shaw4123 that's how I request but so far n like 6 months I've had minimal luck, been requesting like a dozen songs and an mma fight but so far done like 1 song and thats cuz someone else requested it on patreon... patreon is where some request but I'm not paying anybody to watch videos
@@e-reptiledysfunction2243
Yep, guess I’ll have to just use your method.
You missed him closing his own coffin at the end!
i am an old man that can really identify with this song and his rendition of it. due to a combination of circumstance, happenstance, upbringing, environment, and most of all poor choices. i have left a wake of hurt and lost people behind me. there are those that hate me for what i had to do. those that despise me for who i am. and those that loathe me for my sometimes bad decisions. i have found that it's true in my case as well, everyone goes away in the end. so i have realized that it's best that i closed myself off to the vast majority of the world, and finish my life in reflection, "putting my affairs in order", and trying to mend those proverbial fences before i am finally gone.
but, not to end on what appears to be a downer, i would like you to give a reaction to another Johnny Cash number called, _"A Boy Named Sue"_ .
As much as I love Trent Reznor (he wrote this song)from Nine Inch Nails; I think I prefer Johnny Cash version. 😊😌
Nine Inch Nails said they would never sing that song again - Johnny Cash had made it his .
@@ronaldminch9420 I have never heard of Trent but sounds like a decent chap to pay homage to the great one.
In all fairness “I prefer the Johnny Cash version” is acceptable for any song ever written. Even if Johnny has never sung it. He was just that moving of a performer.
@@davidcooley275 Trent R. actually wrote this song and Johnny covered it. NIN has been a huge metal band for decades. They’re a great band, but Johnny is an entity all his own.
It’s astounding and tailor made for him. I honestly wouldn’t doubt if he could do it all over he may not choose the same path. This song always reminds me of how short life is.
and how final that last curtain.
Love this song. Johnny Cash really eclipsed the NIN version.
Yes. Trent Reznor may have written it ,but it was taylor made for an artist like Johnny Cash
This is one of a very few songs that I feel the original and the cover are equally brilliant. On the one hand you have a young man thinking about how he has already ruined his life, and on the other an old man near the end, reflecting on his life and his regrets. It's perfectly bookends to life. Let's face it, we'll all have something or somethings to regret when it's all said and done. To not have any regrets by the end of this journey would be inhuman.
@tconlon251 Perhaps, but I think it has more to do with the fact that most of the Rick&Morty fanbase were in diapers when the original dropped.
Ended it to soon! So very heartbreaking!
Yeah the part where he closes the piano and feels it one last time….
He always supported talented young artists especially the outsiders. He went to be with his beloved June right after this.
Cash has always been a family favorite. I'll never forget the day I heard this song after its release. The NIN song was always my favorite of theirs. After I heard Cash's cover, I cried and knew it was always meant for him in some way.
As others commented... you missed the most poignant moment of the video. His closing of the piano was the symbolic closing of his career and his life.
Johnny returned to superstar legend status again because this song introduced him to a whole new generation. As you said it could have been written about him. You should react to him doing "The Man in Black". It describes him and his feelings clearly.
Thanks for reacting to this great cover by Johnny!
Not often cover songs are done better than the original, but this is a prime example of it done right.
Check out the live version from the nine inch. Ails 2001 tour. You might change your mind. I agree when it comes to the NIN album version tho.
I cry every single time I watch this music video.
Best song ever in my opinion. At least in my top 3. Glad to see the blokes do more country.
I rarely cry, anymore, over anything. I guess I just grew jaded, over time, to the point where I’m almost completely numbed to feelings of pain and loss, but this song,- this VIDEO is one of the few things that causes my breath to hitch. Not gonna regale you with my life, but the only member of my family that I was ever close to, my grandpa (not by blood, but still my grandpa) died when I was 14, and he is the only other person I can still shed a tear for, so when I say that this song and video is the only other thing that can elicit such a reaction, it just shows how much of an impact it has on me.
whenever I hear this song I always think how will I be remembered, then I try to live my best life. When we die we live on in the memories of those we leave behind so it’s up to us if those memories are good or bad.
At the 5:45 mark when Cash walks around that old white house (his birth home) that reminds him of his most tragic event of his life he wrote years later. In 1944 he watched his brother Jack get sawed almost in half while cutting wood . Folks who knew Johnny before the accident all agree that he was a gregarious, cheerful, funny boy and afterwards became introspective and quiet. Many think it's the reason he performed in all black his whole life. Here in Nashville he is up there in greatness with Elvis and George Jones.
After Trent Rezner heard Cash’s cover, he said *_"That song isn’t even mine anymore”._*
I love his rendition of this song. Amazing!
My brother struggled with mental health issues and this song was the first thing that really helped me understand a little about his battle with depression. Emotion is always my companion when I hear this song.
The video is good, and I find it distracting, I enjoy just listening to the song itself. I liked the song so much I bought the entire album.
This is a great song thanks for watching it.
It’s worth pointing out that Johnny recorded this at the beginning of 2002 and he died in September of 2003. In that 18 months he recorded another 3 albums worth of material. Mostly released posthumously.
Johnny lived for two things. His wife, and his music. Once she went he finished the songs he had left to record and went too.
Office Blokes, I love your videos. However, I mostly watch on my smart TV which allows me to like and subscribe but not to comment. I have 4 channels on my smart TV that I like and subscribe on, this is on my tablet so I can comment, but it's what I watch while taking my morning shit. No offence. I would love to have a pint(although I prefer whiskey) with you guys.
Just think you would take the piss out of me because of my age....I'm nearly 50 but look 70! Love your reaction videos.
Did you seriously stop the video before it ended??!??!?
The MUSIC had ended; the video had NOT.
Dead man singing. I mean that with the utmost respect and admiration. He knew he was close to the end and left it all on stage for this awesome performance.
I am very thankful that you guys don't pretend to have not seen videos. So many reaction channels just feel like lies for views. Always looking forward to your stuff, even if all three of you have already seen the clip before (though hopefully not).
The little white house shown, was where he grew up in the great depression. His father got a poverty grant of 40 acres to farm on and Johnny was picking cotton by hand at age six. His brother died in a horrible mill accident at age thirteen. It was a hard life.
The imagery of the video always gets me... and of course its not often an artist covers a song and the original artist say its not their song anymore.
Johnny Cash had a wild life of misery, then found his peace in Jesus.
You are correct Trent Rezner wrote this and recorded it as NIN. However, after he heard Johnny’s cover he said that it was no longer his song.
My dad died the week that song came out. I had to be stong. Didn't cry. But a couple weeks later I heard this and I was alone and cried like a baby. My dad loved him
You blokes should react to Cocaine Blues by Johnny Cash.
When Johnny Cash covers your song it’s not your song anymore..
Even Reznor said this is his song now.
This song is so beautiful I cry every time. Johnny is amazing
Did you just say he didn't have much success until this album? He is literally one of the most legendary artists of all time.
I think they meant not so much in the years leading to this. Clearly his popularity soared among new generations with this song.
JC never recovered from the loss of June. Makes me sad as Hell, but happy, too, in a sense. Love like that is given only a few. We should cherish more.
my favorite of song all time.. i did a cover on my channel but it does it does it no justice
Awww, you missed a dramatic part at the end. When he closes the piano cover
Very somber and haunting song, and yet still beautiful and powerful. The true voice of an old and broken man who knew he wasn't much longer for this world and that his time here was ending soon. Always gets me every time I hear this song.
Cheers from Arkansauce, birthplace of Johnny Cash!
This song is absolutely chilling...it makes me very aware of my own mortality.
Legit recommended this two days ago
1 of the best covers ever, if not the best cover
What a legend!
He recorded this in 2002. June passed away in 2003. Johnny passed away four months later 💔.
I get goosebumps every time I hear this song. I love it.
R.i.P Legend 🙏🏻🎶
Thanks for covering this guys. There is a lot going on here under the surface (obviously), but one thing that any addiction specialist will tell you is that when one is in the thralls of hard drugs as a lifestyle, they cease to mature psychologically along with their friends and peers and are almost in a state of continuous limbo. I think that is what was meant by "You are someone else.... I am still right here. What have I become?" Just something to think about.
Big fan of the OB!
One bit of information that I read was that his wife, June Carter Cash, was not originally going to be in this video; but, she came down the stairs after hearing him singing to see what was going on and they incorporated that into the video. The video was made in February of 2003. June Carter Cash passed away on 15 May 2003, and Johnny Cash died on 12 Sept. 2003.
The video was filmed in February 2003, June died in May that year, and Johnny followed in September. Interestingly, before he passed he had recorded a song with his daughter Rosanne called "September When It Comes". It has a similar theme of aging and mortality. Give it a listen sometime.
The House of Cash museum burned down in 2007. It had been sold to a new owner and was being renovated, so I'm not sure how much (if any) memorabilia was there.
Johnny Cash is the only artist to be enshrined in the rock and roll, country, and gospel halls of fame. LEGEND
i can't believe the last few seconds of the video isn't included! it's like a story with no closure! aahhh! you guys missed an important part of the video. as others have already said, the closing of the piano was (and Johnny actually confirmed in an interview), his goodbye. he had lost his wife, the one thing, really, that kept him alive, and he knew he was leaving us soon.
Suuuup blessings from Puerto Rico homies.
I can't watch this video without immediately bursting into tears. This man was a fucking legend.
Johnny Cash may have covered it but he did it so well that NIN gave him that song. It belonged to him in the end.
Appreciate your reacting to this one. The clips of younger Johnny and June just kill me 😢💕
I have heard this song about three times start to finish. I really can't do it again. It's just so raw and personal, as if we're listening to Johnny's last thoughts. The opening bars are enough to start me crying.
Please follow up with more Johnny Cash, I suggest "cocaine blues", or "Folsom Prison blues".
I'm crying again. This is so powerful and beautifully emotional. R.I.P Johnny and June 💗
I dont know if you've reacted to it, but Simon and Garfunkles "Sound of Silence" was covered by a metal band called Disturbed, a heavy metal band. Them doing that song had a LOT of people going, what hell. But they didnt go the metal route, they turned a great song into something more. Guys, listen to the Simon and Garfunkle original and then watch video and listen to Disturbs version... it's much better, they improved a legendary song, like Johnny Cash improved Nine Inch Nails "Hurt".. check it out if u havent (watch the Conan O'Brien show live performance of the song)
Trent Reznor initially refused to let Johnny cover the song because he thought it wasn’t good enough. Total respect.
That's not true at all...
This was a Trent Reznor(Nine Inch Nails)song that was really big around 94 or 95 they had this weird duets thing going on where current and past artists did duos,or covered,each other..and Trent went..You know waht..You fucking nailed it bro.You did my song better than me..The original song has more of a grunge/heavy metal vibe..
Can't say I'm a Justin Timberlake fan,but I'll respect the man for this statement he made.He won MTV video of the year and,I paraphrase,said him winning was a tradgedy because everyone knew Johhny Cash Hurt was the greatest video of the year
you guys stopped the video too early, you missed the incredibly poignant ending....
Would the person you were, when you were young, recognize the person you've become. When you look back on your life, are you proud of the decisions you made and wish you hade done it different. Hurt someone and didn't realize it till now. When he says "you are someone else, I am still rite here." Is he saying, he's still in there somewhere, but, lost his way? Now look what he's become.
Please react to House Of The Rising Sun by The Animals
I was a lucky man because back in 1995 I got to see the highwaymen in cadott Wisconsin and got a picture with Johnny cash. While I was deer hunting my roommate threw a party because the city bought the place we lived in and said they were going to demolish it. When I got home everything was ruined along with the picture of me and Johnny cash on the refrigerator!!!
You stopped the video before the piano closed. That's like almost rubbing one out.
You should do the Grateful Dead's "Ripple"
You should react/listen to Jambalaya on the bayou by Hank Williams
Even Trent Reznor stated that Cash's cover was far superior.
Trent wrote this one For Johnny...he just didn't realize it.
He never played that guitar or piano again!!! Hope this man finally has peace
Legends never die
You guys shouldn't have cut off the last few seconds of this video. They had meaning.
You missed the very end, with your quick trigger finger.
Trent reznor, the original author of the song said after hearing Cash's rendition, it's Cash's song now.
This was his last recorded song and tes he served time I folsom prison, and rode the rails...if you are not familiar with the term Google that stuff
Johnny Cash is Arkansas' favorite son, over Bill Clinton. We love him here.
Johnny Cash died just 4 months after June. He redid this song in Feb of the same year. She died in May he died in September
Inquiring minds will all understand very soon