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The video was recorded Feb/2003. His wife June, died May 15/2003. He died Sept 12/2003. Yòu might enjoy "Walk the Line", a movie about his life starring Joaquin Phoenix, the guy in the new Joker movie. This link is the guy who wrote the song sharing his thoughts about a legend doing his song. www.imdb.com/title/tt6149452/trivia Peace ✌
Yes, this is a very emotional song. Johnny Cash knew that he was quickly approaching the end of his life. He chose to record this song, which is a cover of a song written by Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails), because it reflected some of the issues that he was dealing with at this point in his life. The song also dealt with the issue of drug abuse, which Cash himself had to deal with in the 1960s. It was moving to see in the music video, how when Cash played a piano key, he felt that it was similar to a hammer striking a nail into the hand of Jesus Christ, and he was weeping terribly about it.
@@Artificial_Dopamine yes, I think it's only a few (relative to the whole population) who are that. But I don't think I can put my finger on it either. It's below the threshold of conscious perception I guess. Maybe it's a mixture of honesty and humility. A natural authenticity. I don't know. Hey, don't ask me questions like that! LOL
"Hurt" is the only song to which grown men are allowed to cry. When he closed the piano lid at the end of the video, he knew it was the last time he would ever play music.
Watching a dying mans life flash before your eyes and with those lyrics, dagger to the heart! June died 3 months after this was shot, Johnny, 6. One viewer described it perfectly "he gave his own eulogy".
When his daughter heard him sing this song, she said “it sounds like you’re saying goodbye”. He said “I am”. His wife died not long after recording this song, and he died a few months after that. This song really became his swan song, his goodbye. With all that in mind, this video wrecks me every time. Especially the very end, when he closes and caresses the piano. It has become symbolic of him wrapping up his career and even his life.
I’m so late to this but what makes this so emotionally wrenching is that Johnny cash recorded this just a couple months or so before he passed. You can hear it in his voice. He’s weathered and worn, bare and vulnerable. The Man in Black had faded to grey. God rest his soul. I’ve got many great memories that were created while a Cash song played in the background. Which means every time I hear a cash song, I’m overwhelmed with a sense of joy. We miss you sir. God bless you.
This video is the unofficial epitaph for Johnny Cash. June Carter, his wife, died three months after filming this video, and Johnny Cash died three months after that. This was his farewell. A part of why it’s so sad. Subscribed.
Such a great song writte. By Trent Reznor about his heroin addiction...Cash had addiction problems his whole life and the song reflects his wish he could take a "do over" to not have caused his wife and those around him so.mich pain. He NEVER was in prison--- just a few one nighters in jail here and there. When he was recording at Folsom Prison he inspired an inmate who watched the show....that would be Merle Haggard, who was also became a legendary artist. Cash's story is fascinating. Good job guys.
No need to apologize for having feelings. Healthy masculinity feels all their feelings, and support each other when sorrow comes. Toxic masculinity says you can’t feel. I’m so glad y’all can feel.
He was the original OG. He recorded many versions and wrote many songs while he was in prison. He felt at home amid the convicts and enjoyed performing for them. What you saw and what you got from him was genuine.
I saw NIN in concert when Trent announced that this would be the last time his band would perform this song because it was no longer his song. Trent said it belonged to Johnny now.
He never said it would be their last time performing it. Hurt is literally the most played song at Nine Inch Nails shows. It has ended almost every live NIN show since 2000, up through the last tour.
@@DanH-kk4hc You were at the show at the Civic Center Auditorium in San Francisco? If you were you would have heard him say it. Yet, somehow l don't think you were in that audience.
Johnny Cash passed Away about 8-10 months or so after this video was released. Johnny Covered this Trent Rezner/ 9 inch Nails song Beautifully! Johnny Cashs Wife of 35 + years..June Passed shortly after this song was released. Both Johnny and June Cash were in poor health. June is the woman on the stairs and next to Johnny in this video! Johnny Cash died of a Broken Heart! This song Johnny covered is a testament to his greatness! Very Few if ANY Country Western Artists would have been able to pull this off at all...let alone how well Johnny did! RIP Sir....You are home now With your Wife and parents. You two young Men had a Great commentary on this very moving Video! Keep up the Great work Guys!!!
If you don't feel something emotionally you must be dead! Money and things can make you comfortable but love and fellowship is a necessity. People need people. I am sooo glad you got the point of this song. Alot don't and therefore it discredits the songs story❤❤
I remember watching an interview of Johnny Cash on the CBS news magazine show, "60 Minutes". In the interview segment, the reporter (I think that it was Harry Reasoner) stated that Johnny Cash performed 330 concerts per year during his career. That left only 30 days of home time per year. It is no surprise that Cash felt a lot of regrets about that. In the music video, Cash has the most luxurious foods an American can have available in front of him, and he picks up a goblet of fine wine, and pours it out all over the table, because he no longer felt any pleasure or satisfaction from it. This is an amazing thing, coming from a man who grew up in poverty in a cotton farm collective in Arkansas during the Great Depression. All the work that he did in his life ended up being for nothing.
When he closes the piano and sadly runs his hands across it, I lose it every time. Almost like he knows that might be the last time (dang near was). It's crazy how he made a song someone else wrote sound so completely personal. That's musical genius.
Hey boys... Its a cover of a NIN song, the song is ACTUALLY about the hurt that heroin addiction causes the person and the people around them. Its literally a sad song that Cash made his.... Nothing to do with his wife or anything else... ALTHOUGH... Cash did battle addiction a lot
The thing that makes us emotional about Johnny's version of this song, is that this is a look at all our lives as they come to an end. The song was written by Trenr Reznor from Nine Inch Nails on the "Downward Spiral" album. As soon as producer, Rick Rubin asked Trent if Johnny could cover it, Trent was elated, but when Trent heard it he was so moved by it that he said , "This song is Johnny's now". It held so much more meaning and something we all must identify with: losing our youth, facing our mistakes, seeing people we love die of age, and ultimately our own death. PS. Johnny had just lost his wife, June not long before the song was released. She appears in the video on the staircase gazing down on him. Johnny passed within months of June's.
Its was shot in February 2003 the love of his life June Carter Cash passed in May 2003 and Johnny passed in September 2003 I think the only reason he lasted 7 months after June was because on her death bed she made him promises to keep writing keep working
There is NO SHAME to shedding a tear at this one. I didn't see it until after June passed and, as soon as I did I knew Johnny wouldn't be with us long. When he closed that piano, I wept openly and did so again the day he died. It just shows you've still got a soul. I loved the original and this song along with the album meant the world to me. Johnny owns this one now.
Bros , this man is a legend. He recorded in the same studio at the same time as Elvis. He and his second wife , June Carter (seen in video) , were married a few blocks from where I work in Franklin Kentucky. Check out the movie "Walk the Line" . Joaquin Phoenix , the star of the new Joker movie , plays Johnny in a bio pic. It may help introduce you to more of his music.
This was Johnny's swan song. He recorded this in Feb. 2003, his wife, June, passed in May 2003 and Johnny went to be with her Sept. 2003. Johnny ❤️ June, may you be singin together with the angels.
When he closes the piano at the end and then strokes it, it's like 1. he's saying goodbye to music, and 2. he's closing his own coffin. Appropriate, since this was the last song he recorded.
If you know anything about Johnny Cash's life, he is telling his story. the strangest part about this song is that Trent reznor from nine inch nails wrote it not knowing he just wrote Johnny Cash's biography. When Trent was interviewed in one of his interviews he said that when he heard it and saw it he cried he just broke down. Cuz when Johnny Cash does one of your songs it's no longer one of your songs it's Johnny's. But it's almost cosmic that Trent reznor from nine inch nails wrote this song without knowing that he wrote it about Johnny Cash. "The needle tears a hole the old familiar sting" is a reference to Johnny's younger days when he was a junkie. His empire of dirt meaning he would give every penny every piece of land every single thing he had ever accomplished in his life just to have his wife June back. That's who he's referring to when he says my sweetest friend. Everyone I know goes away in the end, that line is a reference to the fact that do two years of drug and alcohol abuse Johnny did not expect to outlive June or anybody else he knew but he ended up outliving almost everybody. This was the last thing he recorded before he died.
Sacred Serpents®™ as great as it would be if it was the last thing he recorded, it’s not. I’d have to double check but I believe “like the 309” was. This is the last video he did though.
He was one of the greatest country music stars ever, and had a SUPER troubled life of drinking, drugs, cheating, fighting, and he died a few months after he recorded this. It sounds sad, because he'd just lost his wife and people said he died of a broken heart.
Great reaction guys and yes totally gut wrenching. Johnny was a fantastic story teller and his Ring of Fire from earlier in his career was rarely off my turntable. Incidentally Sam Phillips who run the small Sun record label in Memphis had amongst notable others Elvis, Johnny, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison and Jerry Lee Lewis recording for him at various times
Johnny's cover of "Hurt" is so powerful because of his voice, his playing, and his well documented life story. Anyone who is not moved emotionally could not be considered truly human by any important measure.
When you are in the pursuit of stuff like money, fame, fortune, power, you lose those things MOST important. Love, happiness, truth, kindness. When you get older you realize TRULY what you have lost, including yourself. One thing you NEVER get back is time. No matter how badly you wish you could Time to make things right Do the right thing Love the way you should Care the way you could Heal the wounds you created in others PLEASE don't waste your time, your LIFE, in the pursuit of stuff Because when you are truly alone with nobody there The stuff is not going to fill that void
Johnny Cash's last few songs and videos that he did this was amongst them. they were cover songs. the song "Hurt" it was written by Trent Rasner of 9" nails. they say that Trent was Meant to write the song, but Johnny Cash was meant to perform it. Along with this song another you should check out from this album is "God's gonna cut you down" ... As well as "When the man comes around"
I like the insight and sensitivity you two brought to your critique of this sad song. My Dad was always a big fan of Johnny Cash, and I think it's helpful to remember three things : 1. Cash's wife June - whom he loved dearly - had been very sick right before the making if this video, and died soon after it's release (she's in the video) 2. Johnny Cash was a life-long Born-Again Christian, and 3. Johnny Cash had a long history of heroin addiction ("the needle tears a hole . . . the old familiar sting . . . ")
A legend for over 50 years and a man who did more than any modern "star" could dream of. He sang to prisoners in San Quentin and sang "San Quentin I hate every inch of you" prisoners and guards cheered.
Ask any hospice nurse any nurse that deals with death on a regular basis and they will tell you that no one in this life when they approach the time of their death ever looks back and says I wish I had worked more instead they say I wish I had loved more that I had spent more time with my kids nobody says they wish they would’ve spent more time arguing or filling out extra paperwork this song remind you of it
Just went to the 3rd annual Johnny cash heritage festival in his home town of Dyess, Arkansas. I'm glad to be from the same state as such a great musician.
His brother is buried in Bassett another small town about 5 miles from dyess. He Johnny talk about joiner and Bassett and Wilson the place they went when it flooded. Where he got the idea for high high is the water. His sr pic is still on the wall at dyess high school. But the school was closed many years ago.
This song is a cover of the song by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. When Reznor heard this version, he said the song doesn't belong to him anymore, it belongs to Johnny Cash.
Johnny Cash was a country music legend and a master story teller. He has lots of legendary songs you guys should check out. (Folsom Prison Blues), (Walk The Line), (Ring of Fire), (Boy Named Sue), and many more. And story telling like the( Ragged Old Flag ) video. Plus there’s a really good documentary movie on RU-vid called (The Gift- The Journey of Johnny Cash) plus the Hollywood movie about him called (Walk The Line) movie
The woman on the clip is June his wife, the love of his life who passed away 3 months after this was filmed and Johnny passed 7 years later. This song is so beautiful but sad, I will crying with you Zack and Sam. I found an article about this song so you guys can read it www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-story-behind-johnny-cash-s-hurt-still-the-saddest-music-video-of-all-time-a6683371.html
Lads listen to Jonny cash my name is sue. He performs it in front of prisoners in a high security prison the joy on their faces is priceless it’s the poplar opposite to hurt you will love it 🤣
If you like Johnny Cash's storytelling style, you might want to check out "A Boy Named Sue," which is one of his signature songs and surprisingly funny. I'm also a big fan of "Sunday Morning Coming Down," "Highway Patrolman," "The Legend of John Henry's Hammer," and ABSOLUTELY "Folsom Prison Blues."
You need to understand, Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails - NIN) wrote this about his drug addiction. It stripped him raw to put this part of himself out there, but it was therapeutic. Johnny Cash had the same addiction in his past, but he was also facing the end of his life and he knew it. He took this song and made it into a reflection of his past sins, putting it on display for the world. It's painful to watch. Trent acknowledged that Johnny made this song his own, that it was his new, that's the level of raw soul-baring showcased here. Both versions are incredible, but this one is on another level entirely. There's no shame in shedding tears at a great man's eulogy.
Your accents are so thick I don't always hear every word you guys say, but I don't think needed to this time. Most honest and heartfelt reaction I've seen anyone have with this song.
Gotta check out NIN's original version... Trent and Johnny share alot of similarities in their lives and they way they each approached this song put into perspective the journey of life and the differing perspectives of a young man currently going through it all and then a man at the sunset of his life looking back at it all...
Men get old and look back on their lives. All the things they can't change. All the wealth, fine food and fame, and none of it means as much as all the love lost. He adored his wife, June. He didn't last long after she passed away.
You should really do a comparison between Trent Reznor and Johnny Cash on this... Rest in Peace, Johnny... AND all. You should know Johnny's got his place in the Gospel Hall of Fame, the Country Hall of Fame, AND the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame. It's a bit of work to manage all three. ;o)
