When I was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s one of the first things I did was to write up my will while still of sound mind. I told my wife that I would like this song played at my funeral for my son.
If this song doesn't tear your heart out, you haven't got one. When Johnny Cash's daughter heard it, she said "it sounds like you're saying goodbye", he replied "I am".
I wasn't family but I remember it airing on mtv2 when they still played music...I cried because I was a huge fan and I knew he was telling us all he was going soon
I'm 76 years old. I remember Christmases with my four grandparents, my parents, my two older brothers and their wives, and my little sister. My sister is the only one of them still alive. The older you get the more deaths among your family and friends. This song reminded of them all. My wife is still alive but can't walk, moves in a wheelchair and sleeps most of the time. Sometimes she doesn't remember who I am. Old age isn't fun, it's sad.
Take care Leonard. One day the man will come for us all. All we can really do is live as good a life as we can - and what that means is up for us to decide. I hope all is well with you and your family.
I love her reaction, you can tell she feels the spirit of the song and Her genuine tears scream out the universal commonality of the true pain of loss.
It's amazing how someone like Trent Reznor could write a song so personal and emotional and then Johnny Cash could relate to it so deeply and make it even better.
As a fan of both Cash and Nails, i was so happy when i saw his cover on MTV, i had that song played at my moms funeral and everyone was touched, many asked me what was that song
For those who got emotional... Here is how I will make you cry even harder: His daughter heard this and said it was almost like he was saying goodbye. He answered that he was. This song was recorded not that long before his death.
When Trent Reznor wrote this song, he was singing it from a different place. It was dark and brooding. And then comes JR Cash. It was as though he was singing his eulogy. He knew his time was short, and this was the song to be remembered for all time. The end of this video always hits me pretty hard. When he closes the lid on the piano and wipes it down, it's as if to say "Goodbye". There will never be another Johnny Cash.
@@dieselscience It was when he saw the music video because he heard only the song before the video's release and thought that it was weird hearing his song come from someone else.
The piano chords striking like a ticking clock as his time grew nearer, slowly getting louder. Everything ends and we should all be so grateful to leave such a legacy.
I've probably watched the video at least 30 times and still can't get through it without tears. His performance is so powerful. One of the greatest videos ever made.
Trent Reznor, the frontman for Nine Inch Nails and writer of the song, wrote it in his mid to late 20's while fighting depression. He was initially hesitant to the cover, and hearing for the first time felt almost violated because of the personal meaning the song had for him. After seeing this video though, Reznor has been on record saying, "This is not my song anymore." Very powerful and moving. I can't watch this video without feeling the tears welling up n my eyes.
It was not depression sir he was battling addiction. He said it himself. It was the darkest of days for him, his words. He wanted and was hoping to die. He had become a slave to heroin.
It’s about heroin addiction along of people relate to it because of they can feel the pain or relate but it’s written struggle or opiate addiction there is nothing lower on the planet 10% recovery rate now sadly with fetynal it like playin Russian roulette and more like 1% recovery rate
I think the emotional impact is so heavy because we see our own story in this. Differences of course. I'm 65 so I've enjoyed Johnny Cash all my life. I've watched this countless times and still get teary eyed.
Johnny Cash's cover of his song is on a whole different level. He took a wildly popular, amazing song... and using the exact same words, he turned it into a completely new/different song. You hear this man, who knows hes finally reached the end of his road... and he's so full of regret. Regrets who he's become, who he's been, how things happened. He mourns those he's lost... almost more so not because they're gone but because it took him til the end of his life to realize what's important. Truly... truly an emotional masterpiece in the collection book of Johnny Cash.
He didn't make it a new song, but a new perspective. He took the song and feeling of a young man brooding in thoughts of despair at the person they felt they were and would be and, as an old man at the end of his life, changes the context and therefore feeling to one who is reflecting in despair at a life of regret for having been the person the young man feared he was. It just hits so much harder as a lesson from an old man on his regrets, instead of a young mans fears.
He changed one word. Crown of shit turned into Crown of thornes. My opinion it was genius to change the word for the message that he was trying to convey
Johnny was such a humble man. His love for Joan Carter Cash was so a amazing. Right out of a fairy tale. I praise God that they believed in Him that they kept their faith. 4 months between their deaths,? How much more poetic can it get!!
@@robertdabbs789 Sadly both Johnny and June died shortly after this video was made 😢 I like both versions of this song but Johnny’s is by far my favourite!! He really went out with a bang with this song!!
This is the only song that explains my experience with terminal cancer at 34. To hear other people from around the world feel this same gut feeling truly means music can reach others when words fall short. It's the build-up at the end then that last ring of the piano that really hits me hard. I grew up listening to nin and heard this before, but the way Johnny brings that touch of palpable grief, can't be done by no one else.
My daughter passed away from SIDS at 2 months old. I've lost all my grandparents and parents. My dear friends Michael and Jess. Basically, all I had was my sister. We've always been so close... since my cancer diagnosis in November 2022 and then my terminal diagnosis in March, she has been acting differently. In April I found out she is doing drugs.. speed.. when I confronted her she got mad at me and told me to off myself. She was the last person I ever expected to hurt me like that. I may only have a few months left and I spend them alone. This time last year I was planning to be with my fiancé in the Netherlands for the holidays until I got sick. He had just started his master's degree in mechanical engineering. He couldn't handle the pressure from university and my illness... In May, he choose to stay in Edinhoven and finish his degree. We still talk about every day now but it's not the same. So it's been one hell of time for me. Somehow I'm still holding my head up and going forward. Which reminds me of the song "Only God Knows Why" by Kidd Rock. I'll give that a listen after this.
In my opinion, this is the best cover song ever written. When the original artist states publicly that this song is no longer his, you know that the cover artist nailed it.
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.
Yeah, the very first time that I had ever heard this song was the Monday night when WWE was paying their tributes to Eddie Guerrero after he had passed away that weekend (so every time I hear this song, I think of Eddie) and I didn’t know until years later that it was a cover originally penned by Rezner, and then when I had found out years later after that it was produced by producing legend Rick Rubin and made me love this song more and more the more I learn about it.
Very true, but there's also another dimension to the subtext Johnny is singing. He's also speaking of his regrets for all the people he hurt and drove away because of his past behavior. When you approach the end of your life, your regrets for the mistakes you can never take back loom large.
He took this song and made it his forever. There is no shame in the tears. They were rolling down my cheeks the first time I heard this and a number of times after. His life wasn't as bleak as this song portrays when it was recorded, but he had to know he had limited time left. It was his last video.
I grew up down the street from Johnny Cash in Tennessee. He already had a very accomplished career, but I didn't know when I was younger that he was famous all over the world. He was just a local celebrity I thought. The museum in the video was a common sight for me. It always had a sign that said ''closed to the public''. To see the effect he has on others from a completely different part of the world with this song was very emotional for me. Thanks for this video and for being such appreciative music listeners.
That was the most incredible reaction I’ve ever seen. No talking during the song. Just watched as the song progressed to see your faces continue to change and the tears start to flow. Absolutely perfect.
Such a pure and honest reaction, that song was done to bring out exactly what you felt...a master class in what a great artist with the right song can do. Great reaction guys.
It's a rare song that one can never walk away from after it has found you, it just will never leave. This is one of those songs. It seeks out every crevasse of self-hatred, shame, and regret in your soul, solidifies in those areas, and becomes forever a part of you.
I think the person that he grieves losing the most in this song is himself, hence the last line, "If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself. I would find a way". Such a tragic line.
I'm not sure if that is the intended meaning. I read it as meaning that even if he was given a brand new start, it's so much a part of his nature that he couldn't help but become the same person he despises again - in spite of his best efforts, he would find a way to ruin everything.
When she started shedding tears, it really hit me. This song usually will bring me to tears, but seeing her just did something to me. Like, someone else gets that lyric. Thank you guys!
I felt the same when i first heard this song. The lyrics gripped me and the music and videography was perfectly done. I was never a big fan of Johnny Cash's music with the exception of a couple of songs only. But I must say that this song brought me to tears and made me reflect on some of my past, my family, the ups and downs, the fact that you are not in control of all but more importantly, how to look towards the future. When he said" and you could have it all, my empire of dirt" made me think that with all that he has accomplished in his life and career, there's is nothing you can take in the end. Love who you are, enjoy what you have and be grateful for those who you care about and care for you. Thank you to Johnny Cash, this amazing version of "Hurt" and for allowing us all to get a glimpse into his world.
@@lsuiram he very likely has heard the song before. He was commenting on the content creators reaction to the song. They are also from another country, maybe even one without the same access you may have had the first time you heard the song. Every part of the world is different. Varying access for everyone to information, and entertainment.
I've never cried for this song but watching her brought tears. A raw reaction. True. No matter what race you're running in we're all destined for the same outcome. May we all live life before rotting in our own paradise. Happy Thanksgiving Y'all!
As she started crying...I started crying. This song is so very emotional for me, but seeing it impact someone else like this makes it so much more poignant. Thank you.
My mother was a drug addict and died from related issues due to over dose and such things. I played this song on my guitar (black) as is the Johnny Cash way, and sang it at her memorial. My father never understood this song until my mothers wake. This work of art hits differently for me. It always gives me goose bumps.
When that first tear fell from your right eye i wish i could have given u a hug. This song perfectly explains dealing with a loss. The feeling of emptiness, hurt, and thinking u would give everything u have just to have that special person back.
What really hits me is that this video/song was his last to be put out, Cash was in vary poor health and died 7 months later. When I hear this song I hear him saying how he would give everything to be with the ones he lost, to have more time here, to do things over and that he regrets that he's going to fail those he loves and hurt them because one day he will die and have to leave them.
I'm a Heavy-Metal Fan for nearly 35 years and i know this song for a also very long time! I want to mention that it was originally played by Nine inch nails (NIN) and when i first heared it, i was crying like a little boy. So you two did, too. Incredible song! Johnny Cash is a legend and i'm sure that you could hear him in 100 years to the future... if humanity is still alive
Yep. Everyone goes away in the end. I lost my mom to Azheimer's. I lost my dad to cancer. I lost my cousin to cancer. I lost my uncle to cancer. I lost my sister to cancer. At some point in your life, you begin to see how fragile your life is. Johnny Cash certainly understood that too.
Trent Reznor understood it and should get more recognition for writing the words. Lost both my parents two years apart on the same day, doesn't get easier bud.
@@andrewharrington6953 i lost my dad on april 7th 2017 and my family have had problems ever since.i have had stress problems and trouble controlling my anger,my mum has ptsd because of it and cries nearly every day and my brother has stress too
This song crosses all genres and does what it's supposed to do, invoke thoughts on your own life, loved ones, and the emotions he felt at the time. Music is so powerful.
I don't know how someone could make it through this song on the first listen (or the 81st listen) and NOT cry. One of the greatest videos of all time -- it's a perfect blend of lyrics & music & imagery. Up there with Queen & David Bowie, "Under Pressure."
I’m getting up in years and been a Johnny Cash fan since I was a kid in the 60’s. I’ve lost so many friends, family and my beloved wife. Still have a few friends, very few, and my lovely daughter who actually saved me from cancer. I have lived a full and adventurous life. I’m tired now and I’m ready.😢
"My sweetest friend" (the song is referring to addiction - not a person) "Everyone I know goes away in the end" (addiction is an extremely selfish illness and it sooner or later drives everyone away).
A beautiful couple reacting to a beautiful song. One of the best reactions I have seen. It's great to see the man in black still touching the young lives of those willing to listen. Yall got a sub.
He came out with this version right as his wife was dying. I believe this song was dedicated to her. He died of a broken heart. He lived a very fast life and I feel as if he missed out on a lot and maybe regretted that. Like someone said “this was a man making peace with the next world while saying goodbye to this one.”
Y’all get it. I’ve heard this song hundreds of times, but watching your emotional reaction took me back to the first time I saw the video, and I wept with you. Salute. 🤟🏻
This song, and performance, deserves proper context. Yes, the song is actually a cover of a Nine Inch Nails song. Trent Reznor, the original writer, wrote this during his depression and addiction. Johnny Cash had done covers before in his later years and this song was offered. Neither Trent nor Johnny was keen to the idea at first. Now I will make you cry...June Carter Cash is in the video. His wife of 35 years...he lived life as a man does and she stayed by him during his transgressions. She witnessed this video and was IN IT. Look in her eyes and she is full of acceptance while he is full of contrition. June Carter Cash, the lovely lady looking down upon her husband, died within weeks of this video being made. Johnny died months after. This video is an epitaph to true love. Now perhaps you can understand the true magnitude of this video. The music is one thing...the meaning is another.
June had her own crosses to bear as well. John Carter Cash, their son said his parents both struggled with pills for much of his life. Reese Witherspoon played her as a bit of an angel, but if kind of left out that she was complicated. You don't grow up as part of on act as big as Hank Williams without a few issues.
This is my first time watching you guys react to something and I’m very impressed at the fact that there is no bs. You guys aren’t playing a part like a lot of other reaction channels. The pure emotion is natural and not forced. Thx guys. Keep up the good work.
Same here . that moment. everyone goes away in the end. its a fragile raw human moment for most people i would imagine. me certainly. lovely reaction. thank you. J C's delivery and depth is immense here.
Thank you both. You come from a culture that respects elders and that is so beautiful to me. He looked back at his life and was remorseful for what he did. You felt his pain and let it move through you. That is so beautiful. Thank you so much.
I’ve heard this song hundreds of times and it still gets me in my heart every time! Knowing of his life, this song is so touching. I highly recommend you listening to “The Man In Black”. John had his issues but, he had a heart of gold!
I just looked up "hurt johnny cash reaction" and this video was the first one to come up. I love the energy throughout the video. Definitely subscribing to see more!
This is one of the most amazing creations I have ever seen and heard. To call it a song or music video just doesn’t to cut it. It is one of the most beautiful creations ever. It is so perfect and hits so hard. It hits me just as hard now as it did the first time I ever experienced it and every time in between.
Your reaction was really beautiful in that it was real. You both felt the song together and were both equally moved by the intensely personal way Johnny Cash sang it. Great reaction.
im an old man from massachusetts. I really appreciate your genuine reaction. you seem authentic. i feel the so much like you both described. so now i subscribe.
I've watched several reaction videos for this song by so many types of people and the reaction has been profound. It speaks volumes that Cash's vocal and Reznor's words can cut through so many cultural differences to so many souls.
Bob sent me here today, for her reaction. So genuine. Only life can place that in your heart. A true experience brings something that real out of you, and this song will do that every fucking time. Rest Easy, Man In Black.
Its profound although its the clearest thing in life. We will die. I think its the raw honesty in that line that gets us. No “we will live on in memory“ or “we will be united with our loved ones some day“ sugar coating or religious mumbojumbo. Just plain truth.
Johnny Cash makes a true human being.... LAUGH at absurdity.... CRY for tragedy.... REJOICE for triumph.... FIGHT against injustice.... MOCK hypocrisy.... Welcome, fellow human. In my book, you're family.
I remember when this album came out, I was 13 at the time and even though I was a metal head I loved it. I haven't listened to this song in quite a while and I have never heard of your channel until I found this video. Your reaction was not what I expected, I shed a few tears and it felt like we did it together. Thank you for bringing memories back and thank you for a beautiful video.
I love your open and honest reactions. I cannot hear this song without crying. I will be 60 next year and so much of this song about regrets resonates with me. Thanks for sharing.
That was beautiful. Thank you for sharing that with us. If you're a player and composer, this is worth a deeper look. Like U2's 'One,' it takes very simple elements and makes a lot of them. Even to the point where, in the production, the signal is intentionally overloaded, to capture that sense that his emotions are overflowing. The parts about the needle and the regrets refers to his heroin addiction and the damage he did to his marriage. And of course, living to be very old, he had to watch a lot of his friends pass, leaving him more and more alone. It's like him announcing that he knows the value in his life came from his relationships. And that without them, he is left poor.
I love how they start swaying to the beat of the song, then the realization of how much this person has lost in his life and they freeze as the tear well up and escape.
This song always brings me to tears every time I hear it. I think of my father who passed away 6 yrs ago and it still feels fresh. He too had starting to get Alzheimer’s and the only name he could say was my mother’s. 😢😢
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails wrote this and performed this originally. It's about drug addiction but, the way Johnny performed this takes on a total different meaning. That's amazing. I was crying along with you guys and I've seen it so many times before. It's like Coco. It always gets me
This is the first of many musical reviews eactions I've viewed on RUclips. But never before have I ever witnessed another reviewer literally say nothing throughout the whole song being reviewed. Your faces expressed things perhaps words could not. It was perfect. Thank you, so much.
Trent was reluctant to let that song be covered because it was so personal to him about his addictions but when he received Johnny’s cover of the song he cried and said he might’ve written it but it was Johnny’s song.
That womans tears and how she felt that song hit home the same way it did for me 20 years ago when I first heard it. These 2's reaction actually made me cry.
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When I was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s one of the first things I did was to write up my will while still of sound mind. I told my wife that I would like this song played at my funeral for my son.
Cannot watch this video without bawling my heart out. 😭❤️
I wish you the best J C.
I cried most reading your post. I wish you a great quality of life and a long one at that.
God bless you Jc, Know that Jesus loves you and wants to give you eternal life
I don't know your views on spiritual matters, but you have my respect and my prayers. Peace be upon you.
If this song doesn't tear your heart out, you haven't got one.
When Johnny Cash's daughter heard it, she said "it sounds like you're saying goodbye", he replied "I am".
I wasn't family but I remember it airing on mtv2 when they still played music...I cried because I was a huge fan and I knew he was telling us all he was going soon
7 months after recording this song he passed away
@@gnarkillification 4 months after June passed on.
I just wonder who got his Empire of dirt?
When Trent Reznor hear Jonny Cash's cover of his song he was so impressed by it he said something like "That's not my song anymore".
I'm 76 years old. I remember Christmases with my four grandparents, my parents, my two older brothers and their wives, and my little sister. My sister is the only one of them still alive. The older you get the more deaths among your family and friends. This song reminded of them all. My wife is still alive but can't walk, moves in a wheelchair and sleeps most of the time. Sometimes she doesn't remember who I am. Old age isn't fun, it's sad.
Even thou you lived more than i had. I am near 37.
I love you. Moving comment thanks. Doesn’t happen often.
Take care Leonard.
One day the man will come for us all.
All we can really do is live as good a life as we can - and what that means is up for us to decide.
I hope all is well with you and your family.
Where I am, you once were.
Where you are, I will be.
@@MnemonicHack 🙏
I love her reaction, you can tell she feels the spirit of the song and Her genuine tears scream out the universal commonality of the true pain of loss.
Yup, when she started crying I could only nod my head. I did the same thing the first time I listened to this song, the last words of a Legend.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
When the song ended she wiped her chin…. Her response was beautiful!
It's amazing how someone like Trent Reznor could write a song so personal and emotional and then Johnny Cash could relate to it so deeply and make it even better.
Trent even agreed that Johnny made it better and more powerful.
both of those men are incredible. much love to both
As a fan of both Cash and Nails, i was so happy when i saw his cover on MTV, i had that song played at my moms funeral and everyone was touched, many asked me what was that song
i believe the quote from trent was "it's not my song anymore"
Yes this
Once he closed that piano in the end, he never opened it again.😭
He is singing about his repentance, that's why it's so emotional.
I've watched a lot of reaction videos to this song, but this one is the truest. Her uncontrollable tears are the truest reaction possible.
For those who got emotional... Here is how I will make you cry even harder: His daughter heard this and said it was almost like he was saying goodbye. He answered that he was. This song was recorded not that long before his death.
that's not how you make someone cry...
FACT...That piano has never been opened again...
Thanks for sharing. I did not know this. Again chilling, and now with your remark an emotional en beautiful message.
It’s as if he knew the shadow of death was upon him….
@@chuck196811 the house of cash, Johnny Cash museum burned down during remodeling and almost everything's lost
When Trent Reznor wrote this song, he was singing it from a different place. It was dark and brooding.
And then comes JR Cash. It was as though he was singing his eulogy. He knew his time was short, and this was the song to be remembered for all time.
The end of this video always hits me pretty hard. When he closes the lid on the piano and wipes it down, it's as if to say "Goodbye". There will never be another Johnny Cash.
This.
When Trent heard Johnny's cover, he said, "This isn't my song anymore. It's his."
I think Bowie did this with Blackstar too. This song hits a hell of a lot harder at 37 than it did at 17.
@@dieselscience It was when he saw the music video because he heard only the song before the video's release and thought that it was weird hearing his song come from someone else.
According to sources that was the last time he played that piano. He never opened the lid again. It was goodbye.
The piano chords striking like a ticking clock as his time grew nearer, slowly getting louder. Everything ends and we should all be so grateful to leave such a legacy.
Excellent observation.
not only that. they are perfome like a hammer, an unevitable hammer, every second is a painful hit
I've probably watched the video at least 30 times and still can't get through it without tears. His performance is so powerful. One of the greatest videos ever made.
You won't ! Isn't it Awesome !
He lived his Life in overdrive When I listen I sense Doom like He knew his life was ending The GOAT!
Same here...
Cuz you have a soul.....
i have seen it nearly 200 times and i end up with tears in my eyes less then half way through it
Your emotional reaction was so beautiful.
Her emotional reaction... he is a stone.
@@giovsant3049 His voice is breaking, he knows what happens in the end. We all die alone.
Yes... thank you for these shared tears. God counts every one.
@@nessaseetah1805 amen
Trent Reznor, the frontman for Nine Inch Nails and writer of the song, wrote it in his mid to late 20's while fighting depression. He was initially hesitant to the cover, and hearing for the first time felt almost violated because of the personal meaning the song had for him. After seeing this video though, Reznor has been on record saying, "This is not my song anymore."
Very powerful and moving. I can't watch this video without feeling the tears welling up n my eyes.
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It was not depression sir he was battling addiction. He said it himself. It was the darkest of days for him, his words. He wanted and was hoping to die. He had become a slave to heroin.
It’s about heroin addiction along of people relate to it because of they can feel the pain or relate but it’s written struggle or opiate addiction there is nothing lower on the planet 10% recovery rate now sadly with fetynal it like playin Russian roulette and more like 1% recovery rate
@@joanalorenzo6949not only, actually, he were drinking a lot too, and combined with drugs ita like 5x worst.
he was a heroin addict, he was battling addiction. Eludes to it in the lyrics
I think the emotional impact is so heavy because we see our own story in this. Differences of course. I'm 65 so I've enjoyed Johnny Cash all my life. I've watched this countless times and still get teary eyed.
It's not just Johnny's farewell. It also expresses regret, an amends, and gratitude.
Johnny Cash's cover of his song is on a whole different level. He took a wildly popular, amazing song... and using the exact same words, he turned it into a completely new/different song.
You hear this man, who knows hes finally reached the end of his road... and he's so full of regret. Regrets who he's become, who he's been, how things happened. He mourns those he's lost... almost more so not because they're gone but because it took him til the end of his life to realize what's important.
Truly... truly an emotional masterpiece in the collection book of Johnny Cash.
He did change a few key words.
He didn't make it a new song, but a new perspective. He took the song and feeling of a young man brooding in thoughts of despair at the person they felt they were and would be and, as an old man at the end of his life, changes the context and therefore feeling to one who is reflecting in despair at a life of regret for having been the person the young man feared he was. It just hits so much harder as a lesson from an old man on his regrets, instead of a young mans fears.
He changed one word. Crown of shit turned into Crown of thornes. My opinion it was genius to change the word for the message that he was trying to convey
Johnny was such a humble man. His love for Joan Carter Cash was so a amazing. Right out of a fairy tale. I praise God that they believed in Him that they kept their faith. 4 months between their deaths,? How much more poetic can it get!!
@@robertdabbs789 Sadly both Johnny and June died shortly after this video was made 😢
I like both versions of this song but Johnny’s is by far my favourite!! He really went out with a bang with this song!!
This is the only song that explains my experience with terminal cancer at 34.
To hear other people from around the world feel this same gut feeling truly means music can reach others when words fall short. It's the build-up at the end then that last ring of the piano that really hits me hard.
I grew up listening to nin and heard this before, but the way Johnny brings that touch of palpable grief, can't be done by no one else.
My daughter passed away from SIDS at 2 months old. I've lost all my grandparents and parents. My dear friends Michael and Jess. Basically, all I had was my sister. We've always been so close... since my cancer diagnosis in November 2022 and then my terminal diagnosis in March, she has been acting differently. In April I found out she is doing drugs.. speed.. when I confronted her she got mad at me and told me to off myself. She was the last person I ever expected to hurt me like that. I may only have a few months left and I spend them alone. This time last year I was planning to be with my fiancé in the Netherlands for the holidays until I got sick. He had just started his master's degree in mechanical engineering. He couldn't handle the pressure from university and my illness... In May, he choose to stay in Edinhoven and finish his degree. We still talk about every day now but it's not the same.
So it's been one hell of time for me. Somehow I'm still holding my head up and going forward. Which reminds me of the song "Only God Knows Why" by Kidd Rock. I'll give that a listen after this.
I don't know what to say, I hope you are still with us. @@jrmckim
I hope you’re still here
In my opinion, this is the best cover song ever written. When the original artist states publicly that this song is no longer his, you know that the cover artist nailed it.
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.
Thank you Ian for your comment , I missed his final concert in The Netherlands back in the day but this song and clip is the best farewell .
Yeah, the very first time that I had ever heard this song was the Monday night when WWE was paying their tributes to Eddie Guerrero after he had passed away that weekend (so every time I hear this song, I think of Eddie) and I didn’t know until years later that it was a cover originally penned by Rezner, and then when I had found out years later after that it was produced by producing legend Rick Rubin and made me love this song more and more the more I learn about it.
Genuinely didn't know this, I'll need to try and find these albums, so thank you for this information!!
This is the story
Great summary. Thank you.
He's saying all he accomplished for nothing...
When you have no one to share it with.
FAMILY IS EVERYTHING!
Very true, but there's also another dimension to the subtext Johnny is singing. He's also speaking of his regrets for all the people he hurt and drove away because of his past behavior. When you approach the end of your life, your regrets for the mistakes you can never take back loom large.
Wrong. Friends are everything. Family is just the crooked crowd that you were born into.
@@nieselpriem Family can be chosen family too.
He took this song and made it his forever. There is no shame in the tears. They were rolling down my cheeks the first time I heard this and a number of times after. His life wasn't as bleak as this song portrays when it was recorded, but he had to know he had limited time left. It was his last video.
I grew up down the street from Johnny Cash in Tennessee. He already had a very accomplished career, but I didn't know when I was younger that he was famous all over the world. He was just a local celebrity I thought. The museum in the video was a common sight for me. It always had a sign that said ''closed to the public''. To see the effect he has on others from a completely different part of the world with this song was very emotional for me. Thanks for this video and for being such appreciative music listeners.
This is a really painful and beautiful song.
Loved the way you just felt it in silence. There isn´t much to do while it plays.
Thanks for sharing!
right on
yea it was a very nice cover
fun fact not even his song
The raw emotion in this reaction was amazing.
That was the most incredible reaction I’ve ever seen. No talking during the song. Just watched as the song progressed to see your faces continue to change and the tears start to flow. Absolutely perfect.
Agreed. Best reaction vid Ive seen
Agreed. God bless these 2.
Such a pure and honest reaction, that song was done to bring out exactly what you felt...a master class in what a great artist with the right song can do. Great reaction guys.
It's a rare song that one can never walk away from after it has found you, it just will never leave. This is one of those songs. It seeks out every crevasse of self-hatred, shame, and regret in your soul, solidifies in those areas, and becomes forever a part of you.
I think the person that he grieves losing the most in this song is himself, hence the last line, "If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself. I would find a way". Such a tragic line.
Would mean more if he had written it.
@@andrewharrington6953 It's his song, Trent even said it.
@@TheEvilWithinKevin But the words are
Trent's not his
I'm not sure if that is the intended meaning. I read it as meaning that even if he was given a brand new start, it's so much a part of his nature that he couldn't help but become the same person he despises again - in spite of his best efforts, he would find a way to ruin everything.
@@TheEvilWithinKevin you're taking that literal, and that's not what Trent meant.
When she started shedding tears, it really hit me. This song usually will bring me to tears, but seeing her just did something to me. Like, someone else gets that lyric. Thank you guys!
I felt the same when i first heard this song. The lyrics gripped me and the music and videography was perfectly done. I was never a big fan of Johnny Cash's music with the exception of a couple of songs only. But I must say that this song brought me to tears and made me reflect on some of my past, my family, the ups and downs, the fact that you are not in control of all but more importantly, how to look towards the future. When he said" and you could have it all, my empire of dirt" made me think that with all that he has accomplished in his life and career, there's is nothing you can take in the end. Love who you are, enjoy what you have and be grateful for those who you care about and care for you. Thank you to Johnny Cash, this amazing version of "Hurt" and for allowing us all to get a glimpse into his world.
A thousand likes! Such a powerful video and reaction. Amazing. I love your explanation of how it made you feel.
it`s 2021 ...how can you never heard about jc...hurt....
ps: i`m a romanian...not american..not a very high country class...
@@lsuiram he very likely has heard the song before. He was commenting on the content creators reaction to the song. They are also from another country, maybe even one without the same access you may have had the first time you heard the song. Every part of the world is different. Varying access for everyone to information, and entertainment.
I've never cried for this song but watching her brought tears. A raw reaction. True. No matter what race you're running in we're all destined for the same outcome. May we all live life before rotting in our own paradise. Happy Thanksgiving Y'all!
Their energy immediately reacted to the impact and seriousness of the song. Shows you how powerful this song was.
Also shows they listen with their hearts
As she started crying...I started crying. This song is so very emotional for me, but seeing it impact someone else like this makes it so much more poignant. Thank you.
The woman's reaction in this video broke me. So beautiful emotionally. A great reaction!
It’s a cover of a Nine Inch Nails song, but Johnny immortalised it.
Agree with the feeling of your emotions, and you’re both beautiful humans ❤️
I read that after Reznor saw this performance he said "It's his song, now."
They also used this song for the movie "Logan" - of Marvel's X-Men series.
My mother was a drug addict and died from related issues due to over dose and such things. I played this song on my guitar (black) as is the Johnny Cash way, and sang it at her memorial. My father never understood this song until my mothers wake. This work of art hits differently for me. It always gives me goose bumps.
My condolence turn to Jesus he will save you and help you. Also they said Johnny Cash became a Christian God bless beautiful haunting song
Much love to you
Her reaction is my reaction every time I hear this song. And I've been listening to it for 18 years.
When that first tear fell from your right eye i wish i could have given u a hug. This song perfectly explains dealing with a loss. The feeling of emptiness, hurt, and thinking u would give everything u have just to have that special person back.
What really hits me is that this video/song was his last to be put out, Cash was in vary poor health and died 7 months later.
When I hear this song I hear him saying how he would give everything to be with the ones he lost, to have more time here, to do things over and that he regrets that he's going to fail those he loves and hurt them because one day he will die and have to leave them.
One of his daughters said 'It's like you are saying goodbye' and Cash replied, "I am."
The Man in Black.
Never gave up.
Trent Reznor big up.
He was the the most inspirational man I’ve looked at.
I'm a Heavy-Metal Fan for nearly 35 years and i know this song for a also very long time!
I want to mention that it was originally played by Nine inch nails (NIN) and when i first heared it, i was crying like a little boy. So you two did, too. Incredible song!
Johnny Cash is a legend and i'm sure that you could hear him in 100 years to the future... if humanity is still alive
I love how she just let her tears fall so freely. I do the same every time I hear this song.
Yep. Everyone goes away in the end. I lost my mom to Azheimer's. I lost my dad to cancer. I lost my cousin to cancer. I lost my uncle to cancer. I lost my sister to cancer. At some point in your life, you begin to see how fragile your life is. Johnny Cash certainly understood that too.
So sorry for your loss!
So sorry for your losses brother! Stay strong! We're here for you!
i lost both of my grand parents to cancer and my aunt to cancer as well
Trent Reznor understood it and should get more recognition for writing the words. Lost both my parents two years apart on the same day, doesn't get easier bud.
@@andrewharrington6953 i lost my dad on april 7th 2017 and my family have had problems ever since.i have had stress problems and trouble controlling my anger,my mum has ptsd because of it and cries nearly every day and my brother has stress too
This song crosses all genres and does what it's supposed to do, invoke thoughts on your own life, loved ones, and the emotions he felt at the time. Music is so powerful.
This is my first time seeing peoples reaction to this kind of amazing singing..loved this video and there reaction, especially hers.
She hit the nail on the head about this song!! Bless them both!
Johnny closes the piano like closing a coffin, it's a heartbreaking moment.
It always hurts 😢
His wife had recently died
I don't know how someone could make it through this song on the first listen (or the 81st listen) and NOT cry.
One of the greatest videos of all time -- it's a perfect blend of lyrics & music & imagery. Up there with Queen & David Bowie, "Under Pressure."
Because not everyone actually wants to? Hello? Just please stop believing everyone wants to hurt themselves.
@@stonecold5373 What the hell are you talking about? Who said everyone wants to hurt themselves?
Yes. I cried. _AGAIN._
The song hits harder as you age. I cry every time. Its heartwrenching and beautiful, simultaneously.
I’m getting up in years and been a Johnny Cash fan since I was a kid in the 60’s. I’ve lost so many friends, family and my beloved wife. Still have a few friends, very few, and my lovely daughter who actually saved me from cancer. I have lived a full and adventurous life. I’m tired now and I’m ready.😢
"My sweetest friend" (the song is referring to addiction - not a person) "Everyone I know goes away in the end" (addiction is an extremely selfish illness and it sooner or later drives everyone away).
A beautiful couple reacting to a beautiful song. One of the best reactions I have seen. It's great to see the man in black still touching the young lives of those willing to listen. Yall got a sub.
You both have BEAUTIFUL HEARTS
He came out with this version right as his wife was dying. I believe this song was dedicated to her. He died of a broken heart. He lived a very fast life and I feel as if he missed out on a lot and maybe regretted that. Like someone said “this was a man making peace with the next world while saying goodbye to this one.”
No it was actually written by a band called Nine inch nails. This was offered for him to play at the end of his life.
Y’all get it.
I’ve heard this song hundreds of times, but watching your emotional reaction took me back to the first time I saw the video, and I wept with you. Salute. 🤟🏻
This song, and performance, deserves proper context. Yes, the song is actually a cover of a Nine Inch Nails song. Trent Reznor, the original writer, wrote this during his depression and addiction. Johnny Cash had done covers before in his later years and this song was offered. Neither Trent nor Johnny was keen to the idea at first.
Now I will make you cry...June Carter Cash is in the video. His wife of 35 years...he lived life as a man does and she stayed by him during his transgressions. She witnessed this video and was IN IT. Look in her eyes and she is full of acceptance while he is full of contrition.
June Carter Cash, the lovely lady looking down upon her husband, died within weeks of this video being made. Johnny died months after. This video is an epitaph to true love.
Now perhaps you can understand the true magnitude of this video. The music is one thing...the meaning is another.
June had her own crosses to bear as well. John Carter Cash, their son said his parents both struggled with pills for much of his life. Reese Witherspoon played her as a bit of an angel, but if kind of left out that she was complicated. You don't grow up as part of on act as big as Hank Williams without a few issues.
This is my first time watching you guys react to something and I’m very impressed at the fact that there is no bs. You guys aren’t playing a part like a lot of other reaction channels. The pure emotion is natural and not forced. Thx guys. Keep up the good work.
“Everyone I know, goes away in the end”…breaks me too!…basically everyone dies!
I am watching these individuals. They are not playing. The song is not just beautiful. Their reaction is also beautiful.
Good music touches everyone.
His song and your reaction are both so real and authentic. thank you. He has a children's album. I cried when when I heard
I heard this song today the first time....I was literally crying and just found your reaction
This is REAL. Johnny Cash was the MAN.
THE most genuine reaction video ive seen. let the song play and talk AFTER the song
Johnny's cover of this still gives me chills, every single time.
Same here . that moment. everyone goes away in the end. its a fragile raw human moment for most people i would imagine. me certainly. lovely reaction. thank you. J C's delivery and depth is immense here.
Thank you both. You come from a culture that respects elders and that is so beautiful to me. He looked back at his life and was remorseful for what he did. You felt his pain and let it move through you. That is so beautiful. Thank you so much.
This song touches everyone with demons of any type and allows us all to relate.
EVERYONE HAS DEMONS …
I’ve heard this song hundreds of times and it still gets me in my heart every time! Knowing of his life, this song is so touching. I highly recommend you listening to “The Man In Black”. John had his issues but, he had a heart of gold!
I just looked up "hurt johnny cash reaction" and this video was the first one to come up. I love the energy throughout the video. Definitely subscribing to see more!
This is one of the most amazing creations I have ever seen and heard. To call it a song or music video just doesn’t to cut it. It is one of the most beautiful creations ever. It is so perfect and hits so hard. It hits me just as hard now as it did the first time I ever experienced it and every time in between.
Your reaction was really beautiful in that it was real. You both felt the song together and were both equally moved by the intensely personal way Johnny Cash sang it. Great reaction.
im an old man from massachusetts. I really appreciate your genuine reaction. you seem authentic. i feel the so much like you both described. so now i subscribe.
It’s a powerful message , this song and his voice and cadence will draw the pain out ! Beautifully done!
I've watched several reaction videos for this song by so many types of people and the reaction has been profound. It speaks volumes that Cash's vocal and Reznor's words can cut through so many cultural differences to so many souls.
Bob sent me here today, for her reaction. So genuine. Only life can place that in your heart. A true experience brings something that real out of you, and this song will do that every fucking time. Rest Easy, Man In Black.
Absolutely beautiful respectful reaction !! thank you both for your amazing video and comments.
The Line - "everyone I know goes away in the end" gets to me every time
Its profound although its the clearest thing in life. We will die. I think its the raw honesty in that line that gets us.
No “we will live on in memory“ or “we will be united with our loved ones some day“ sugar coating or religious mumbojumbo. Just plain truth.
Raw reaction. The emotional reaction shows beauty in your hearts. Love it.
As I realize I've lived many more years than I have left this song becomes much more relatable and personal to me. RIP Mr. Cash .
The closing of the piano got me,, it's like he knew that was his last.
Beautiful, 100% respectful reaction…June died soon after, John died soon after that..
You two are very sweet
Life can be so painful but so beautiful, what an amazing rendition of this song .
Johnny Cash makes a true human being....
LAUGH at absurdity....
CRY for tragedy....
REJOICE for triumph....
FIGHT against injustice....
MOCK hypocrisy....
Welcome, fellow human. In my book, you're family.
I remember when this album came out, I was 13 at the time and even though I was a metal head I loved it. I haven't listened to this song in quite a while and I have never heard of your channel until I found this video. Your reaction was not what I expected, I shed a few tears and it felt like we did it together. Thank you for bringing memories back and thank you for a beautiful video.
Maybe the most profound song ever written, and the performance is heart rendingly beautiful.
I love how you watched through the whole song and didn’t keep pausing. It takes away from the song when reaction channels repeatedly pause the video.
I love your open and honest reactions. I cannot hear this song without crying. I will be 60 next year and so much of this song about regrets resonates with me. Thanks for sharing.
RIP JOHNNY!
All these years and I still feel the pain he was goin through when he covered this song.
That was beautiful. Thank you for sharing that with us. If you're a player and composer, this is worth a deeper look. Like U2's 'One,' it takes very simple elements and makes a lot of them. Even to the point where, in the production, the signal is intentionally overloaded, to capture that sense that his emotions are overflowing. The parts about the needle and the regrets refers to his heroin addiction and the damage he did to his marriage. And of course, living to be very old, he had to watch a lot of his friends pass, leaving him more and more alone. It's like him announcing that he knows the value in his life came from his relationships. And that without them, he is left poor.
I love how they start swaying to the beat of the song, then the realization of how much this person has lost in his life and they freeze as the tear well up and escape.
This song always brings me to tears every time I hear it. I think of my father who passed away 6 yrs ago and it still feels fresh. He too had starting to get Alzheimer’s and the only name he could say was my mother’s. 😢😢
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails wrote this and performed this originally. It's about drug addiction but, the way Johnny performed this takes on a total different meaning. That's amazing.
I was crying along with you guys and I've seen it so many times before. It's like Coco. It always gets me
I love Johnny Cash so much. He’s been with me and has helped me throughout some of my worst moments in life. ☹️
This is the first of many musical reviews
eactions I've viewed on RUclips. But never before have I ever witnessed another reviewer literally say nothing throughout the whole song being reviewed. Your faces expressed things perhaps words could not. It was perfect. Thank you, so much.
Respect for letting this song play out. It deserves it.
My first time viewing your channel. And the emotion you both showed watching this masterpiece was a beautiful thing. Thank you.
Wow! Love your reaction. Beautiful sad song.
Trent was reluctant to let that song be covered because it was so personal to him about his addictions but when he received Johnny’s cover of the song he cried and said he might’ve written it but it was Johnny’s song.
That womans tears and how she felt that song hit home the same way it did for me 20 years ago when I first heard it. These 2's reaction actually made me cry.