that's actually an graphics ai version of her she was dead when he made this video, but, he wanted to see her in the video. This was his last hit and he died almost a year after her . They really were one of those couples who loved each other a lot. The old saying is if a couple really loves each other they die within a year of each other or year and a half. That happened here and this was his goodbye song and he couldn't exist without her. My grandparents did it too. My grandmother died the week of thanksgiving and my grandfather died christmas eve the next year. It's crazy how some people love each other that much.
Johnny's daughter said after seeing this, dad it sounds like you're saying goodbye. Johnny's response was, I am. That was his wife, June on the stairs behind him, and his mom in the portrait. June passed away on May 15, 2003. Johnny passed away shortly after her on, Sept. 12, 2003. Nice reaction to the man in black.
This was Johnny Cash's goodbye to all of us. I cry every time I hear it. I never met him but he was a part of my life. Since the day I was born I heard his voice. So I cried like a baby when I saw this video. I knew it was goodbye. He'll be a part of my life till I die. Thank you Greg❤☮️
Same. I still remember watching the video for the first time. I cried I know it was his goodbye and I counted the days until I heard of his death. I cried 😭
Here is the story of how this came about; In 2002, Trent Reznor had released three albums with his industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. The second LP was 1994’s The Downward Spiral, a gruelling concept album that tells the story of a character’s descent into darkness. The finale is Hurt: a brutal depiction of self-loathing and emotional numbness that begins “I hurt myself today / To see if I still feel.” When Cash appeared on U2’s 1993 album Zooropa providing vocals for the track The Wanderer, he came to the attention of producer Rick Rubin, who was looking for acts for his American Recordings label. Rubin had sent the song to Cash before, but the veteran musician couldn’t hear beyond the industrial noise and anguished howl that featured in the original. “I think it was hard for him to hear it,” Rubin told Rolling Stone. “So I sent him the lyrics. I said, ‘Just read the lyrics. If you like the lyrics, then we'll find a way to do it that will suit you’.” Cash was convinced by Rubin's belief in the song and agreed to try recording it at the producer's home in LA. The musician was suffering from autonomic neuropathy brought on by diabetes and by the time he recorded Hurt, his health was failing. “There were times when his voice sounded broken,” said Rubin. Instead of being a song about a young individual on the downward spiral to self-destruction, Cash interpreted the lyrics as a man at the end of his life. The result is heartbreaking as the veteran musician sings in a quavering, emotional voice: “If I could start again / A million miles away / I would keep myself / I would find a way.” The video was shot in bitterly cold weather in Nashville in February 2003. Three months later, June Carter Cash, the musician’s wife of 35 years, died. You see her in the stairs in the video. And his Mother in the photo. Johnny Cash himself died on 12 September 2003, just under a year after the release of American IV. The album was the first Johnny Cash studio LP to achieve Gold status in the US for more than thirty years. It introduced the legendary singer to new generations of listeners.
Originally written by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. After seeing this video he said, "This isn't my song anymore." This is one of those songs that no matter who many times you hear it, you want to cry. This song draws you in and for the 3 minutes and 40 seconds of it's duration and takes you on an emotional ride through the heart of a man that knows what his life has been, what he has done, and left undone, and when it's over it leave you standing, forever changed, and glad you will never be the same again.
Reznor reportedly wasn't too excited about an older country singer doing a song that was so much a part of himself..... Until he heard it. At least that is what I heard.
@@macmcgee5116 Same thing I've heard. I think this and Whitney taking ownership of Dolly's song are the only two songs ever that there is no argument against the cover is better than the original.
I saw NiN in concert not long after Johnny Cash died, and when it came time to play Hurt, they played it in the style Cash sang it as a tribute to the Man In Black
I think it was the third or fourth time I saw this, they put captions up on the screen saying where each shot was and the significance of it, and then we see his wife on the stairs and one pops up saying how she never saw the video as she died 12 weeks after filming it. That just crushed me.
This song was originally written & performed by "Nine Inch Nails". It was written about drugs & depression. But Johnny Cash's version is considered the best. His version is more about regret for past mistakes in life & realizing material things & fame mean nothing in the end. When the video was filmed in February 2003, Cash was 71 years old & had serious health problems. His frailty is clearly evident in the video. He died seven months later, on September 12 & his wife, June Carter Cash, who is shown gazing at her husband in two sequences of the video, had died on May 15 of the same year.
I think Reznor also did great with this song, he also expressed regret and depression over his use of drugs. It's very much different from how Johnny has done it, but It's also a hard-hitting message. Trent also expresses his pain in a way that you will feel.
Both versions are brilliant and quite different. You'll get so blown away by the Cash version that you kinda forget what the original was like, and it's worth it to make yourself go back and relisten to the Reznor one. I had forgotten about this little plaintive single note piano part that is in there, for example. I like having both...
I understand completely about hurting yourself to see if you can still feel the pain. I'm 60 and I can't cry anymore. I feel like that I've cried all the tears I was alloted in this life.
This song is a lot to digest. He didn't write it (it's by Trent Reznor, from Nine Inch Nails), but along with the video it can be strong meat to swallow. His wife June died shortly after the video was released, and Johnny passed 4 months after her. He clearly knew he wasn't long for the world at the time he shot the video.
i watched 100+ reactionvideos on this song, & damn bro, this song makes even the toughest guy shed in tears man, old, young, it doesn't matter. It hits me every time
It's quite a message to receive. Nobody gets out of life alive and there *is no retelling* of a person's personal story. It is what it is. It makes me think of an old saying: The best things in life aren't "things" at all.
A minute in - Love your reaction. It's real. It hits our soul. He learned that stuff in life does NOT make us happy or fill what we are all searching for. Purpose. What are we here for? I know God uses this recording and his life. Good news is he and his wife both gave themselves to Christ and spent the remaining few years traveling and singing for Him. He alone has what we are all programmed for. Thanks for your excellent reactions.....
Johnny was addicted to drugs for several years back in the 60’s as was Waylon, Willie, Glen Campbell etc. I don’t know that he ever used a drug needle but he was an addict so he can definitely, personally relate to drug addiction. His wife, June Carter Cash, was a member of a legendary old country family noted for Bluegrass and Gospel music.
Yeah I think Johnny's poison was the Opiates/Pain Pills.. But as every addict will ever tell you, being on Pain Pills for very long periods of time usually leads to Heroin use eventually. Unless they choose the other direction which is getting clean
Nine inch nails Don't sing this now. Johnny was on opiates and yes he did hit the needle. Coming from an opiate addicts point of view, (5 yrs clean) its one of the hardest songs to hear and watch. You can't take back all the things you done in your life that hurt people. Tiny lies turn to rivers of pain. You are constantly hurting others. He was addicted to speed and the rest but. All addicts hurt themselves, friends, family even strangers. The extra level is June's just found out she had cancer again and hadn't told him before this video. She died 15 May 2003. Johnny worked day and night in the studio until his death 12th September 2003. He didn't want to be away from her for too long. O yeah Nine inch nails said it was no longer their song.
Nice reaction. Johnny Cash had so many great songs. This video at the end of his career was nominated for MTV awards and got him a new generation of fans.
Johnny had a bad pill addiction ..his wife June helped him thru very hard times..she had a strong relationship with Jesus Christ...and johnny too became a true believer....and at the end he knew the only thing that matters is the Love and Forgiveness ..in Jesus Christ..who died for us and rose on the third day!!🤗🤗🎆🎆🎆
You know j.c that song and that video is just like closest to perfection you will ever get...I didn't knew J.C but after this I started to search info..and man he had a tough life but June was his backbone for sure..greetings from belgium
Throughout someone's life, his life, with all the cover-ups, lies, wronging other people, addiction, and sinful acts that being a star does to people, he wanted to set it straight. This song gave him a way to confess his wrong doings in life to God and others before he died. This song was a very humbling song of repentance, that's probably why he chose this song to go out on. He's a legend that kept it real in the end.
His life, especially on the last extended chorus where the images speed up, passes before his eyes in this video. It's a sneak preview of our lives passing before our eyes in our final moments. Do not believe for one second that man's salvation can ever be man-made. It can be found only on your knees before your Maker. All else is just trying to keep the Cool Kids from rejecting you.
Johnny Cash was one of the greatest country musicians of all time. That was his wife June Carter Cash behind him. She was a very well regarded country musician herself. Their duets are some of the most powerful music ever recorded. Johnny said that she was the reason he had such a successful career as she stuck with him throughout his battle with addiction and a couple of prison sentences when he was young. My grandfather was acquainted with them for several years and he performed at their saloon/dance hall in the late 1960s to the late 1970s. I got a chance to meet them both when I was 7 and again when I was 10. My great uncle Robert on my grandmother's side performed with Johnny on 3 occasions and our family greatly respected them both. Johnny was also one who respected talent in many people he met and helped Charley Pride get started in the music business. My great uncle Co wrote parts of "The Snakes Crawl at Night". It was written by the 2 of them shortly after my great uncle went through a divorce which was released in 1966. The song is about him discovering his wife's infidelity.
I have a feeling like all his other fans think this was his way of saying goodbye to his fans and it was awesome this video was actually nominated for the best male video of the year on the VMAs Justin Timberlake won the award he dedicated the award to Johnny Cash
It's so true. When we're kids we dream of all of the things we'll do when we get older. What we fail to realize is every year we get older so do those we love, those who raised us and our friends. Then you see that the older you get the more people you lose. Eventually, you realize that what really matters isn't what we built or acquired throughout life but the time we got to spend with those we love. The memories end up being what are priceless and irreplaceable.
It's been so many years, and I'm never in a state I can take this in and not cry like a fool. I honestly think I never will, and maybe that is not wrong at all....
does that to everybody man... I am tearing up just thinking about it... I am 65 now and have no where the life he nor Trent had/have, but man did it ever speak to me and the stupid I went through and how with the help of God somehow got through the stupid to the other side.... God bless you and everybody else who has recently decided to watch this the 1st time, after 2 decades... it is that powerful. 20 years later, it still speaks to me. I can't watch it without breaking into tears. BTW, I'm a biker, not afraid of squat (too stupid I guess), including showing my emotions.
There will never be another Johnny Cash! To do this before you died as a goodbye... Then you hear it, and how the lyrics coming from his perspective sound like he's saying, no, how he's almost begging to go home. It's truly chilling!
One of the best covers of all time. It would be a kick for you to listen to the original, it is wildly different and also quite good. But the cover really does steal the show.
I am so enjoying watching videos of you 'youngsters' discovering 'our' music. Partly because I know what's coming and can watch it reach you as it did us. I paused this at the very beginning, so I hope someone warned you to have tissues ready. I have rarely seen anyone listen to this song and not find themselves weeping. "Hurt" is Johnny's life, but it is also OUR lives. We have each had regrets. So now I will watch this reach in and grab your heart as it does to almost everyone who hears it. We who grew up with Johnny (the Man in Black) know his history. He spent time in jail. He fought drugs and alcohol. He knew what it meant to hurt those he loved. He was super successful (his "empire of dirt") and then saw it fade. He was on his comeback when God took him home.
I think you cut the video a little short at the end. His closing the top of the piano is the same movement of closing a casket! Chills every time! Thank you for sharing and your comments! Love from Texas🤠🤠🤠
You would have never have guessed that young man in his 30s wrote the song. Trent Reznor wrote this song when he was in the throes of heroin addiction. It was originally released in the 90s by him and his band nine inch nails.
I must say that I never paid attention to this NIN song because I never truly understood it (you know, its drug addiction context) but, pfff, I still break whenever I listen to Cash’s cover because I could relate to him and his feelings that he so masterfully delivered here. And the videoclip is the last nail on that imaginary emotional context as my mind always drifts in remembrance of those dearest who left before
@3:39 I started feeling it last year. You lose your friends, family and eventually you're all thats left. Having 5000+ social media friends don't help here.
Johnny Cash, 'The Man in Black' who preformed in prisons, championed for all the downtrodden and broken among us...had a rough, rough life from the get-go. Despite great fame, His hurt was related to his past, and even self inflicted many times. This was his humble 'Goodbye' to us. One of a kind legend. ❤
Johnny Cash knew the fact and reality of the old saying “Only one life, it will soon be passed, only what’s done for Christ will last.” You could see his anguish along with the images of Christ being nailed to the cross knowing that his sins were some of the ones Jesus voluntarily sacrificed himself for, as he did for all of those who would repent of their sins and trust him his finished work on the cross. Great song great reaction. Praying God’s best for you.
A very beautiful but heavy song, especially if you wasn't expecting it. Its written by Trent Reznor like if he was knowing in his subconcienceness that he was creating this treasure for Johnny to be performed.
This is actually a cover of the band 'Nine Inch Nail's original version. It seems to suit Johnny perfectly at that stage of his life. This was his goodbye song. If you have not heard him before, find something from when he was in his prime. So many great hits.
It was johnny and Justin Timberlake (Whos from Memphis) nominated at the MTV VIdeo Music awards. Justin won and when he got on stage Justin said "This is a travesty, I grew up listening to Johnny cash" Trent Reznor (NIN) wrote about an angry young man entering the world, Johnny took it and made it about an old man saying goodbye real recognizes real, Hip Hop, rock, jazz, what have you. All put respect on Johnny's name
I respect Johnny Cash so much I got to see him in concert in Omaha 1980 I loved how real he was...I watched his documentary and the Movie about him... This song brings tears to my eyes 😢 Absolutely this is his goodbye to his fans😞
The song was originally written by Trent Reznor on Nine Inch Nails, but after Johnny cave out with this cover, Trent said "This isn't my song anymore".
He was covering another band, I forget their name. He sang "everyone I know goes away in the end," while his wife was watching him sing. She died before he did.
This is Johnny Cash's goodbye. He put everything he had left to make this video. Yes, that's June Carter Cash, she passed away shortly after this was made and he passed away a few months later.
So much more powerful if you have gone through addiction I used to listen to this in complete despair. I'm through that and unfortunately for many the only advice I have is don't give up, it's one of those annoying things you have to get so low some can't deal with it, I'm strong willed and minded and it nearly took me.
"That's his wife behind him?" - probably the best description of June Carter Cash. 24/7/365, through his addictions and arrests, that's where she was.
the ultimate ride or die woman, we should all be so lucky
that's actually an graphics ai version of her she was dead when he made this video, but, he wanted to see her in the video. This was his last hit and he died almost a year after her . They really were one of those couples who loved each other a lot. The old saying is if a couple really loves each other they die within a year of each other or year and a half. That happened here and this was his goodbye song and he couldn't exist without her. My grandparents did it too. My grandmother died the week of thanksgiving and my grandfather died christmas eve the next year. It's crazy how some people love each other that much.
Johnny's daughter said after seeing this, dad it sounds like you're saying goodbye. Johnny's response was, I am. That was his wife, June on the stairs behind him, and his mom in the portrait. June passed away on May 15, 2003. Johnny passed away shortly after her on, Sept. 12, 2003. Nice reaction to the man in black.
He started to die the day June passed away because he loved her dearly. This was his goodbye song 😞
Strange how that happens. I see Pres Carter going soon too since Roselyn passed.
As soon as they show June, I lose it every time. She was a great woman, went through a lot with Johnny.
I take as when Johnny closes the piano that he is saying good bye to everyone. Almost like he knew it was over 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
his arms are so swollen, i hope he's ok.
Think about this, a super star having a chance to say goodbye to his millions of fans. I believe he loved us.
RIP MAN IN BLACK.
I wasn't even a fan the first time I heard this and he said goodbye to me too.
This was Johnny Cash's goodbye to all of us. I cry every time I hear it. I never met him but he was a part of my life. Since the day I was born I heard his voice. So I cried like a baby when I saw this video. I knew it was goodbye. He'll be a part of my life till I die. Thank you Greg❤☮️
@Kim King But what a way to say goodbye and leave us with a treasure that not only has outlasted him but will probably outlast many of us...
Same. I still remember watching the video for the first time. I cried I know it was his goodbye and I counted the days until I heard of his death. I cried 😭
I love this song the way John did it leaves me feeling the tears dripping out of my eyes...
Johnny took a song that was already emotional and took it to a whole level! The great man in black saying goodbye.
Here is the story of how this came about;
In 2002, Trent Reznor had released three albums with his industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. The second LP was 1994’s The Downward Spiral, a gruelling concept album that tells the story of a character’s descent into darkness.
The finale is Hurt: a brutal depiction of self-loathing and emotional numbness that begins “I hurt myself today / To see if I still feel.”
When Cash appeared on U2’s 1993 album Zooropa providing vocals for the track The Wanderer, he came to the attention of producer Rick Rubin, who was looking for acts for his American Recordings label.
Rubin had sent the song to Cash before, but the veteran musician couldn’t hear beyond the industrial noise and anguished howl that featured in the original. “I think it was hard for him to hear it,” Rubin told Rolling Stone. “So I sent him the lyrics. I said, ‘Just read the lyrics. If you like the lyrics, then we'll find a way to do it that will suit you’.”
Cash was convinced by Rubin's belief in the song and agreed to try recording it at the producer's home in LA. The musician was suffering from autonomic neuropathy brought on by diabetes and by the time he recorded Hurt, his health was failing. “There were times when his voice sounded broken,” said Rubin.
Instead of being a song about a young individual on the downward spiral to self-destruction, Cash interpreted the lyrics as a man at the end of his life. The result is heartbreaking as the veteran musician sings in a quavering, emotional voice: “If I could start again / A million miles away / I would keep myself / I would find a way.”
The video was shot in bitterly cold weather in Nashville in February 2003. Three months later, June Carter Cash, the musician’s wife of 35 years, died. You see her in the stairs in the video. And his Mother in the photo.
Johnny Cash himself died on 12 September 2003, just under a year after the release of American IV.
The album was the first Johnny Cash studio LP to achieve Gold status in the US for more than thirty years. It introduced the legendary singer to new generations of listeners.
The man in black….the legend RIP
Originally written by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. After seeing this video he said, "This isn't my song anymore." This is one of those songs that no matter who many times you hear it, you want to cry. This song draws you in and for the 3 minutes and 40 seconds of it's duration and takes you on an emotional ride through the heart of a man that knows what his life has been, what he has done, and left undone, and when it's over it leave you standing, forever changed, and glad you will never be the same again.
Reznor reportedly wasn't too excited about an older country singer doing a song that was so much a part of himself..... Until he heard it.
At least that is what I heard.
@@macmcgee5116 Same thing I've heard. I think this and Whitney taking ownership of Dolly's song are the only two songs ever that there is no argument against the cover is better than the original.
I saw NiN in concert not long after Johnny Cash died, and when it came time to play Hurt, they played it in the style Cash sang it as a tribute to the Man In Black
@@bgbdcam damn wish there was a video out there of that
Saw NIN in concert, and they did the same, but then held the mic out and the audience sang it for a good long part of the song.
Yes that is his wife. He died just a few months after her. They had an epic love and I don’t think he could (or wanted to ) live without her.
I think it was the third or fourth time I saw this, they put captions up on the screen saying where each shot was and the significance of it, and then we see his wife on the stairs and one pops up saying how she never saw the video as she died 12 weeks after filming it.
That just crushed me.
@@surfdigby so sad! 😢
This song was originally written & performed by "Nine Inch Nails". It was written about drugs & depression. But Johnny Cash's version is considered the best. His version is more about regret for past mistakes in life & realizing material things & fame mean nothing in the end. When the video was filmed in February 2003, Cash was 71 years old & had serious health problems. His frailty is clearly evident in the video. He died seven months later, on September 12 & his wife, June Carter Cash, who is shown gazing at her husband in two sequences of the video, had died on May 15 of the same year.
I think Reznor also did great with this song, he also expressed regret and depression over his use of drugs. It's very much different from how Johnny has done it, but It's also a hard-hitting message. Trent also expresses his pain in a way that you will feel.
Both versions are brilliant and quite different. You'll get so blown away by the Cash version that you kinda forget what the original was like, and it's worth it to make yourself go back and relisten to the Reznor one. I had forgotten about this little plaintive single note piano part that is in there, for example. I like having both...
Well Johnny Cash also had his own addiction problems. So im sure it also hit home for him in the same way
@@YourMothersMan,
Exactly Johnny Cash was no stranger to addiction.
Trent said the song was Johnny’s now. And he was happy it was.
I understand completely about hurting yourself to see if you can still feel the pain. I'm 60 and I can't cry anymore. I feel like that I've cried all the tears I was alloted in this life.
Johnnys last song.
I’ve heard it hundreds of times but still have to dry an eye.
Yes
This one always get's me. Rest in Peace Johnny and June. 😢😢
No one is ready for the freight train that this song is and how he portrays it. It just hits to the soul.
Amazing how this speaks to men. Look at the reactions.
Last song he ever recorded 😢 miss him.
This song is a lot to digest. He didn't write it (it's by Trent Reznor, from Nine Inch Nails), but along with the video it can be strong meat to swallow. His wife June died shortly after the video was released, and Johnny passed 4 months after her. He clearly knew he wasn't long for the world at the time he shot the video.
i watched 100+ reactionvideos on this song, & damn bro, this song makes even the toughest guy shed in tears man, old, young, it doesn't matter. It hits me every time
It's quite a message to receive. Nobody gets out of life alive and there *is no retelling* of a person's personal story. It is what it is.
It makes me think of an old saying: The best things in life aren't "things" at all.
Johnny cash was the personification of its never too late because sometimes sinners make the best saints
Amen to that. That's just speaking the plain truth. R.I.P. Johnny and June you're up in heaven singing in God's Palace. 🙏🙏🙏🖤🖤😢😢😢❤️❤️❤️
Its the his experienced voice that did it for me. So full of a lifetime of emotion.
It’s so raw and authentic.
An excellent last Performance. Bravo. This shows the next generations a peek into there own regretful future.
A minute in - Love your reaction. It's real. It hits our soul. He learned that stuff in life does NOT make us happy or fill what we are all searching for. Purpose. What are we here for? I know God uses this recording and his life. Good news is he and his wife both gave themselves to Christ and spent the remaining few years traveling and singing for Him. He alone has what we are all programmed for.
Thanks for your excellent reactions.....
One of the most powerful songs that I've ever heard, a final farewell from a man who knew his time was coming to an end.
This song is considered to be one of the best cover songs ever.
Wow...just wow. Lotta tissues
It kills me to see his wife come down the stairs and see him in so much pain😢
Johnny was addicted to drugs for several years back in the 60’s as was Waylon, Willie, Glen Campbell etc. I don’t know that he ever used a drug needle but he was an addict so he can definitely, personally relate to drug addiction. His wife, June Carter Cash, was a member of a legendary old country family noted for Bluegrass and Gospel music.
Yeah I think Johnny's poison was the Opiates/Pain Pills.. But as every addict will ever tell you, being on Pain Pills for very long periods of time usually leads to Heroin use eventually. Unless they choose the other direction which is getting clean
Nine inch nails Don't sing this now. Johnny was on opiates and yes he did hit the needle. Coming from an opiate addicts point of view, (5 yrs clean) its one of the hardest songs to hear and watch. You can't take back all the things you done in your life that hurt people. Tiny lies turn to rivers of pain. You are constantly hurting others. He was addicted to speed and the rest but. All addicts hurt themselves, friends, family even strangers. The extra level is June's just found out she had cancer again and hadn't told him before this video. She died 15 May 2003. Johnny worked day and night in the studio until his death 12th September 2003. He didn't want to be away from her for too long. O yeah Nine inch nails said it was no longer their song.
Nice reaction. Johnny Cash had so many great songs. This video at the end of his career was nominated for MTV awards and got him a new generation of fans.
I cry my eyes when I hear this. So did Trent Reznor.
This is the best cover ever recorded
From Union SC I truly appreciate your reaction to this, I do thank you, please stay safe and try to enjoy every day!
Johnny had a bad pill addiction ..his wife June helped him thru very hard times..she had a strong relationship with Jesus Christ...and johnny too became a true believer....and at the end he knew the only thing that matters is the Love and Forgiveness ..in Jesus Christ..who died for us and rose on the third day!!🤗🤗🎆🎆🎆
You know j.c that song and that video is just like closest to perfection you will ever get...I didn't knew J.C but after this I started to search info..and man he had a tough life but June was his backbone for sure..greetings from belgium
It doesn't get more real than Johnny Cash. ( R.I.P.)
Yeah man Johnny doesn't play. He always kept it real. Heavy shit.
I love your reaction. Johnny has a way of speaking directly to your soul.
Throughout someone's life, his life, with all the cover-ups, lies, wronging other people, addiction, and sinful acts that being a star does to people, he wanted to set it straight. This song gave him a way to confess his wrong doings in life to God and others before he died. This song was a very humbling song of repentance, that's probably why he chose this song to go out on. He's a legend that kept it real in the end.
His life, especially on the last extended chorus where the images speed up, passes before his eyes in this video. It's a sneak preview of our lives passing before our eyes in our final moments.
Do not believe for one second that man's salvation can ever be man-made. It can be found only on your knees before your Maker. All else is just trying to keep the Cool Kids from rejecting you.
A lot of it is about the destructive effects of drug addiction.
One of the most gut-wrenching songs I have heard😢
Johnny Cash was one of the greatest country musicians of all time. That was his wife June Carter Cash behind him. She was a very well regarded country musician herself. Their duets are some of the most powerful music ever recorded. Johnny said that she was the reason he had such a successful career as she stuck with him throughout his battle with addiction and a couple of prison sentences when he was young. My grandfather was acquainted with them for several years and he performed at their saloon/dance hall in the late 1960s to the late 1970s. I got a chance to meet them both when I was 7 and again when I was 10. My great uncle Robert on my grandmother's side performed with Johnny on 3 occasions and our family greatly respected them both. Johnny was also one who respected talent in many people he met and helped Charley Pride get started in the music business. My great uncle Co wrote parts of "The Snakes Crawl at Night". It was written by the 2 of them shortly after my great uncle went through a divorce which was released in 1966. The song is about him discovering his wife's infidelity.
That song gets to your soul
I have a feeling like all his other fans think this was his way of saying goodbye to his fans and it was awesome this video was actually nominated for the best male video of the year on the VMAs Justin Timberlake won the award he dedicated the award to Johnny Cash
Johnny said goodbye with a grand slam. The decade or so before this was recorded, he hadn’t had much of a career left.
It's so true. When we're kids we dream of all of the things we'll do when we get older. What we fail to realize is every year we get older so do those we love, those who raised us and our friends. Then you see that the older you get the more people you lose. Eventually, you realize that what really matters isn't what we built or acquired throughout life but the time we got to spend with those we love. The memories end up being what are priceless and irreplaceable.
The pain of regret is a helluvah of a drug.
It's been so many years, and I'm never in a state I can take this in and not cry like a fool. I honestly think I never will, and maybe that is not wrong at all....
This is one of my favorite songs....but to be covered by a legend saying goodbye makes it unbelievably amazing...tysm for you reaction
does that to everybody man... I am tearing up just thinking about it... I am 65 now and have no where the life he nor Trent had/have, but man did it ever speak to me and the stupid I went through and how with the help of God somehow got through the stupid to the other side.... God bless you and everybody else who has recently decided to watch this the 1st time, after 2 decades... it is that powerful. 20 years later, it still speaks to me. I can't watch it without breaking into tears. BTW, I'm a biker, not afraid of squat (too stupid I guess), including showing my emotions.
There will never be another Johnny Cash! To do this before you died as a goodbye... Then you hear it, and how the lyrics coming from his perspective sound like he's saying, no, how he's almost begging to go home. It's truly chilling!
And knowing he passed away only months after he recorded this track makes this song more powerful
Hurt was originally a nirvana song, but the way he covered it shortly before he passed is beautiful. And yes that was June with him
Be good to whoever you have left.
Such a beautiful and respectful reaction. Thanks for the wonderful tribute 💖🦋
One of the best covers of all time. It would be a kick for you to listen to the original, it is wildly different and also quite good. But the cover really does steal the show.
I am so enjoying watching videos of you 'youngsters' discovering 'our' music. Partly because I know what's coming and can watch it reach you as it did us. I paused this at the very beginning, so I hope someone warned you to have tissues ready. I have rarely seen anyone listen to this song and not find themselves weeping. "Hurt" is Johnny's life, but it is also OUR lives. We have each had regrets. So now I will watch this reach in and grab your heart as it does to almost everyone who hears it. We who grew up with Johnny (the Man in Black) know his history. He spent time in jail. He fought drugs and alcohol. He knew what it meant to hurt those he loved. He was super successful (his "empire of dirt") and then saw it fade. He was on his comeback when God took him home.
This was his goodbye…he touched the piano like a casket at the end…
Very respectful and caring reaction. Appreciate your thoughts
when the man comes around!
Another amazing song. I'd second this recommendation.
I think you cut the video a little short at the end. His closing the top of the piano is the same movement of closing a casket! Chills every time! Thank you for sharing and your comments! Love from Texas🤠🤠🤠
And that piano was never opened again after that shot. It just sat in that room until Johnny died.
tears at your heart and he is right everyone you love goes away in the end
A wonderful but incredibly sad song, he had it all, and ended with a lifetime of regrets, very, very sad.
If I could start again
A million miles away
I would KEEP myself
I would find a way❤
This song always puts a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes
Johnny meant every word
Generational talent right there!
The Man in Black - pure LEGEND! Rest in Paradise Johnny
I'm 30 years old my parents and most of my friends are gone from this world. Man this song gets me deep.
I love watching your expression to this song…you are really feeling the pain! Thank you for showing the reverence!
You would have never have guessed that young man in his 30s wrote the song. Trent Reznor wrote this song when he was in the throes of heroin addiction. It was originally released in the 90s by him and his band nine inch nails.
I must say that I never paid attention to this NIN song because I never truly understood it (you know, its drug addiction context) but, pfff, I still break whenever I listen to Cash’s cover because I could relate to him and his feelings that he so masterfully delivered here. And the videoclip is the last nail on that imaginary emotional context as my mind always drifts in remembrance of those dearest who left before
@3:39 I started feeling it last year. You lose your friends, family and eventually you're all thats left. Having 5000+ social media friends don't help here.
Johnny Cash, 'The Man in Black' who preformed in prisons, championed for all the downtrodden and broken among us...had a rough, rough life from the get-go. Despite great fame, His hurt was related to his past, and even self inflicted many times. This was his humble 'Goodbye' to us. One of a kind legend. ❤
the power of video when matched with a great song - art
Thank you Greg!! Honesty!!
This is a cover, but he made it a giant hit By changing the perspective of the original singer/songwriter
Johnny Cash knew the fact and reality of the old saying “Only one life, it will soon be passed, only what’s done for Christ will last.”
You could see his anguish along with the images of Christ being nailed to the cross knowing that his sins were some of the ones Jesus voluntarily sacrificed himself for, as he did for all of those who would repent of their sins and trust him his finished work on the cross.
Great song great reaction. Praying God’s best for you.
A very beautiful but heavy song, especially if you wasn't expecting it. Its written by Trent Reznor like if he was knowing in his subconcienceness that he was creating this treasure for Johnny to be performed.
Heavy duty stuff... very emotional.
This is actually a cover of the band 'Nine Inch Nail's original version. It seems to suit Johnny perfectly at that stage of his life. This was his goodbye song. If you have not heard him before, find something from when he was in his prime. So many great hits.
When Johnny shut that piano in shot, it was literally the last time he touched a keyboard. It was his own obituary
I get chokedup every time I listen to that song.
I love both versions of this song. Its one of my favorites of all time.
It was johnny and Justin Timberlake (Whos from Memphis) nominated at the MTV VIdeo Music awards. Justin won and when he got on stage Justin said
"This is a travesty, I grew up listening to Johnny cash"
Trent Reznor (NIN) wrote about an angry young man entering the world, Johnny took it and made it about an old man saying goodbye
real recognizes real, Hip Hop, rock, jazz, what have you. All put respect on Johnny's name
You are right. It was a very personal message.
You have to feel the hurt to feel the joy
I respect Johnny Cash so much I got to see him in concert in Omaha 1980 I loved how real he was...I watched his documentary and the Movie about him... This song brings tears to my eyes 😢 Absolutely this is his goodbye to his fans😞
This song may have originally come from Trent Reznor of Nine-inch Nails, but even he agrees that Cash made it his own.
This is a Nine Inch Nails cover
I agree with you bro, there's a message. For me, the meaning of the different references, is actually in the subtext.
The song was originally written by Trent Reznor on Nine Inch Nails, but after Johnny cave out with this cover, Trent said "This isn't my song anymore".
I grew up listening to Johnny Cash. Him closing the piano was like closing the end of a legend.
Bro, it’s a cover of a Nine Inch Nails song. They loved it as much as you, even said ‘its his song now’. Just discovered you and am a fan.
It was what I would call as an anthem of his life.
I can see you feel this song in you're heart. It's cool.
What an AMAZING song, a beautiful farewell. If you get a chance, you should watch Walk the Line. That will tell you the story of Johnny and June Cash.
His wife was June Carter and fun facts June wrote ring of fire for Johnny and he made it public for everyone to hear love Johnny and June 👌❤️
THE GREATEST MAN IN BLACK IN HISTORY, MR JOHNNY CASH!
He was covering another band, I forget their name. He sang "everyone I know goes away in the end," while his wife was watching him sing. She died before he did.
I’m so glad Trent gave this a second chance.
Much like Elvis…Johnny Cash had addictions, faults, shortcomings. Humans. Never perfect…but always seeking perfection. 😔😔😔🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
This is Johnny Cash's goodbye. He put everything he had left to make this video. Yes, that's June Carter Cash, she passed away shortly after this was made and he passed away a few months later.
So much more powerful if you have gone through addiction I used to listen to this in complete despair. I'm through that and unfortunately for many the only advice I have is don't give up, it's one of those annoying things you have to get so low some can't deal with it, I'm strong willed and minded and it nearly took me.