Him and his daughter watched this video after it was made and she couldnt stop crying and said to him "it sounds like your saying goodbye dad" and he replied "i am" , what a legend he was RIP Johnny Cash🎸
I remember one member of his family saying everyone was crying and he said "it's only a music video" there could be 2 versions of the story. 2 different viewings.
Johnny lost his eldest brother in a tragic accidrmt as a child, his father blamed him for living. Johnny became an addict when he entered the music industry in his twenties, his wife June got him clean. It was a life long struggle. When Johnny knew June was dying, he recorded this song. He died a couple months after she passed. This was his song to June.
You left out the part where he cheated on his first wife with June and then abandoned her and their children to go be with June. His first wife always gets over looked, but he hurt her more than anybody in his life. I'd like to think he was remorseful of that...
It is like my heart is breaking in a million pieces, every time I hear Johnny sing this song.......I honestly believe, he knew this was going to be his last performance, his final good-bye, & wanting to apologize, for anybody he may have hurt throughout his lifetime💔 💔💔 ***RIP JOHNNY CASH, YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTON*** 💔💔💔
When Trent Reznor (lead singer of Nine Inch Nails) heard Johnny’s cover, he said “it’s his song now”. RIP to a legend. For my money, the essential Johnny Cash song is the live version of Folsom Prison Blues. I’ve never been a country fan but Johnny has a special place on my play list. Edit: You had me revisit his discography....”God’s Going to Cut You Down” is the way to go for the channel.
@@tex10krunner that is correct. He said something about the way it sounded without video he didn't like it. He was still honored by Johnny covering it, but when he saw the video he realized it was Johnny's song.
Hey Brian, did you know this was the 2nd time another band had to consider their song to belong to Cash? When Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers heard Johnny's version of, "Won't Back Down" he said "Well, the song belongs to him now."
I saw June and Johnny Cash in 1968. They were touring military bases in Europe. He was scheduled to play the officers club, he said only if he also played the NCO (enlisted club)club. That is who he was.
When his wife June died he had a phone put in his room that was never plugged in and he spent hours every day “talking to June in heaven “. I hope I love someone that much before I die
That's his wife June Carter Cash on he stairs, a country star in her own right, she died soon after this was done and he followed a few months later, you want to check out the 2 of them singing "Jackson" which I saw once, they tear it up but good. Johhny Cash cannot be confined to one genre, the man is in the country hall of fame, rock and gospel hall of fame and songwriters hall of fame, he is the very definition of rebel.
For me personally this is the greatest cover song of all time. A absolute legend he will be missed forever. RIP to other legends that have passed away.
She died 3 months after the filming for the video and he died 4 months later. He did one last performance at the Carter ranch after she had passed and you can see how bad he was at that point as he was mostly blind and needed help getting setup.
Going to see my father on Feb. 9, 2023. February 10th is his 93rd birthday. He is the last of all his youth kin, and friends. Father has Great, great-grandsons, and daughters. Once he passes, I will be the last.
Johnny Cash was an addict. The woman in the video is his wife June Carter Cash, the love of his life. He inspired many country singers to pursue their dreams. In fact, Merle Haggard, another legendary country music singer was in prison when Johnny Cash came to play there. He decided to stay straight and pursue his musical career. Many musicians who do not sing country music were also huge fans of his. RIP Johnny Cash❤️😔
Deep reaction bro, Digging the passion, and appreciating the humility. Many regrets Johnny had, especially his early days addicted to heroin and all the misfortune that gets dragged in with that, this was his final goodbye. RIP Legend…Trent will always think of him, when he sings this song.
Your reaction was genuine, thank you for this video. He was addicted to drugs for most his life due to guilt of his brothers death had issues with his father who kinda faulted him for it. 😢 His wife helped him get clean the one on the steps. He felt like he wasted so much time being wasted on drugs if he could take back all the wasted time he would try not to stay clean, he also knew the Lord and wrestled with his walk and he died not too long after this video.
The lady in the photo was his mother, and the lady on the staircase was his second wife June Carter who passed away two or three months after this song was recorded, Johnny would pass away four months later
Nine Inch Nails wrote this song. Johnny made his own version. His wife and partner in crime died a shortly after this song and he passed a couple of months later. Legends. The Man in Black. They’re together in the great beyond.
Clint Logan. My husband died 13 years ago. I also talk to him every night, telling him I will never love again. He was my knight in shining armor, he was my everything. He still is and after he was gone, there will be no other. I'm still his till I depart.
I think with how crazy everything is in the world. We forget sometimes what is really important! Life is to short and all the mistakes we make sometimes it’s to late to fix them!
@@SwaggyReacts He DID play this song prior to doing this video for his daughter. Sge said to him....it sounds like you are saying goodbye to us~he said YES I AM. When Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails saw tgus video and heard his verson. He said this is no longer MY song~it belongs TO Johnny now. The woman you see in the frame on the wall wearing the red shirt that is HIS WIFE'S MOTHER who had passed on years ago. He chose to put her photo in the video because over the years they hsd become very close. His wife has died soon after this video came out. Johnny actually WAS VERY ILL while producing this video. He had dealt with depression in his life. Also he has been an alcoholic and addicted to pills earlier in his career. He'd also some time in jail and did a song about it and went back and did a CONCERT inside of the prison years later. That's why you see the jail reference of the cell doors closing in the video. You REALLY need to watch the movie Walk The Line thats about his life. Walk The Line is a famous song but actually June Carter Cash had written it PRIOR to their marriage. As you can tell~I'm a long time fan of his. I'm probably one of your older people here cuz I'm an older biker lady in my mid 50s. So I grew up listening to a lotta different music but I REALLY loved his music a lot. I felt connected to a lot of his story in a way. I've dealt with jails & prisons since I'M 15. IT'S A LONG STORY & not for here but luckily I managed to never do time on 3 felonies. Two would've put me onto death row~IF I didn't have friends thankfully. NOW I'm an international prisoner advocate for OVER 35 YRS. I deal with every level of the system from my juveys to my folks on death row. I'm also clean now from ALL illegal drugs~FOR 19 YEARS. So yeah...I totally related to his same struggles in life. He was a TRULY great artist and SO was his wife June. People say that his multiple diseases killed him. But honestly it is the truth that after your partner youve been with for decades leaves you...they say you die OF a broken heart. I REALLY DO believe that in part that is what happened here. It happens a lot with elderly people, they don't even make it through the first year after the loss of their spouses. Johnny did not even make it 6 months without June. Anyway PLEASE watch the movie cuz it's great and you'll learn to appreciate a lot more of his music AND get to see how some of the industry worked back then also. Peace love and good music always 😉❤😎🤘
This song was originally written and performed by Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails). It was about the battles of drug addiction. When sung by Johnny the lyrics take on somewhat of a different meaning.
Somewhat, but mostly cuz Johnny has the benefit of recovery and looking back on it after years. He was not only an alcoholic, he was also addicted to drugs. Thankfully his wife essentially forced him to get clean.... more than once.
Aunt June died first. Yes he was addicted to drugs early on in his life this is a song of regret. Trent Reznor said i was born to write it Johnny was born to sing it. He gave it to Johnny he said its not mine anymore. that is aunt June his wife on the stairs. i visit his grave once a month nothing is more humbling than standing in the presence of greatness. It is a NIN song but trent gave it to Johnny.
This song is very personal for me, really tugs at my soul. This was one of my mom's favorite songs and spoke too true to her life experience in her later years. She died earlier this year followed shortly thereafter by my step dad and I am still currently struggling greatly both emotionally and financially. My mom born in 1947 and was from a rural farming background and came to the SF East Bay area with her family (her dad was a machinist) at around age 7. She was the oldest of 6 in a very disfunctional and abusive but also loving family. Yes I said both abusive and loving, definitely full of mental illness. If you think that's not possible and don't understand then please keep it to yourself! She was an original hippy who was an artist and sometimes modal and eventual part time math coach who was in some art shows but never found much success in life, and experienced a lot of painful loss and then long term disability. My mom was too often abused (as were her siblings) as a child by mentally ill parents who also went out of their way to help her pursue own passions, and knowing them I am convinced also truly loved her. My mom was later badly hurt by many in life including I am ashamed to say myself at times, but also badly hurt a few people she loved herself as well, lived a life of too much pain and poverty but also beauty, gardening, adventure, art and poetry, and also loved and cared very deeply for many and was deeply loved by many, helped many, helped to save some, and had an angelic beautiful heart. Most of those she knew and loved deeply died prematurely and most of the rest passed as well in the years before she finally died at the age of 75. My mom's ex husband (they divorced when I was 3) whom she remained friends with even after he eventually re-married and who helped raise me after my dad left when I was 7, was a letter carrier and old soul, loyal and kind, mostly quite but passionate with a it to say when he wanted to and felt the need, adventurer and independent thinker, non commercially successful artist, and original thinker and original SF State Drop-out Hippy like my mom. He died later the same month as her, age 75 as well. R.I.P. to them and to Johnny!
The woman in the picture on the wall was his mother. The woman on the stairs was his wife. Early in his career he was addicted to pills and alcohol. He kicked those habits. The house he is looking in is the house he grew up in. Its in Arkansas. Johnny Cash is a truly rare artist in that he stayed true to himself. He didn't sell out to the establishment Nashville sound. He made his own sound and he is sorely missed.
I've been watching quite a few of these "Hurt" reactions and they are so very similar in their effect on the listener. This song forces the listener to think about things they usually are trying NOT to think about because it's driving the deep questions right into the heart of those hearing it. Meaning "Why are we here?" "Where am I going?" "How should I be living?" What have I been living for and how?" "What is really Important in life?". Then when they are done it's so often silence and difficulty describing what they are thinking or feeling. "Hurt" is an "Anointed" song and Johnny's video especially.
This video was shot in February of 2003. June died a few months later in May 2003 and he died a few months after that in September 2003. This was a fitting farewell to an icon. RIP Johnny.
Your reaction was so pure and genuine💗....and that's how almost everyone reactions to this masterpiece the amazing Johnny Cash gave us before his death. He conveyed such emotion through his voice and the visuals combined, a rare and hauntingly beautiful talent.....I still cry every time i watch this. He is still 'The Man In Black' and always will be. R.I.P. 💗
It's almost impossible to describe just how big of a Super Star Johnny Cash was. Country Music Star, Pop Music Star and Gospel Music Star, along with being a Movie Star. BUT, you have it right... all that in the end was worth nothing to him. In spite of all that Stardom, he was an alcoholic, drug addict, spent time in jail and beat his wife so he was all too human. The flashback clips don't come near to showing how big he was or show how much emotional pain he was in for most of his life. Thank You for your reaction!! I'm wondering if this one song will have more impact on more people than all his other music combined because here, he's teaching of so much about life...
Every thought expressed was spot on. You got it even before you set it to play! Raw emotion and honesty is what he brought to this cover and you felt it in your core! Great reaction - thanks!
His songs always had this fascinating twinge of darkness. At the end of his life, I view this as a gift to his fans. The meaning hits everyone. Everyone understands pain loneliness and regret. When you have reached the twilight of your life, it's ten fold.
There’s a movie, Walk The Line. But their story went on past the movie until the day Miss June passed and Johnny followed her. His hurt actually started as a child. His brother died and his father blamed him for it. Said it should have been Johnny
First time watching (SUBSCRIBED). Johnny Cash was a household name thru good & bad moments. This is a cover by Nine Inch Nails. He lived a full artistic life. Married to June Carter-Cash. June was from the famous music Carter family [Appalatia USA] They lost a child then both of their moms, they continued to perform until he became "unrelateable" in music industry after over 50 years. The "old" woman in photo on the wall was his beloved mother. His dear wife is in the porch rocking chair, June passed away after this video was released and then Johnny joined her shortly after her due to complications from diabetes.
His wife was gone already... This was the last song he recorded. It was released after he was gone. One of the most memorable songs ever recorded... RIP Johnny
This video was filmed in the House of Cash (Johnny Cash museum) near his hometown. He broke down in the middle of the filming, and started crying. He decided to leave it in the video. Live to Survive!
Trent Reznor, of NIN did indeed write this. He wrote about a young man hooked on the needle watching his life spiral out of control. Johnny made the song about an old man realizing everything he accumulated throughout his life was just dirt, dust at the end of things, worth less than nothing. Don't mistake things for what's really valuable in life. If you let the people that you love go, they will. Being alone sucks, especially at the end. His wife, the lady on the stairs, died 3 months after this video was made. 4 months after that, Johnny joined her in the endless sleep. The pic on the wall is his mom. Johnny Cash was indeed addicted to drugs, although not to the needle; pills, uppers and downers and alcohol were his demons.
I thought June died like 3 months after this then he passed 6 months after her. When he was younger had drug addiction. My favorites include Ring of Fire, Folsom Prison Blues, Walk the Line, One Piece at a Time, If I were a Carpenter( duet with June), Boy Named Sue,
So glad to get your ❤️ after 1yr! Watched again. Hope you had a Wonderful Christmas☃️✝️🎄 and Happy New Year🎉 to you and your Family. You've got a beautiful soul my friend! 🙏💜✌️
This Song is his Goodbye to the World and the Music! RIP June and Johnny Cash! Your Music will continue far longer than the Musician and the Fans who Enjoi it!
The woman in the picture was his mother. The woman on the stairs was June Carter-Cash, his wife. In his younger years he was addicted to drugs and even arrested for them. Later in life he got Diabetes and had to take insulin, which is in the contrast of his voice. Great reaction.
Because this song always tears me up when I hear it, I'm curious about what reactors think of it. I've watched probably a couple dozen of reactions and believe me that speechless feeling is something 99% of them have. You are not alone brotha
I heard that when the guy from nine inch nails heard this cover he said "this isn't our song anymore this is Johnny's song now" because he was so moved by it.
I don't care if your 20 40 60 or 80 years old. You watch this video and it'll make you think about your life the ones you love and the people in your life who has passed.. Johnny Cash is a master story teller..
Johnny Cash loved and cared about everyone. There was pictures of his wife in the song, Hurt. Her name was, June Carter Cash. Rest In Peace Johnny (A true legend).
that was his wife on the stairs she wasn't supposed to be in the video but when she was caught on it they left her in. He had a ruff life and in his younger days did some ruff things but she came along and changed his life. She was his angel and she died just days after this video was made he died months later. Some do say that he died of a broken heart.
You should do the drugs don't work, by the verve. The song is not about recreational drugs. It's inspired, though not about, the death of his father, with a blood clot and his father in law of cancer
The video was recorded in February of 2003. His daughter, on seeing a preview of the video, said to him it sounded like he was saying goodbye, he replied that he was. June Carter Cash, his 2nd wife, is the woman sat on the stairs in the video; also a singer in her own right who toured with him and sang with him on several songs. She had come down to check on her husband that day as his health was declining. 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. It was June that Cash attributed to rescuing him from his drug and Alcohol addiction a theme of the song. Carter is the person played by Reese Witherspoon alongside Joaquin Phoenix, in the biopic of them: Walk the line. Johnny Cash's star had 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 and American Recordings more of a Rap, Punk and Metal label sought Cash to record for their label, and offered Cash complete artistic freedom. With them his career revived and he brought out 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, You may recognise the Title Track too, was released in November of 2002, and he was still working on his final Album right up to the end and that was released posthumously.
YEAH SWAG SO WHAT YOU SEE IN THE PHOTOS ARE HIS GRANDMOTHER, MOTHER, AND OF COURSE HIS BEAUTIFUL WIFE JUNE CARTER :) THIS WHOLE SONG WILL BE SO TIMELESS AND THAT'S WHY TRENT HAD SAID THAT THIS WAS JOHNNY'S SONG. HE DIED VERYYYYY BROKENHEARTED ONCE JUNE WENT, HE KNEWWW IT WAS TIME! :( HE FLASHES BACK ON HIS LIFE WITH DRUGS, HEROIN, AND THINGS. SUCH AN AWESOME AWESOME PERSON AND TALENT SWAG, HE WOULD PLAY FOR THE PRISONERS AROUND THE COUNTRY, I.E FOLSOM PRISON, SAN QUENTIN :) ANYWAYYYY R.I.PARADISE TO THE GR88888 JOHNNY CASH :( HE DID SO MANYYYY GR8 SONGS: I WALK THE LINE, THE MAN IN BLACK, A BOY NAMED SUE, COCAINE BLUES :) HOPE THAT HELPS YOU SOME :)
His mom in the picture had passed away just before this song. He was very tight with her. The woman on the stairs is his wife. He passed away a couple months after this song and she passed away a couple months after him.
I didn't know this song was so sad; so powerful. He has this other song I do actually remember, called "I've Been Everywhere, Man." It is a fun song, but still very powerful. 🖤
Legend indeed thing with getting old your friends die around you friends family people in your town things slow down never ending blood test with needles...
You are someone else I am still right here This is a reference to the fact that when/if you come out of addiction, you are at the same level of maturity as when you started -- even if decades have gone by. The people you know who aren't addicts mature and change and go on with their lives while you're trapped where you were when you took that first drink/hit/snort.
There's no human value in a stack of cash--it's DIRT! If you're chasing a dream, realize what it is, in the end...dirt. Find someone you love to share the chase with and EVERYBODY WINS!
Him and his daughter watched this video after it was made and she couldnt stop crying and said to him "it sounds like your saying goodbye dad" and he replied "i am" , what a legend he was RIP Johnny Cash🎸
I remember one member of his family saying everyone was crying and he said "it's only a music video" there could be 2 versions of the story. 2 different viewings.
Like , Freddie Mercury with "Those were the days of our lives"
Johnny lost his eldest brother in a tragic accidrmt as a child, his father blamed him for living. Johnny became an addict when he entered the music industry in his twenties, his wife June got him clean. It was a life long struggle. When Johnny knew June was dying, he recorded this song. He died a couple months after she passed. This was his song to June.
Not quite true, but it sounds good
@jamesfitzgerald6636. What's not true about it?
You left out the part where he cheated on his first wife with June and then abandoned her and their children to go be with June. His first wife always gets over looked, but he hurt her more than anybody in his life. I'd like to think he was remorseful of that...
@@let_your_weird_light_shine_2.0 It's like you didn't even listen to the song.
The fact that you even considered this this because your Mother listened to him is enough for me to subscribe. Godspeed.
It is like my heart is breaking in a million pieces, every time I hear Johnny sing this song.......I honestly believe, he knew this was going to be his last performance, his final good-bye, & wanting to apologize, for anybody he may have hurt throughout his lifetime💔 💔💔 ***RIP JOHNNY CASH, YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTON*** 💔💔💔
When Trent Reznor (lead singer of Nine Inch Nails) heard Johnny’s cover, he said “it’s his song now”. RIP to a legend.
For my money, the essential Johnny Cash song is the live version of Folsom Prison Blues. I’ve never been a country fan but Johnny has a special place on my play list. Edit: You had me revisit his discography....”God’s Going to Cut You Down” is the way to go for the channel.
Trent said that after he watched the video and not his first listen. Trent did not like the version at first . Look it up
@@tex10krunner that is correct. He said something about the way it sounded without video he didn't like it. He was still honored by Johnny covering it, but when he saw the video he realized it was Johnny's song.
I've heard others say that Trent said it was like losing a girlfriend. And really, if Cash wanted your girlfriend, you let her go.
Hey Brian, did you know this was the 2nd time another band had to consider their song to belong to Cash? When Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers heard Johnny's version of, "Won't Back Down" he said "Well, the song belongs to him now."
I saw June and Johnny Cash in 1968. They were touring military bases in Europe. He was scheduled to play the officers club, he said only if he also played the NCO (enlisted club)club. That is who he was.
His hands stroking the closed piano keys. That was him saying goodbye. 😔😢😭
Like you'd give a coffin a final touch goodbye. 💔😔💔
There was one channel I watched, they actually laughed at his shaking hands when he poured the glass of wine...
@@beanie8955 Glad I missed that one. I would have cried.
@@beanie8955 wtf?! who would do that
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When his wife June died he had a phone put in his room that was never plugged in and he spent hours every day “talking to June in heaven “. I hope I love someone that much before I die
Don't apologize for having emotions. You're human my brother.
If you don't feel emotions while watching this, you are not human
That's his wife June Carter Cash on he stairs, a country star in her own right, she died soon after this was done and he followed a few months later, you want to check out the 2 of them singing "Jackson" which I saw once, they tear it up but good. Johhny Cash cannot be confined to one genre, the man is in the country hall of fame, rock and gospel hall of fame and songwriters hall of fame, he is the very definition of rebel.
For me personally this is the greatest cover song of all time. A absolute legend he will be missed forever. RIP to other legends that have passed away.
He passed away 4 months after his wife June passed. He leaves it all out & knows this is last song for him. He died of a broken heart.
She died 3 months after the filming for the video and he died 4 months later. He did one last performance at the Carter ranch after she had passed and you can see how bad he was at that point as he was mostly blind and needed help getting setup.
@@TheUserid82 you really suggest me watching that. He's gone already, in the way he wants to be. Age is not an excuse for anything.
Going to see my father on Feb. 9, 2023. February 10th is his 93rd birthday. He is the last of all his youth kin, and friends. Father has Great, great-grandsons, and daughters. Once he passes, I will be the last.
Johnny Cash was an addict. The woman in the video is his wife June Carter Cash, the love of his life. He inspired many country singers to pursue their dreams. In fact, Merle Haggard, another legendary country music singer was in prison when Johnny Cash came to play there. He decided to stay straight and pursue his musical career. Many musicians who do not sing country music were also huge fans of his. RIP Johnny Cash❤️😔
He closes the piano like he knows he's never going to play it again.
You are not human if you don't have a tear in your eye. Every time i hear this...i well up
I cry every time I hear this song!
Deep reaction bro, Digging the passion, and appreciating the humility.
Many regrets Johnny had, especially his early days addicted to heroin and all the misfortune that gets dragged in with that, this was his final goodbye.
RIP Legend…Trent will always think of him, when he sings this song.
First lady was his mom. The second was June (in the video), his wife.She died 3 months later. He died 3 months after.
Your reaction was genuine, thank you for this video. He was addicted to drugs for most his life due to guilt of his brothers death had issues with his father who kinda faulted him for it. 😢 His wife helped him get clean the one on the steps. He felt like he wasted so much time being wasted on drugs if he could take back all the wasted time he would try not to stay clean, he also knew the Lord and wrestled with his walk and he died not too long after this video.
Cash's best song ever -- the arrangement, vocals, and building crescendo at the end - perfection.
The lady in the photo was his mother, and the lady on the staircase was his second wife June Carter who passed away two or three months after this song was recorded, Johnny would pass away four months later
Nine Inch Nails wrote this song. Johnny made his own version. His wife and partner in crime died a shortly after this song and he passed a couple of months later. Legends. The Man in Black. They’re together in the great beyond.
Clint Logan. My husband died 13 years ago. I also talk to him every night, telling him I will never love again. He was my knight in shining armor, he was my everything. He still is and after he was gone, there will be no other. I'm still his till I depart.
A song of regret. Johnny lived a hard life and was facing the end. The message, if you're young, You can fix it. It's not to late !
I think with how crazy everything is in the world. We forget sometimes what is really important! Life is to short and all the mistakes we make sometimes it’s to late to fix them!
The woman on the stairs is his wife June .
Listen to it again by yourself without pausing it. The tears might come then.
P.S.
That's his wife in the video with him. She was still alive at the time.
Maika you was right thank god i wasn’t live lol 😂
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@@SwaggyReacts He DID play this song prior to doing this video for his daughter. Sge said to him....it sounds like you are saying goodbye to us~he said YES I AM. When Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails saw tgus video and heard his verson. He said this is no longer MY song~it belongs TO Johnny now. The woman you see in the frame on the wall wearing the red shirt that is HIS WIFE'S MOTHER who had passed on years ago. He chose to put her photo in the video because over the years they hsd become very close. His wife has died soon after this video came out. Johnny actually WAS VERY ILL while producing this video. He had dealt with depression in his life. Also he has been an alcoholic and addicted to pills earlier in his career. He'd also some time in jail and did a song about it and went back and did a CONCERT inside of the prison years later. That's why you see the jail reference of the cell doors closing in the video. You REALLY need to watch the movie Walk The Line thats about his life. Walk The Line is a famous song but actually June Carter Cash had written it PRIOR to their marriage. As you can tell~I'm a long time fan of his. I'm probably one of your older people here cuz I'm an older biker lady in my mid 50s. So I grew up listening to a lotta different music but I REALLY loved his music a lot. I felt connected to a lot of his story in a way. I've dealt with jails & prisons since I'M 15. IT'S A LONG STORY & not for here but luckily I managed to never do time on 3 felonies. Two would've put me onto death row~IF I didn't have friends thankfully. NOW I'm an international prisoner advocate for OVER 35 YRS. I deal with every level of the system from my juveys to my folks on death row. I'm also clean now from ALL illegal drugs~FOR 19 YEARS. So yeah...I totally related to his same struggles in life. He was a TRULY great artist and SO was his wife June. People say that his multiple diseases killed him. But honestly it is the truth that after your partner youve been with for decades leaves you...they say you die OF a broken heart. I REALLY DO believe that in part that is what happened here. It happens a lot with elderly people, they don't even make it through the first year after the loss of their spouses. Johnny did not even make it 6 months without June. Anyway PLEASE watch the movie cuz it's great and you'll learn to appreciate a lot more of his music AND get to see how some of the industry worked back then also. Peace love and good music always 😉❤😎🤘
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This song was originally written and performed by Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails). It was about the battles of drug addiction. When sung by Johnny the lyrics take on somewhat of a different meaning.
Somewhat, but mostly cuz Johnny has the benefit of recovery and looking back on it after years. He was not only an alcoholic, he was also addicted to drugs. Thankfully his wife essentially forced him to get clean.... more than once.
The lady in red in the photo is his Mom. The lady with the long hair was his wife June Carter Cash.both died within a year of this video
Powerful video by a legend… RIP
It’s so human that everyone can connect on this song.
Aunt June died first. Yes he was addicted to drugs early on in his life this is a song of regret. Trent Reznor said i was born to write it Johnny was born to sing it. He gave it to Johnny he said its not mine anymore. that is aunt June his wife on the stairs. i visit his grave once a month nothing is more humbling than standing in the presence of greatness. It is a NIN song but trent gave it to Johnny.
This song is very personal for me, really tugs at my soul. This was one of my mom's favorite songs and spoke too true to her life experience in her later years. She died earlier this year followed shortly thereafter by my step dad and I am still currently struggling greatly both emotionally and financially.
My mom born in 1947 and was from a rural farming background and came to the SF East Bay area with her family (her dad was a machinist) at around age 7. She was the oldest of 6 in a very disfunctional and abusive but also loving family. Yes I said both abusive and loving, definitely full of mental illness. If you think that's not possible and don't understand then please keep it to yourself!
She was an original hippy who was an artist and sometimes modal and eventual part time math coach who was in some art shows but never found much success in life, and experienced a lot of painful loss and then long term disability. My mom was too often abused (as were her siblings) as a child by mentally ill parents who also went out of their way to help her pursue own passions, and knowing them I am convinced also truly loved her. My mom was later badly hurt by many in life including I am ashamed to say myself at times, but also badly hurt a few people she loved herself as well, lived a life of too much pain and poverty but also beauty, gardening, adventure, art and poetry, and also loved and cared very deeply for many and was deeply loved by many, helped many, helped to save some, and had an angelic beautiful heart. Most of those she knew and loved deeply died prematurely and most of the rest passed as well in the years before she finally died at the age of 75.
My mom's ex husband (they divorced when I was 3) whom she remained friends with even after he eventually re-married and who helped raise me after my dad left when I was 7, was a letter carrier and old soul, loyal and kind, mostly quite but passionate with a it to say when he wanted to and felt the need, adventurer and independent thinker, non commercially successful artist, and original thinker and original SF State Drop-out Hippy like my mom. He died later the same month as her, age 75 as well. R.I.P. to them and to Johnny!
The woman in the picture on the wall was his mother. The woman on the stairs was his wife. Early in his career he was addicted to pills and alcohol. He kicked those habits. The house he is looking in is the house he grew up in. Its in Arkansas. Johnny Cash is a truly rare artist in that he stayed true to himself. He didn't sell out to the establishment Nashville sound. He made his own sound and he is sorely missed.
I've been watching quite a few of these "Hurt" reactions and they are so very similar in their effect on the listener. This song forces the
listener to think about things they usually are trying NOT to think about because it's driving the deep questions right into the heart of
those hearing it. Meaning "Why are we here?" "Where am I going?" "How should I be living?" What have I been living for and how?" "What is
really Important in life?". Then when they are done it's so often silence and difficulty describing what they are thinking or feeling. "Hurt" is an "Anointed" song and Johnny's video especially.
This video was shot in February of 2003. June died a few months later in May 2003 and he died a few months after that in September 2003. This was a fitting farewell to an icon. RIP Johnny.
Dude best cover song ever. I'm a 40 year old man that tears up everytime I hear that song
Your reaction was so pure and genuine💗....and that's how almost everyone reactions to this masterpiece the amazing Johnny Cash gave us before his death. He conveyed such emotion through his voice and the visuals combined, a rare and hauntingly beautiful talent.....I still cry every time i watch this.
He is still 'The Man In Black' and always will be. R.I.P. 💗
Trent Reznor may have written the song, but Johnny Cash made it
R.I.P GOAT 🙏🙏📿
It's almost impossible to describe just how big of a Super Star Johnny Cash was. Country Music Star, Pop Music Star and Gospel Music Star, along with being a Movie Star. BUT, you have it right... all that in the end was worth nothing to him. In spite of all that Stardom, he was an alcoholic, drug addict, spent time in jail and beat his wife so he was all too human. The flashback clips don't come near to showing how big he was or show how much emotional pain he was in for most of his life. Thank You for your reaction!! I'm wondering if this one song will have more impact on more people than all his other music combined because here, he's teaching of so much about life...
Johnny cash has seen and done it all. Wonderful storyteller. He’s telling of loss and redemption
Every thought expressed was spot on. You got it even before you set it to play! Raw emotion and honesty is what he brought to this cover and you felt it in your core! Great reaction - thanks!
Watched a ton of reactions to this song and this is by far the best I’ve seen
Thank you
There’s a good movie called Walk The Line, about his early days and his career, and yes he did drugs and landed him in jail according to the film
That was his wife standing on the stairs next to him. She died shortly after.
His songs always had this fascinating twinge of darkness. At the end of his life, I view this as a gift to his fans. The meaning hits everyone. Everyone understands pain loneliness and regret. When you have reached the twilight of your life, it's ten fold.
Yes Johnny Cash was an addict for many years . His wife June helped him get clean and sober.
Love your video. Growing up my Dad played Johnny Cash all of the time. I didn't appreciate it then but I do now. Please listen to I Walk the Line.
Hey my Dad too I love my dad who is now with Johnny smiling down from heaven ❤️
There’s a movie, Walk The Line. But their story went on past the movie until the day Miss June passed and Johnny followed her.
His hurt actually started as a child. His brother died and his father blamed him for it. Said it should have been Johnny
First time watching (SUBSCRIBED). Johnny Cash was a household name thru good & bad moments. This is a cover by Nine Inch Nails. He lived a full artistic life. Married to June Carter-Cash. June was from the famous music Carter family [Appalatia USA] They lost a child then both of their moms, they continued to perform until he became "unrelateable" in music industry after over 50 years. The "old" woman in photo on the wall was his beloved mother. His dear wife is in the porch rocking chair, June passed away after this video was released and then Johnny joined her shortly after her due to complications from diabetes.
Dr Quinn was his doctor, he flew to Jamaica to hospice, I was nurse. He told me o was an angel. Most beautiful exit ever.
I was lucky to grow up listening to Johnny Cash. Thanks Mom and Dad!!!!!
It's an amalgam. Pure Genuine good.
He put his loved ones (mainly his wife June Carter) through a lot of shit with his addictions. There's a lifetime of pain and regret in his voice.
There is a pain so deep you go numb And can't feel anything to it all comes down at one time this is true pain,
That's June his wife.. She passed. The Song was Finnish,3 months later Johnny Died.. this song fit his Life..😢
His wife was gone already... This was the last song he recorded.
It was released after he was gone.
One of the most memorable songs ever recorded...
RIP Johnny
This video was filmed in the House of Cash (Johnny Cash museum) near his hometown. He broke down in the middle of the filming, and started crying. He decided to leave it in the video.
Live to Survive!
Trent Reznor, of NIN did indeed write this. He wrote about a young man hooked on the needle watching his life spiral out of control. Johnny made the song about an old man realizing everything he accumulated throughout his life was just dirt, dust at the end of things, worth less than nothing.
Don't mistake things for what's really valuable in life. If you let the people that you love go, they will. Being alone sucks, especially at the end.
His wife, the lady on the stairs, died 3 months after this video was made. 4 months after that, Johnny joined her in the endless sleep. The pic on the wall is his mom.
Johnny Cash was indeed addicted to drugs, although not to the needle; pills, uppers and downers and alcohol were his demons.
Your reaction is all we need ...we're all human in the end ..
I thought June died like 3 months after this then he passed 6 months after her. When he was younger had drug addiction. My favorites include Ring of Fire, Folsom Prison Blues, Walk the Line, One Piece at a Time, If I were a Carpenter( duet with June), Boy Named Sue,
So glad to get your ❤️ after 1yr! Watched again. Hope you had a Wonderful Christmas☃️✝️🎄 and Happy New Year🎉 to you and your Family. You've got a beautiful soul my friend! 🙏💜✌️
Pic on wall in beginning is his mother. Story of his life from humble beginnings to loss of his youth. That is his wife standing there.
If you wanna understand Cash... start with "Walk the Line" movie
I didn’t go to the theater but I saw it eventually. It was a much better movie than I thought it’d be.
This Song is his Goodbye to the World and the Music! RIP June and Johnny Cash! Your Music will continue far longer than the Musician and the Fans who Enjoi it!
The woman in the picture was his mother. The woman on the stairs was June Carter-Cash, his wife. In his younger years he was addicted to drugs and even arrested for them. Later in life he got Diabetes and had to take insulin, which is in the contrast of his voice. Great reaction.
Because this song always tears me up when I hear it, I'm curious about what reactors think of it. I've watched probably a couple dozen of reactions and believe me that speechless feeling is something 99% of them have. You are not alone brotha
I heard that when the guy from nine inch nails heard this cover he said "this isn't our song anymore this is Johnny's song now" because he was so moved by it.
I don't care if your 20 40 60 or 80 years old. You watch this video and it'll make you think about your life the ones you love and the people in your life who has passed.. Johnny Cash is a master story teller..
There is no hiding from this song. :)
If you're a human being, it will get you, each and every time.
POWERFUL - no other way to say it! A Legend among Legends!
Johnny Cash loved and cared about everyone. There was pictures of his wife in the song, Hurt. Her name was, June Carter Cash. Rest In Peace Johnny (A true legend).
Everyone knows loss, regret, pain, and loneliness.... We really are one people..
that was his wife on the stairs she wasn't supposed to be in the video but when she was caught on it they left her in. He had a ruff life and in his younger days did some ruff things but she came along and changed his life. She was his angel and she died just days after this video was made he died months later. Some do say that he died of a broken heart.
You should do the drugs don't work, by the verve. The song is not about recreational drugs. It's inspired, though not about, the death of his father, with a blood clot and his father in law of cancer
You are not wrong. This song just brings people together.
I got you on all the music knowledge. I was in the industry for a while. Music is my life. All genres.
The video was recorded in February of 2003. His daughter, on seeing a preview of the video, said to him it sounded like he was saying goodbye, he replied that he was. June Carter Cash, his 2nd wife, is the woman sat on the stairs in the video; also a singer in her own right who toured with him and sang with him on several songs. She had come down to check on her husband that day as his health was declining. 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.
It was June that Cash attributed to rescuing him from his drug and Alcohol addiction a theme of the song. Carter is the person played by Reese Witherspoon alongside Joaquin Phoenix, in the biopic of them: Walk the line.
Johnny Cash's star had 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 and American Recordings more of a Rap, Punk and Metal label sought Cash to record for their label, and offered Cash complete artistic freedom. With them his career revived and he brought out 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, You may recognise the Title Track too, was released in November of 2002, and he was still working on his final Album right up to the end and that was released posthumously.
I live this song , And know how he felt fully, understand everything of this song,
If this song doesn't make you emotional, maybe shed a tear ...
You don't have a Soul ..!
Nice reation man !! 👍
Johnny love Holy God!!!!
Johnny Cashs💕💕💕
I met Johnny Cash.
YEAH SWAG SO WHAT YOU SEE IN THE PHOTOS ARE HIS GRANDMOTHER, MOTHER, AND OF COURSE HIS BEAUTIFUL WIFE JUNE CARTER :) THIS WHOLE SONG WILL BE SO TIMELESS AND THAT'S WHY TRENT HAD SAID THAT THIS WAS JOHNNY'S SONG. HE DIED VERYYYYY BROKENHEARTED ONCE JUNE WENT, HE KNEWWW IT WAS TIME! :( HE FLASHES BACK ON HIS LIFE WITH DRUGS, HEROIN, AND THINGS. SUCH AN AWESOME AWESOME PERSON AND TALENT SWAG, HE WOULD PLAY FOR THE PRISONERS AROUND THE COUNTRY, I.E FOLSOM PRISON, SAN QUENTIN :) ANYWAYYYY R.I.PARADISE TO THE GR88888 JOHNNY CASH :( HE DID SO MANYYYY GR8 SONGS: I WALK THE LINE, THE MAN IN BLACK, A BOY NAMED SUE, COCAINE BLUES :) HOPE THAT HELPS YOU SOME :)
His mom in the picture had passed away just before this song. He was very tight with her.
The woman on the stairs is his wife. He passed away a couple months after this song and she passed away a couple months after him.
9:56 that's his wife who came down to check on him while making the video and they kept it in. She died a couple of months later.
One of the few instances where a cover is so much better than the original.
I didn't know this song was so sad; so powerful. He has this other song I do actually remember, called "I've Been Everywhere, Man." It is a fun song, but still very powerful. 🖤
It doesn't matter ... Johnny owns this song.. the emotion is real..............................
It hit you as a human, We have a lot of different experiences. Song it is about the struggle we face all.
Legend indeed thing with getting old your friends die around you friends family people in your town things slow down never ending blood test with needles...
First time subscriber to your channel. This video is intense and I can barely get through it without ugly crying. Thank you for your reaction!
You are someone else
I am still right here
This is a reference to the fact that when/if you come out of addiction, you are at the same level of maturity as when you started -- even if decades have gone by.
The people you know who aren't addicts mature and change and go on with their lives while you're trapped where you were when you took that first drink/hit/snort.
There's no human value in a stack of cash--it's DIRT! If you're chasing a dream, realize what it is, in the end...dirt. Find someone you love to share the chase with and EVERYBODY WINS!
That's his mom in the picture when he's first singing about how everyone he loves goes away in the end...
I cried on this one. Long live the man in black
Rick Rubin actually produced that video and it is a tearjerker for sure 😥
This shit makes me cry every time rip the cash
This was his farewell song the very last song he sung and yes He was talking about is family and June Carter the love of his life
Thank you for sharing your heart with us. Lost a very dear Friend yesterday, I needed this.