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Johnny Cash - Hurt

Details on the Track: 
Album: Track 2 on American IV: The Man Comes Around
Producer : Rick Rubin
Recorded : 2002
Mellotron, organ and piano: Benmont Tench
Released : March 2003
Producer: Rick Rubin
Composer: Trent Reznor
Cover recording of: Hurt
Acoustic guitar: Mike Campbell , Smokey Hormel
Length : 3:38
Lyricist: Trent Reznor
Genre : Country, Rock

Hurt - in Despair 

Verse 1
I hurt myself today - Injecting himself with drugs
To see if I still feel - Creates the pain
I focus on the pain - Tries to see if he can feel it
The only thing that's real - No other feeling like drugs
The needle tears a hole - When the needle pierces the skin
The old familiar sting - The feeling of the needle in your arm + Old Familiar - been doing it for years
Try to kill it all away - Takes the drugs to try and forget the memories/his past
But I remember everything - Drugs aren't working

[Chorus]
What have I become - Looking at what he's become/what he is
My sweetest friend - His Mother
Everyone I know Goes away in the end - His Mother Died
And you could have it all - Experience his Emotion/Pain
My empire of dirt - When he dies he cant take anything with him. His life/history is dirt to him
I will let you down - Message to his Kids/Family and/or His Fans
I will make you hurt

Verse 2
I wear this crown of thorns - Religious Metaphor - Jesus on the cross (Crown of Thorns)
Upon my liars chair - Fake - Hes a fake/phony - Not what he says he is
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time - As you get older
The feelings disappear - The less you feel
You are someone else
I am still right here

[Chorus]
What have I become - Looking at what he's become/what he is
My sweetest friend - His Mother
Everyone I know Goes away in the end - His Wife (When she Dies)
And you could have it all - Experience his Emotion/Pain
My empire of dirt - When he dies he cant take anything with him. His life/history is dirt to him
I will let you down - Message to his Kids/Family and/or His Fans
I will make you hurt

If I could start again -Thinking of his past
A million miles away - Looking back at his life
I will keep myself - Wishing he could undo what he's done
I would find a way - He would find a way to undo everything - (meaning he might not want to be famous if he knew what it would do to his life/family)