HURT - Johnny Cash and Nine Inch Nails versions

Original Nine Inch Nails song Johnny Cash's cover  

 

 

I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything

What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of shit
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here

What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

 

I found this song highly emotional since the first time I listened to it not more than two weeks ago. Its original author is Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails), and the first video in this post is a live performance at the band's Self Destruct tour in 1995. A gigant screen was dropped on stage showing different images, such as war atrocities, nuclear bomb explosions, animals and a fox decomposing in reverse. This pictures provoke in me a sense of loss, guiltiness, nostalgia,inevitability and other similar reactions that have a lot to do with the lyrics of the song. "If I could start again / A million miles away", "Everyone I know / goes away in the end" and other quotes from the song fit with the photographs, allowing the listener and watcher to grow a feeling inside themselves, a feeling that's different in everyone, but finally reduced to the emotion which the song gets it's title from: HURT. The second video is the cover version by Johnny Cash, who depicts his own feelings of the song in the video, showing important moments of his own life. I recommend you watch both videos.

Starting Point

Hola, ¿que tal?...
Asi empiezo con mi primera entrada de este blog... ejejj, muy chorra, ¿verdad?.
Estaba pensando en empezarlo hace unas semanas y por fin me decidi.
Creo que como mucho tendre tiempo para actualizarlo una vez a la semana. He pensado que algunas entradas las escribire en ingles, solo algunas, ya que viene bien hacer uso de este idioma si se conoce bien.
Como vereis, he añadido algunos links en el lateral, con acceso a mis videos subidos en Youtube, asi como a algo de musica.
¿Tematica?
Pues me imagino que nada en concreto... Quiza hable de viajes que he hecho y quiero hacer, de musica, noticias de actualidad, experiencias... No lo se, sera variado.
Venga, pues ahora, esperando que alguien lea esto, le doy a "publish post" y a correr.
¡Gracias por pasarte!