Johnny Cash performs 'Hurt'

Johnny Cash performs his video version of "Hurt" (originally by Nine Inch Nails, I think) at NME.COM: look for the link that says 'Click here to watch it' (RealPlayer required). This is a powerful song about drug addiction (and alienation). Watch it!

UPDATE Dec 25, 2003 10:03 pm CST

Here are the lyrics:

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

[Chorus:]
What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

(you stay the hell away from me, you hear?)

I wear this crown of thorns
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

[Chorus:]
What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end
And 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

Johnny Cash is probably the only musician I liked in third grade that I still listen to now.