Powerful Stuff Right There

I was writing today and this song 

came to me

I remembered Johnny Cash singing this heart breaking song

but I didn't remember what it was called

I found the music video of this amazing rendition of 

Hurt

by Trent Razner/ Nine Inch Nails

These lyrics, this song
 is a bare knuckled one two
and one of the best pieces of contemporary literature

I have read.

Johnny had aged in the video some

he'd become

frail

and he sang this song

this dying man's declaration

and accusal

hammering out

on fret and key

the deepest kind of truth

and when I was listening to this

it hit me

this was a part of the conversation I had been having with life

and I felt

discovered

I realized why this song had pulled so hard on me today

Some times life was talking to me

and some times I was talking back to life

To the past

The remembered and

The forgotten…

 

Hurt

By Trent Reznor/Nine Inch Nails

Performed by Johnny Cash

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 stain 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...