good! incredibly done.

I always play this song before I got to sleep for some reason it makes me feel thankful for all of things that happen to me, I have my own interpretations of what the song is talking about, I think we all may but only Johnny can make u s all feel the same way when we hear his music.

the tone of the recording and the video is that tone that older people get when they know thier number is up. taking care of alot of older people in my family i recognize it well.
its the disappointment (to me) about how little time we have on this mudball and all the stupid things we do without thinking of ourselves or others in the long run. because all that really matters is your loved ones and your health. everything else is just vanity,self pity and egotistical bullshit.
we have this preconcieved notion of what life is and what we will be and in the end it doesnt matter. nothing like that matters in the least.

my parents always try to drive me in the direction of making a well to do life. but from all my memories not one included shopping or vacations. it was stuff like baking cookies or debating over icicles or tinsle for the tree...or some wierd bug that my little brother would chase me with....
not degrees and savings and investments and being in bands....

i think when you come to that age you dont think that...you KNOW it. and then you reflect on all your wasted time and percieved failures tht were nothing more than an experience.

Hurt is so full of emotion like all Cash songs, but that one can really chokes me up. Especially when someone close to you hurts you or you hurt someone you love.

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
Iwill make you hurt

i love johnny cash but i dont like this song..sorry

I think that there are many, many songs by JC that are superior to this cover, but it is so evocative. It brings whatever is down deep right up to the surface for me, always, and to me that is the hallmark of a good song. I have heard that Reznor was actually pissed that Johnny covered this song, and I believe that it is because when Johnny sings it, it sounds like HIS song. There is so much one could interpret to be a direct line on Johnny's life, written by another man. I would have been honored if I were Trent, but some people have egos that are too fragile to accept that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
American IV is not the first album that I think of when I consider JC, but I do think of it as one of the finest albums to come out in the past decade, for the breadth of its emotional landscape.