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Originally Posted by legion
Hurt was on the same album as Closer, and Nine Inch Nails sang the soundtrack to my high school years.
I remember flipping on the TV before work some time in 2001 or so (I was still in an apartment at the time). As I'm flipping through the stations, I come across a familiar song from a new voice. Is that Johnny Cash singing a Nine Inch Nails song!?
Though both Johnny and Trent sing the same words (well, almost, Cash does change one line), the same song has a drastically different meaning. In one version, it is a young man voicing his regrets and wondering if he can change. In another version, it is an old man voices his regrets and seeing that he cannot change.
The original version of the song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc1mP4ae2Io |
BTW, i disagree with your conclusion.
Cash's version is an old man singing about all that he worked a lifetime for meaning absolutely nothing and, in the end, being absolutely alone.
With nothing. Everything he cared for gone...like he will soon be.
He is singing about death.