Sorry, but Johnny Cash was a fraud.
He sang a cover song a few years ago written by Trent Reznor of Nine inch Nails, (a band name that mocks the cross) called "Hurt".
The song glorifies IV drug use,
Sound like anything a Christian would sing?
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I'm not seeing how it'd be anti christian even if he didn't change it- the line seems to be comparing one's self to jesus but falling short. Not exactly anti christian, but hey, what do I know, I'm just a heathen.
Fuck. You.
No, seriously. Fuck. You.
Johnny Cash's version of Hurt is maybe my favourite song of all time.
You are not even worthy to listen to it.
You neglect to mention that Cash altered those lyrics you quote to "I wear this crown of thorns." Also the Reznor version is commonly interpreted as being about drugs, but it's not glorifying them. It's a melancholy ballad of a drug addict looking back on those he's hurt because of his drug addiction, well, according to my interpretation. The Cash version has a different meaning, where the singer is looking back on his own life as he approaches death. Take your finger wagging no true Christian nonsense elsewhere.
The Johnny Cash version did change the wording.
On a side note, Trent Reznor had nothing but praise on Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt". I believe (paraphrasing here) while Trent wrote the song, Johnny Cash made the song his.
Johnny defaulted to a country label, he began in rockabilly, an early mix of emerging 50s rock and country/folk. I liked some classic country growing up in the sixties but gravitated more to rock as the bands all gave you something different as country became formulatic real fast, except somehow with Johnny.
It's not to say Johnny didn't have a 'sound' that he locked into and permeated his career, it just that he still somehow brought something new to everything he did. Hurt is what, the thousands cover he did? Possibly the hundredth rock artist cover he did. As I fell away from all Classic county by the seventies I never pushed Johnny away and Johnny never made me regret that trust. Other crossover guys, like Stafford, Jennings, Daniels and Jerry Reed came along under Johnnys shadow and got the unique shots.
Hurt: My thirty something kids, all three, loved it and I was proud of that. Because it was epic. Johnny worked with Rockers easily because he didn't have that stupid prejudice many carry, in case no one noticed he was considered a rebel in country.
Why? Johnny puts the right emotions into his songs, he's not these five octave plus people showing how good he is, he's a songcraft guy. A true artist of the field. You can feel the anger in NIN version but moreso you can feel the pain and regret in Johnnys take.
Oh, and another thing, "Not a real Christian" is an arrogant comment from any other sect but from Rapturites, and End-Timers, THE MOST DOGMATIC, UNSCRIPTURAL cults, it's beyond ridiculous.
++"The song glorifies IV drug use"
No. It doesn't. The song talks about becoming so numb to life that you have to deliberately hurt yourself to even feel anything anymore. Perhaps if you had any shred of humanity or even basic intelligence then you might understand this. It doesn't "glorify" IV drug use any more than condoms "glorify" unprotected sex.
++"there is even one line in the song-
Sound like anything a Christian would sing? "
That's not how he sang it in his cover but after a long, long life of countless problems and unpalatable realizations about oneself? Yes. Yes, it does sound like something a Christian would sing.
If you had one solitary iota of brain activity -- or of integrity, given that you left out the follow-up line "upon my liar's chair" -- you'd recognize the symbolism. It's talking about ultimately being nothing more than just another person. About wasting one's life and the good things in it and wishing above all else that you could go back and do things better. About the sum of all one's ups and downs, of all one's accomplishments and failures, meaning very, very little in the end. That his public image is a deception, glamorizing him and making him look like something more than he really is. How can you people read deeper meanings and symbolism in every single stupid little word of that precious book of yours no matter how straight forward the passage and yet so thoroughly fail to see such things in one of the most symbolism- and metaphor-laden arts there is!?
You're fucking disgusting.
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Oh wow. The guest on the podcast I'm listening specifically mentioned Johnny Cash singing Hurt right as I was finishing typing this. Weird.
Country music starts & finishes with Johnny Cash.
Trent Reznor did the music for id Software's "Quake".
So there's two reasons why your argument is invalid.
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