OUR FIRST TIME HEARING Johnny Cash "Hurt" REACTION!!!😱

When I was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s one of the first things I did was to write up my will while still of sound mind. I told my wife that I would like this song played at my funeral for my son.

If this song doesn't tear your heart out, you haven't got one. When Johnny Cash's daughter heard it, she said "it sounds like you're saying goodbye", he replied "I am".

It's amazing how someone like Trent Reznor could write a song so personal and emotional and then Johnny Cash could relate to it so deeply and make it even better.

I'm 76 years old. I remember Christmases with my four grandparents, my parents, my two older brothers and their wives, and my little sister. My sister is the only one of them still alive. The older you get the more deaths among your family and friends. This song reminded of them all. My wife is still alive but can't walk, moves in a wheelchair and sleeps most of the time. Sometimes she doesn't remember who I am. Old age isn't fun, it's sad.

Once he closed that piano in the end, he never opened it again.😭

I love her reaction, you can tell she feels the spirit of the song and Her genuine tears scream out the universal commonality of the true pain of loss.

For those who got emotional... Here is how I will make you cry even harder: His daughter heard this and said it was almost like he was saying goodbye. He answered that he was. This song was recorded not that long before his death.

The piano chords striking like a ticking clock as his time grew nearer, slowly getting louder. Everything ends and we should all be so grateful to leave such a legacy.

When Trent Reznor wrote this song, he was singing it from a different place. It was dark and brooding. And then comes JR Cash. It was as though he was singing his eulogy. He knew his time was short, and this was the song to be remembered for all time. The end of this video always hits me pretty hard. When he closes the lid on the piano and wipes it down, it's as if to say "Goodbye". There will never be another Johnny Cash.

I've probably watched the video at least 30 times and still can't get through it without tears. His performance is so powerful. One of the greatest videos ever made.

I've watched a lot of reaction videos to this song, but this one is the truest. Her uncontrollable tears are the truest reaction possible.

Trent Reznor, the frontman for Nine Inch Nails and writer of the song, wrote it in his mid to late 20's while fighting depression. He was initially hesitant to the cover, and hearing for the first time felt almost violated because of the personal meaning the song had for him. After seeing this video though, Reznor has been on record saying, "This is not my song anymore." Very powerful and moving. I can't watch this video without feeling the tears welling up n my eyes.

He is singing about his repentance, that's why it's so emotional.

Johnny Cash's cover of his song is on a whole different level. He took a wildly popular, amazing song... and using the exact same words, he turned it into a completely new/different song. You hear this man, who knows hes finally reached the end of his road... and he's so full of regret. Regrets who he's become, who he's been, how things happened. He mourns those he's lost... almost more so not because they're gone but because it took him til the end of his life to realize what's important. Truly... truly an emotional masterpiece in the collection book of Johnny Cash.

I`m a 49 year old man . And since day one this song came out from johnny cash my heart just breaks , It`s beautiful and also heartbreaking. This song will last forever.......

The Johnny Cash video for the single was recorded in February of 2003. June Carter Cash, his 2nd wife is, the woman on stairs; also a singer who toured with him and sang with him on several songs and is the person played by Reese Witherspoon alongside Joaquin Phoenix, in the biopic film of Cash and Carter, Walk the line. She had come over to check on her husband that day as his health was not so good. It was her that Cash attributed to rescuing him from his drug and Alcohol addiction when she married him. June Carter Cash passed away a few months after the video recording in May of 2003 and a bereaved Johnny Cash followed her a few months later in the September. The song is by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and is about his battle with addiction and depression. Cash also an addict and alcoholic for much of his early life spending time in Jail on half a dozen occasions for possession. The song encompasses the way both musicians life threads are woven together and entangled across the decades between them, so much so that Trent when he saw the video said it was like loosing his Girlfriend as the song had become Johnny's. Johnny was a campaigner for prison reform and the rights of Native Americans and much of his material reflected his own passions and darker past. Johnny Cash's star declined in the 80s and the Museum to his life with the smashed Gold Disk on the Floor, used as one of the backdrops to the video, ended up being shuttered. In the 1990s Rick Rubin of American Recordings more of a Rap, Punk and Metal, producer sought out Cash to record on their label, and offered Cash complete artistic freedom. With them his career revived and he brought out a his most critically acclaimed albums, the America series, bringing Cash to a new younger audience starring on The Simpsons and Headlining at Glastonbury in 1994. The 4th and penultimate album of the America series from which this is one of several Hit Singles: American IV: The Man Comes Around, was released in November of 2002 and he was still working on his final Album that was released posthumously.

I think the emotional impact is so heavy because we see our own story in this. Differences of course. I'm 65 so I've enjoyed Johnny Cash all my life. I've watched this countless times and still get teary eyed.

Your emotional reaction was so beautiful.

This is the only song that explains my experience with terminal cancer at 34. To hear other people from around the world feel this same gut feeling truly means music can reach others when words fall short. It's the build-up at the end then that last ring of the piano that really hits me hard. I grew up listening to nin and heard this before, but the way Johnny brings that touch of palpable grief, can't be done by no one else.

It's not just Johnny's farewell. It also expresses regret, an amends, and gratitude.