Sico's Lyric Contest - Cash (313 hits)
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Submitted by DirtyHarry (View user info) at 2007-06-20 13:49:08 EDT
First written by Trent Reznor and recorded on Nine Inch Nails' album "The Downward Spiral" and then Johnny Cash covered it on his album, "American IV: The Man Comes Around" Cash's version was the first one I heard, and it's the best one.
If I ever kill myself, this will be the song I do it to.
"Hurt"
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
[Chorus:]
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
I will make you hurt
I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here
[Chorus:]
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
I will make you hurt
If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way
And another Cash favorite off the same album.
"The Man Comes Around"
"And I heard as it were the noise of thunder
One of the four beasts saying come and see and I saw
And behold a white horse"
There's a man going around taking names and he decides
Who to free and who to blame every body won't be treated
Quite the same there will be a golden ladder reaching down
When the man comes around
The hairs on your arm will stand up at the terror in each
Sip and each sup will you partake of that last offered cup
Or disappear into the potter's ground
When the man comes around
[CHORUS]
Hear the trumpets hear the pipers one hundred million angels singing
Multitudes are marching to a big kettledrum
Voices calling and voices crying
Some are born and some are dying
Its alpha and omegas kingdom come
And the whirlwind is in the thorn trees
The virgins are all trimming their wicks
The whirlwind is in the thorn trees
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks
Till Armageddon no shalom no shalom
Then the father hen will call his chicken's home
The wise man will bow down before the thorn and at his feet
They will cast the golden crowns
When the man comes around
Whoever is unjust let him be unjust still
Whoever is righteous let him be righteous still
Whoever is filthy let him be filthy still
Listen to the words long written down
When the man comes around
User Reviews
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-09-21 09:31:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by DirtyHarry (user info) at 2007-09-15 16:57:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I have fallen in love with your writing. Can I be your e-stalker?
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Only if you mean it in the platonic, friendly, not creepy way.
Submitted by NintendoCzar (user info) at 2007-08-26 21:51:36 EDT (#)
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Then stop reading my posts.
Submitted by Spacegrass (user info) at 2007-06-22 14:40:54 EDT (#)
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http://www.gofish.com/channel.gfp?gfid=50-896&videoGfid=30-1092871
If you don't find that funny you don't have a soul. Sorry.
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2007-06-20 17:53:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2007-06-20 14:46:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
Submitted by raebuf (user info) at 2007-06-20 13:56:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by bob (user info) at 2007-06-20 13:55:39 EDT (#)
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lyrics are reznor's...not cash's
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Cash's version is a fucking joke.
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suddenly i like you a little less
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2007-06-20 17:37:00 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I think both versions are wonderful.
Submitted by gravitas (user info) at 2007-06-20 17:32:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by DeathJester (user info) at 2007-06-20 16:01:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2007-06-20 14:46:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
Submitted by raebuf (user info) at 2007-06-20 13:56:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by bob (user info) at 2007-06-20 13:55:39 EDT (#)
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lyrics are reznor's...not cash's
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Cash's version is a fucking joke.
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I prefer Trent's version, but then again I prefer metal to country.
The video for Cash's version (especially the spilling the wine bit) makes me want to punch the director, so no +2 i'm afraid.
He also says at the top of the post that it's Trent's song. Learn to read.
Submitted by SgtHartman (user info) at 2007-06-20 15:08:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
GREATEST LYRICS ABOUT DEATH EVER
Ralph Stanley - O Death Lyrics
O, Death
O, Death
Won't you spare me over til another year
Well what is this that I can't see
With ice cold hands takin' hold of me
Well I am death, none can excel
I'll open the door to heaven or hell
Whoa, death someone would pray
Could you wait to call me another day
The children prayed, the preacher preached
Time and mercy is out of your reach
I'll fix your feet til you cant walk
I'll lock your jaw til you cant talk
I'll close your eyes so you can't see
This very air, come and go with me
I'm death I come to take the soul
Leave the body and leave it cold
To draw up the flesh off of the frame
Dirt and worm both have a claim
O, Death
O, Death
Won't you spare me over til another year
My mother came to my bed
Placed a cold towel upon my head
My head is warm my feet are cold
Death is a-movin upon my soul
Oh, death how you're treatin' me
You've close my eyes so I can't see
Well you're hurtin' my body
You make me cold
You run my life right outta my soul
Oh death please consider my age
Please don't take me at this stage
My wealth is all at your command
If you will move your icy hand
Oh the young, the rich or poor
Hunger like me you know
No wealth, no ruin, no silver no gold
Nothing satisfies me but your soul
O, death
O, death
Wont you spare me over til another year
Wont you spare me over til another year
Wont you spare me over til another year
Submitted by SPECIALk (user info) at 2007-06-20 14:58:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Oh whatever, everyone knows that kermit the frog's version is the best.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2007-06-20 14:46:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
Submitted by raebuf (user info) at 2007-06-20 13:56:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by bob (user info) at 2007-06-20 13:55:39 EDT (#)
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lyrics are reznor's...not cash's
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Cash's version is a fucking joke.
Submitted by experima (user info) at 2007-06-20 14:13:37 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Flapjacksupreme (user info) at 2007-06-20 14:06:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Raebuf and BOB, can you fucking read? It says so in the very first sentence.... good choice.
http://www.ubersite.com/m/109387
Submitted by raebuf (user info) at 2007-06-20 13:56:57 EDT (#)
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Submitted by bob (user info) at 2007-06-20 13:55:39 EDT (#)
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lyrics are reznor's...not cash's
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2007-06-20 13:56:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Man, is this "contest" boring or what?
Submitted by bob (user info) at 2007-06-20 13:55:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
lyrics are reznor's...not cash's
Submitted by simple_catalyst (user info) at 2007-06-20 13:53:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by EmoJean (user info) at 2007-06-20 13:53:37 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Folsom Prison Blues or Hung My Head tops both of those
Submitted by lover101 (user info) at 2007-06-20 13:52:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Hell yes!