Lyrics of a Day

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    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

    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'm still right here

    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

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    • I am always moved to tears when I hear this songD4W33D
    • it's a great tune.Ianbolton
    • So honest, is he the original author?canoe
    • Trent wrote itscarabin
    • Thought so...canoe
    • Johnny Cashi_was
    • what a shit, Reznor is a cucki_was
    • I was talking about Johny cash's version...D4W33D
    • People usually are. Trent himself said he considers it a cash song nowscarabin
    • I saw the video for the Cash version for the first time in a Virgin Megastore in NYC, Union Sq. Everyone turned to watch it.CyBrainX
    • To me cash is just covering it. Nothing compares to Trent who loved, wrote, created and owned this song long before cash touched it.monospaced
    • People only like the cash version because his voice sounds as sickly and half dead as it does. Fehmonospaced
    • I think I read something aboit Reznor saying it was gonna be hard to interpret that song after Cash’s version.maquito
    • i_was, you’re the definition of cuck. What the fuck off?maquito
    • I own more NIN albums than Johnny Cash. and I gotta say, I think cash's version is better.pango
    • You can’t be serious. o_0monospaced
    • more NIN than cash? why not? NIN was THE jam for my teenage years! :Ppango
    • I'm a huge NIN fan, we had that in common as teens. I just can't see how the boring cash version is "better," just more depressing sounding.monospaced
    • "It was this other person inhabiting my most personal song. Hearing it was like someone kissing your girlfriend. It felt invasive." — trentmonospaced
    • I suppose he liked the song and was flattered, but I don't see any indication he considers it a Cash song now, more that Cash makes everyone's songs his.monospaced
    • ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ to each of their own. Music hits people differently. Trent also said good things about Cash's version.pango
    • https://www.youtube.…pango
    • Sure, he liked it eventually. I just don't think it's that good. Just my opinion.monospaced
    • Anyone see the Song Exploder series? Trent dissects this song https://youtu.be/myl…Ianbolton
    • Definitive version: https://www.youtube.…garbage
    • I guess i was remembering the first part of that quote “Iwasn’t prepared for what I saw, and it really then, wasn’t my song anymore”scarabin
    • I think the meaning of that quote is up for interpretation.monospaced
    • perhaps even tho he gave permission to do a cover of his song, he wasn't prepared for it not being his. and im guessing once he removed him self out of it, thenpango
    • he started to appreciate what cash did.pango
    • also he seems to be more cool about people covering his songs now. he could have cock block lil nas X for sampling his song in old town road.pango
    • he just had his people work it out with lil nas' people. and also “34 Ghosts IV,” was released under creative common. in a way he was expecting people to samplpango
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