Johnny Cash & Joaquin Phoenix
Ok, I'm not the first to have done this but whatever,.. Read these lyrics:
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 am 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
The good thing (or maybe the bad thing) about us art-sies is that when we get passionate, fire bursts forth from our souls.
Fire, as we all know, is good when you wanna be warm and bad when you need to live in that house you've just burnt down..
Yeah, anyway...go to JohnnyCash.com if you wanna listen to the music I'm listening to right now.
Go see "Walk The Line"
The film has certainly inspired me to listen to more Johnny Cash.
Thanks for the great performance Joaquin! (Reese you were pretty good too!)
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 am 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
The good thing (or maybe the bad thing) about us art-sies is that when we get passionate, fire bursts forth from our souls.
Fire, as we all know, is good when you wanna be warm and bad when you need to live in that house you've just burnt down..
Yeah, anyway...go to JohnnyCash.com if you wanna listen to the music I'm listening to right now.
Go see "Walk The Line"
The film has certainly inspired me to listen to more Johnny Cash.
Thanks for the great performance Joaquin! (Reese you were pretty good too!)
posted by Black Mamba at 10:25 PM
14 Comments:
'Live at Folsom County Prison' is one of the album/CDs that I listen to on a regular basis - mind you any of the music by the man in black is always good. I'm hoping to see 'Walking the Line' sometime soon myself.
I was most impressed with the small role of Jerry Lee, the man oozed charisma and yet scum of the earth at the same time. And in that brief car conversation he showed his inner demons as he believes that the music was inately evil and yet he found such fulfillment in it.
That song made me a Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) fan, whereas previously I hadn't even considered that he might be a great songwriter. Several people have commented that Johnny's version of that song, with his years hanging heavily around his voice, had a kind of heartbreaking authenticity that Mr. Reznor couldn't have managed for another 50 years, if he lives that long.
Warren
Wow that song is lonely and beautiful. I don't particulaly like Johnny's music, his voice I mean or the the actual music but clearly he is a brillent poet. I have the same issues with Bob Dylan. I know, I know this is a sinful perspective but I have to be honest about it!
Ha! Mim, you make me laugh! You like Johnny Cash, except not his voice, or the actual music. What's left?! :-)
Clearly, he's a brilliant poet, but you don't like him at all. (This is kind of like what a lot of people think about Leonard Cohen, and Tom Waits. Understandable.)
*lowers eyes condescendingly
and nods in Mim's general
direction*
Warren
Warren, I would say that about Leonard Cohen, but not Tom Waits.
Do I have to warn you guys what listening to this kind of music will do to you? Oh, yeah, Jerry already said it for me.
I'm going to go listen to something Christian with no instruments like it should be... at least as long as I wear my headphones it is what people will think I'm listening to.
uh, I believe Harps and Lyres are quite acceptable, but anything else,...I can't really say. Eric might stil tell me to got to _ _ _ _
Oh, I mean that I'm going to _ _ _ _
*oops*
GO to
not "got to"
This is bein' recorded so no saying Hell or shit.
Maybe I don't even like the lyerics, as I have come to learn this is a song he covered (=
I know with time I will come to love Johnny Cash, I can't take the shamming comments I get....(=
I find it interesting how he has kept in touch over the years. My grampa (age 80) plays Cash on his guitar... and Cash covered groups that are newer then the music I listen to... He really spans the generations. Impressive.
Eric has a new Cash CD- I've been enjoying it in the car. I grew up listening to him on car trips.
I found this today, and I thought of you guys.
click link
Have you heard of this "Stone Campbell" movement? Sounds a bit like old-school Church of Christ, with the musical-instruments-are-from-satan arguments, and all.
Regards,
Warren
Warren! What are you trying to do to me with that?
I feel faint. Sickened!
It amazes me that somebody has THAT MUCH TIME and ENERGY to put into crazy shit!!!
Music=Sex and The Devil
hmmm,..I should really send this guy a strong philosophical argument proving that ANY SOUND can be considered MUSIC. AHHHHHH!!!!
This just makes me want to freak out!!!!!
(she breathes)
Okay, I think I'll be alright.
It is one thing to be criticized and to attack the problems and inconsistancies from within a group or denomination, but the kind of language and attack from this website is such that I find offensive. It paints everyone with the same brush. I am sure that he as a baptist would not want to be painted the same as some of the other groups that hold the name baptist.
I am distressed reading this and every fibre of my being wants to intervein, to explain, to correct and give the picture that is missing in this villification of my history, of my life experience. Sorry for the interuption, I will go try to deal with my reaction myself.
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