Dear Jhonny
Surely and without fear of being mistaken, when reading the title of the post, quickly came to your mind the decadent image of Johnny Cash making a small recount of his life in what was his last video and precisely in his latest success.
Although the subject of which we are going to speak now, belongs to the American band NIN (Nine Inch Nails) written by Trent Reznor and included in the album Downward; It was never officially promoted. Well, it was produced a promotional album with censored versions (PRCD 6179 produced by Interscope "Halo 10").
The song has been sung by a number of artists after Johnny Cash, but none (not even the same author) has been able to capture the immense pain of a life always on the edge of the abyss.
The lyrics are a heartbreaking confession of how frustrating and painful life has been: Johnny says the only real thing in life is pain. He causes injuries to know if he still feels something ... he recognizes as familiar that sting that causes pain ... but refers to the pain of being alive ...
He asks the hardest question that can be asked of a human being when he is defeated: What have I become, my sweetest friend? ... It is very obvious that he addresses a religious figure in which he previously trusted because later Returns to refer to this personage.
All the people who came to his life ended up leaving him alone. Like a fool. Moving away...
As for the images that emerge from the poem cites an allegory to the empire of garbage built in the West, when he sits on his throne of lies with the crown of thorns; But with broken thoughts that can no longer be fixed. Go back to that religious figure to throw a phrase of contempt: "You are someone else" ... I m still right here ...
It ends with an extraordinary sentence: If I could start again, millions of miles away from here; It would be the same...