It is up for debate who did the better version of “Hurt,” but even though Sting wrote this song (apparently), Johnny Cash’s version is so amazingly better. It is so much better that I actually was stunned to see that Sting wrote it…and I’m still not sure I trust wikipedia on this…
here is Cash’s version:
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Friday morning we shut down the house and headed to LAX. Despite a disorganized boarding queueing procedure from Air Canada, the actual flight was not full and we ended up with an empty seat next to us. However, the flight was delayed for about a half hour due to a “maintenance procedure” that prolonged our […]
I posted a bit ago about how we’d gone back to Shaw’s Cove for the first time in five years. Part of that was because we’d visited La Jolla Shores on one day down and back trips in 2020 and 2021. Then no swimming at all anywhere in 2022 or 2023. So while it had […]
A month ago we returned to Shaw’s Cove after a 5 year drought to find out that we’d been snorkeling to the wrong side all along. A few coves south lay the Laguna Beach Marine Life Refuge, where most of the juvenile leopard sharks learn to drive. Last time all our friends cancelled on us, […]
I vote for J.C. on both. Both are in the form of a lament which works well with the 4/4. Maybe you adsorbed some of the hillbilly fatalistic sorrow in your approach to music app.—you are ready for “the banks of the Ohio”.
I thought this was in 9/8 or something like that
Sting’s is in 9/8–it completely changes the feeling (for me).