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I love Ray Charles...he is a Legend and should of had all the attention that Johnny got, BUT
30 days before Johnny passed away he was nominated for one of those MTV video awards. Timberlake won, and demanded a re-count.
Johnny's video for "Hurt" was so spellbinding, and just sorta predicted his immediate future it was disturbing. The shot of June with the lyrics "What have I become, My sweetest friend, Everyone I know goes away in the end "
June passed away four months before Johnny, he predicted his death in a way. And don't forget Rosanne Cash's song that was released in Feb/Mar 03, "September When it Comes" Her first duet with her dad, about his mortality...
From the time that June died, until Johnny died the man did nothing but record and write new songs...can you imagine what those songs are like...
Sorry if I am rambling, but Johnny was more than a singer or a Legend to me. He was Johnny Cash. The man in black...
These words were written in the 60's, but how true they are still today...
Well, you wonder why I always dress in black, Why you never see bright colors on my back, And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone. Well, there's a reason for the things that I have on.
I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times.
I wear the black for those who never read, Or listened to the words that Jesus said, About the road to happiness through love and charity, Why, you'd think He's talking straight to you and me.
Well, we're doin' mighty fine, I do suppose, In our streak of lightnin' cars and fancy clothes, But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back, Up front there ought 'a be a Man In Black.
I wear it for the sick and lonely old, For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold, I wear the black in mournin' for the lives that could have been, Each week we lose a hundred fine young men.
And, I wear it for the thousands who have died, Believen' that the Lord was on their side, I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died, Believen' that we all were on their side.
Well, there's things that never will be right I know, And things need changin' everywhere you go, But 'til we start to make a move to make a few things right, You'll never see me wear a suit of white.
Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day, And tell the world that everything's OK, But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back, 'Till things are brighter, I'm the Man In Black.
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