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| versions = Hurt<br>Hurt (Album Version) Clean<br>Hurt (Instrumental)<br>Hurt (Quiet)<br>Hurt (Live)<br>Hurt (with David Bowie)<br>Hurt (''[[And All That Could Have Been (halo)|And All That Could Have Been]]''<br>Hurt (ReAct Now version)<br>Hurt (''[[Beside You In Time (halo)|Beside You In Time]]'')<br>Hurt ([[Bridge School Benefit]])
| live = [[Further Down The Spiral Tour]] through present
}}'''"Hurt"''' is the final track on ''[[The Downward Spiral (halo)|The Downward Spiral]].'' . The idea of the narrator being or feeling "a million miles away," as sung at the end of this song, would be mentioned again in both "[[All The Love In The World]]" and "[[1,000,000]]"." Whether the three songs are all specifically related beyond [[Recurring_lyrics#A_Million_Miles_Away|repetition of the phrase]] is publicly unverified.
===Song Credits===
===Hurt (with David Bowie)===
Ending the cooperative transition set on the 1995 [[Dissonance]] tour, this remix of "Hurt" was played live by [[David Bowie]] and his band, featuring Reznor singing the duet with Bowie as they trade verse sections and choruses. More spacey and featuring new drum loops and guitar, the first half of the song gave way to a return to the album guitar parts after the initial chorus. Its noisy ending eventually segued into the opening song of the Bowie set, "Look Back in Anger"." A performance of this version is included on ''Closure''.
===Hurt (''And All That Could Have Been'')===
==Music Video==
[[Image:Hurtstill.jpg|thumb|Screenshot from the "Hurt" video]]
The [[Nine Inch Nails music videos|music video]] is simply tour footage of Reznor singing behind a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrim_%28material%29 scrim]. The footage used for this was shot in [[1995/02/11_Dallas,_TX|Dallas, TexasTX]] and [[1995/02/13_Omaha, and _NE|Omaha, NebraskaNE]], in February of 1995. This video was released after a fully produced music video was scrapped. Both the scrapped studio video and the final live video were directed by Simon Maxwell. The live video can be found in the DualDisc edition of ''The Downward Spiral'' .
A second edit of "Hurt" was released on ''Closure.'' . It is mostly similar to the original music video, but includes some alternate takes and angles, as well as some tracking shots of the audience members. It is likely that this new edit (along with the live videos for "[[Eraser#Music_Video|Eraser]]" and "[[Wish_(song)#Music_Video|Wish]]") were produced for Maxwell's [[Closure#Abandoned_1995_tour_film|abandoned professionally shot music concert film]] documenting the [[Further Down The Spiral Tour]] performances.
Behind-the-scenes footage of the original video, shot at Silvercup Studios in New York, can be seen in the "Appendage" footage on the ''Closure'' DVD leak. The original video appears to be similar to the video for "[[Burn (song)|Burn]]". It features Reznor justified to the right of the screen, singing the song with footage of war atrocities and other acts of violence in the background, presumably the same footage projected in the live version. A 2016 interview with Maxwell gives background information about both the original and the final, released video.[http://pantograph-punch.com/posts/interview-with-simon-maxwell]
==Covers==
[[Image:PMTRHurtPMTRHurtCover.jpg|thumb|Photo used in the artwork Artwork for the Peter Murphy and Trent Reznor version]]
"Hurt" has been covered by a variety of artists. More information can be found [[Covers Of NIN|here]].
The song gained a new wave of popularity in 2002 when it was famously covered by [[wp:Johnny Cash|Johnny Cash]], at the recommendation of producer [[wp:Rick Rubin|Rick Rubin]]. This Rubin had to pitch the song multiple times to Cash in order to convince him to cover it, as Cash initially didn't see its appeal.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkwISstQQVw] The cover caused a lot of confusion for the audiences of Cash, who generally weren't familiar with the work of [[Nine Inch Nails]], often resulting in miscrediting the song to Cash. In Cash's version, the line "crown of shit" is changed to "crown of thorns," but the lyrics are otherwise unchanged. Reznor was somewhat uncomfortable with the idea of the cover at first, but lost all reluctance after seeing the music video, and said that the song was no longer his.[https://www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/display/11] The powerful video, directed by [[Mark Romanek]], is consistently lauded as one of the greatest music videos of all time.
A version by [[Peter Murphy]] with Trent Reznor on piano was released exclusively through iTunes in 2009, while Murphy was releasing a string of covers. It was recorded in the studio, presumably during the same time period as the [[With Teeth: Summer Tour 2006 Radio Collaboration]]. It was later included on Murphy's ''Peter Live – Vol One – Covers''.
==Live==
==External Links==
*[https://vimeo.com/332866153 3617272 "Hurt" live music video(''Closure'' version)]*[https://vimeo.com/3617272 61601833 "Hurt" live music video alternate edit from ''Closure''with David Bowie]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvJKVKglIRs "Hurt" live from ''Beside You In Time'']
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whcMLj7e3Ew "Hurt" live visuals from the Self Destruct Tour]