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| versions = Hurt<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 (''[[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.
===Covers===
Hurt has been covered by a variety of artists, such as [[Tori Amos]], [[wp:Matthew Good|Matthew Good]], [[Peter Murphy]], Breaking Benjamin, Underoath, Aaron Lewis, and [[wp:Sevendust|Sevendust]]. 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 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 is otherwise unchanged.
===Song Credits===
===Hurt (Live)===
This live version is found on the UK edition of ''Further Down The Spiral'' and in video form on ''Closure'' and ''The Downward Spiral'' 10th Anniversary DualDisc edition. In this version, the guitar is replaced with a piano. Reznor moans melodically and quietly after the noisy ending fades away, and the faint sounds of the introduction from "[[The Downward Spiral (song)|The Downward Spiral]]'s" introduction can be heard fading out. On the "Hurt" promo, two versions of this recording are included, one censored and one uncensored, both of which fade in the beginning and out the ending.
===Hurt (with David Bowie)===