Hurt Lyrics-James Donovan

Nine Inch Nails: Hurt 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPz21cDK7dg

I hurt myself today          

To see if I still feel   (the writer feels depressed and feels empty inside, only feels physical pain anymore)

I focus on the pain

The only thing that's real

The needle tears a hole

The old familiar sting

Try to kill it all away

But I remember everything  
(they washed away their senses with drugs/alcohol and now feel empty, however pain still lingers) 

What have I become

My sweetest friend

Everyone I know      

Goes away in the end  (fear of losing or pushing loved ones away)

And you could have it all

My empire of dirt

I will let you down

I will make you hurt    (the negativity and depression hurts those closest to you)

I wear this crown of shit

Upon my liars chair

Full of broken thoughts

I cannot repair

Beneath the stains of time

The feelings disappear

You are someone else

I am still right here

What have I become

My sweetest friend

Everyone I know

Goes away in the end 

And you could have it all

My empire of dirt

I will let you down

I will make you hurt

If I could start again

A million miles away

I will keep myself

I would find a way    

(if they could do it all over again. Away from all the people they know and love they wouldn’t lose who they were, they would find a way to show their loved ones that they really do care.)