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Song title:      Hurt
Original Album:	 The Downward Spiral (Nine Inch Nails) 
Other Album:     American IV: The Man Comes Around (Johnny Cash)

Words and Music by Trent Reznor
Copyright © 1994 Nothing / Interscope & © 2003 American Recordings
Published by Universal Music Group

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (www.gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
This was transcribed from Johnny Cash's cover.



INTRO:


[play: INTRO Figure]  [x2]

INTRO Figure
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VERSE1:

[play:]

  Am                                C               D                 Am                                C               D
|---------0____-------------------|---------0____-----------2____---|---------0____-------------------|---------0____-----------2____---|
|---------1____-------------------|---------1____-----------3____---|---------1____-------------------|---------1____-----------3____---|
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  Am                                C               D                 Am                                C               D
                              I     hurt    my   -  self        to -  day                     to        see     if      I       still


  Am                                C               D                 Am                                C               D
  feel                        I     fo -cus         on      the       pain,                         the on   -  ly      thing       that's


  Am                                C               D                 Am                                C               D
  real                        The   nee-dle         tears   a         hole,                       the   old     fa   -  mil-iar


  Am                                C               D                 Am                                C               D
  sting                   Try to    kill it         all         a  -  way,                 but I  re  - mem-ber         ev  -  'ry -



  G
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- thing




CHORUS:

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  Am7                               Fadd9                             C                                 G
  What have       I           be  - come,                                     my      sweetest          friend


  Am7                               Fadd9                             C                                 G
  Ev-'ry     -    one         I     know            goes    a     -   way             in  the           end                         and


  Am7                               Fadd9                             C                                 G
  you     could   have    it        all,                              my      em   -  pire    of        dirt


  Am7                               Fadd9                             C                                 G
  I       will    let     you       know,                             I       will    make    you       hurt




[play: INTRO Figure]  [x2]




VERSE2:


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|-----2---------------------------|-----2-----------0---------------|-----2---------------------------|-----2-----------0---------------|
|-0-------------------------------|-3-------------------------------|-0-------------------------------|-3-------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

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  Am                                C               D                 Am                                C               D
                              I     wear    this    crown of          thorns                      up  - on      my      li -ar's


  Am                                C               D                 Am                                C               D
  chair.                            Full of         broken            thoughts                          I       can-not         re-


  Am                                C               D                 Am                                C               D
 -pair.                       Be  - neath   the     stains      of    time,                       the   feeling             dis -a -


  Am                                C               D                 Am                                C               D
- ppears.                           You are         someone           else,                             I   am          still right...




[play:]

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  here




[repeat CHORUS]

 | Am7          | Fadd9 | C            | G
If I could start again, a million miles away




ENDING:

  Am7                               Fadd9                             G
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  Am7                               Fadd9
  I   would       keep        my  - self,                             I would find a way