Hurt Johnny Cash Lyrics Novels & Stories

I turned to her—there was a faint trail of blood dripping from the corner of her mouth. I lost all interest in arguing with Nancy. I quickly helped Valerie up and headed home. Nancy tried to follow us in, but I slammed the door shut in her face. I grabbed the first aid kit and started cleaning up Valerie's wound. The tears in her eyes made my heart ache. "Gideon… that woman who cheated on you doesn't deserve you. Even that woman on the yacht is a hundred times better than her." I ignored her rambling. After I finished treating her cut, I stood up.

“Uh, no, man. I didn’t. I’m sorry.” “No sweat, brother. I don’t blame you. I wouldn’t either.” That was a lie. If Johnny had come with us, he would’ve spent all of his time at his mother’s side in the psychiatric facility. Norma Leifthauser had spent most of Johnny’s childhood in and out of various institutions. There was a point during high school where it seemed like her doctors had found the right combination of meds to keep her balanced, but the night we graduated she slit her wrists. Johnny found her in the bathtub. That’s what our song ‘Holes in the Fabric’ was really about. I guess we can put years of online speculation to rest on that one.

"Another shot of whiskey, please, bartender; keep it coming till I don't remember at all how bad it hurts when you're gone. Turn the music up a little bit louder; you just have to get past the midnight hour. Maybe tomorrow it won't be this hard. Who am I kidding? I know what I'm missing." We laughed at how we sounded but didn't care if we sounded like dying whales when we started singing at the top of our lungs. "I had my heart set on you, but nothing else hurts like you do. Who knew that love was so cruel? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I waited and waited so long for someone who'd never come home. It's my fault for thinking you'd be true, yeah, yeah. I'm just a fool." I suddenly lost my balance whe