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Agreed; it is not as though Cash thought up, wrote, and ultimately created the message conveyed by the song. He just thought to contact Trent for the rights to do a cover version of it.
It has some evoking imagery, yes, but it does contain the same tone and presence as the one who made this song a reality. Cash in no way during his entire lifetime experienced anything as near as what Trent had, and at the particular moment in which Trent pondered the makings of this song, he was perhaps at the lowest point in his life.
That is not meant to detract from Cash's wonderful take on it, but it does not hold the same unyielding power and raw feeling as the original; and in my mind, very few imitations do.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi
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