| A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat. |
Johnny Cash, |
These Things Shall Pass |
| Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God's holy vision, and sliding away like a tear down his face. |
Johnny Cash, |
Love Is The Way |
| I hurt myself today to see if I still feel. I focus on the pain, the only thing that's real. |
Johnny Cash, |
Hurt |
| I wear my crown of thorns on my liars chair, full of broken thoughts I cannot repair, beneath the stain of time the feelings disappears. What have I become, my sweetest of friends? |
Johnny Cash, |
Hurt |
| Death and hell are never full, and neither are men's eyes. |
Johnny Cash, |
Death and Hell |
| He went up to heaven, located his dog. Not only that, but he rejoined his arm. |
Johnny Cash, |
The Man Who Couldn't Cry |
| We'll all be equal under the grass, and God's got a heaven for country trash. |
Johnny Cash, |
Country Trash |
| Come on boys, you must listen unto me, lay off the whiskey and let that cocaine be. |
Johnny Cash, |
Cocaine Blues |
| He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man. |
Johnny Cash, |
Don't Take Your Guns To Town |
| Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you. |
Johnny Cash, |
Happiness Is You |
| I admit I'm a fool for you, because your mine, I walk the line. |
Johnny Cash, |
I Walk The Line |
| Love is a burning thing and it makes a fiery ring bound by wild desire. |
Johnny Cash, |
Ring Of Fire |
| Some gal would giggle and I'd get red, and some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head. I tell ya, life ain't easy for a boy named Sue. |
Johnny Cash, |
A Boy Named Sue |
| My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze. |
Johnny Cash, |
A Boy Named Sue |
| He was removed from jail and placed in a place for the insensitive and insane. |
Johnny Cash, |
The Man Who Could Cry |
| Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free. |
Johnny Cash, |
Greystone Chapel |
| San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell. May your walls fall and may I live to tell. |
Johnny Cash, |
San Quentin |
| When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno. |
Johnny Cash, |
Folsom Prison Blues |
| Call him drunken Ira Hayes, he won't answer any more. Not the whiskey drinking Indian, nor the Marine that went to war. |
Johnny Cash, |
The Ballad Of Ira Hayes |
| I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, living in the hopeless, hungry side of town. I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, but is there because he is a victim of the times. |
Johnny Cash, |
The Man In Black |
| The ones that you're calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while. |
Johnny Cash, |
What Is Truth |
| Stop your ears and close your eyes and try to find the face of love. |
Johnny Cash, |
In Your Mind |
| Understand your man, meditate on it. |
Johnny Cash, |
Understand Your Man |
| I've been flushed from the bathroom of your heart. |
Johnny Cash, |
I've Been Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart |
| God Ain't no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed. |
Johnny Cash, |
God Ain't No Stained Glass Window |