The songs are stark, bare and always classic Cash. And I won't back down. Cash's voice is mature, haggard and steady as he sings of failed love affairs. A solitary man. Acoustic and stripped of Bono's characteristic flair, the song is more tender than U2's version.
Cash turns the song into a testament of faith.
In the past few years, Cash has been battling illness. This struggle with mortality is present in many of the tracks on the album. Cash's voice is strained, drawing from his days as an alcoholic and a cocaine addict, and plunges back through his darkest days for inspiration. It's also the most touching. As the bone-gnawing fiddle slowly starts the song, the brittle strings on Cash's guitar sound as though they are ready to snap.