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That's a great video. Looks like Luis Buñuel a lot!

This video is sort of weak-sauce doesn't matter what you put along with a great song.

You do know that Nick Cave wrote it, right?

great song bad video....

The two versions have a different perspective. The original version of Nick Cave focuses on the chaos and distress in the mind of the condemned man, while the cover by Johnnny Cash shows the dispair and pain that the condemned is feeling. Both versions are fantastic. If you like the Johnny Cash version better, you should check the live videos of Nick Cave performing Mercy Seat. The live versions are also more sober than the album and video version.

I've *never* heard him say that, but if he did he was not being literal. This is Cave's song, Cash covered it and credited Cave. The original version is much more passionate than this, but I love both.

Nick Cave wrote the song The Mercy Seat for his 1988 Tender Prey album; his 'signature tune', it has been performed at nearly every concert since 1988. The song tells the story of a condemned man facing death on the electric chair seeking redemption in the afterlife. This song was later covered by Johnny Cash on his album, American III: Solitary Man. The american electro-industrial band Stromkern had also covered this song in 1997 on their album Flicker Like a Candle.

I don't disagree with you, because I don't know much about either musicians, but in all the live shows I've heard Nick Cave always says, "This is a song that Johnny Cash wrote."

Is there a video of Johnny Cash singing this song?

Um... Nick Cave kinda wrote the song, so I don't see how his version can get rid of the power of it. They are very different tho, which is good. The Johnny Cash one is absolutely amazing! I had no idea he covered it until I heard it at a coffee shop the other day! Great job!