The only thing that's real

It was dirt. In all versions. The "shit" change was elsewhere in the song.

Original:

I wear this crown of shit

Abomination:

I wear this crown of thorns

Empire of dirt.

The shit was "crown of shit" in Trent Reznor's original. In Johnny Cash's cover he changed it to "crown of thorns".

...amazing

Thank you for sharing, glad you still have ten digits.

Your finger good tho right? If you go knuckle first it's usually losing skin and a learning lesson. I don't talk about the other way

Yikes!

Two recent finger injuries to make you feel better!

I sliced my thumb open vertically with a pocket knife trying to cut a zip tie off of something. My thumb looked like a snakes tongue, and now I have a scar that makes my thumb look like a dick head.

Same thumb, just post healing, I was helping a friend move, grabbed a bicycle by the wheel to put it on top of the truck. Wheel spun, bike frame spun the opposite direction, the spoke cut into my thumb, and had my buddy not reacted quickly (or if he had simply grabbed the bike and pulled instead of just stabilizing it), I likely would have lost the thumb entirely. Broke the bone, spoke cut all the way to the bone. It suuuuuucked.

What have I become?