Apocalyptica "I Don't Care"

"I Don't Care" is a song by Finnish rock band Apocalyptica, the song is released as the third and final single from their sixth album Worlds Collide. The song features Adam Gontier of Three Days Grace on lead vocals. The song reached #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Trackschart for one week and #2 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart where it spent a year in the top 20.

Despite the fact that the song was released towards the end of the 2000's, "I Don't Care" made it to #96 on the Billboard Hot 100 Rock Songs of the Decade chart.

A radio edit version of this song exists where most of the explicit content, including the chorus's second half, are replaced. The radio edit version is available only on the single and the US and Canadian edition of the album. In a February 2008 interview for Brave Words and Bloody Knuckles magazine Eicca Toppinen from Apocalyptica explains why there are two versions of the song: "Actually we’ve reworked the song. Adam [Gontier] originally recorded his vocals in the spring (of 2007) with our producer (Jacob Hellner), but Adam wasn’t entirely happy with the result. So a couple of weeks ago, Adam went to the studio with (3DG producer) Howard Benson to record a new version of the song. It’s really great. It will actually be on the US/Canadian edition."

"I Don't Care" was based upon the instrumental track "Love Song", written by Eicca Toppinen for the Black Ice movie soundtrack.

Eicca Toppinen told about the song in an interview for Dutch metal webzine in 2007: "I wrote some of the lyrics to "I Don’t Care." Max Martin wrote most of the lyrics, though. The song is about a fantasy and not about anyone in particular, but I think everyone can find a sense of truth in the lyrics.” 

I try to make it through my life, in my way, there's you 
I try to make it through these lies, and that's all I do 
Just don't deny it, 
Don't try to fight this ,and deal with it 
and that's just part of it, 
If you were dead or still alive 
I don't care, I don't care 
Just go and leave this all behind 
Cause i swear (i swear),i don't care 
I try to make you see my side 
Always trying to stay in line 
But your eyes see right through 
That's all they do 
I'm getting buried in this place 
I got no room you’re in my face 
don't say anything just go away 
If you were dead or still alive 
I don't care, I don't care

Just go and leave this all behind 
Cause i swear (I swear) I don't care 
love changing everything 
You won't be left for me

You won't be left for me 
If you were dead or still alive 
I don't care, I don't care 
Just and leave this all behind 
Cause I swear (I swear)I don't care 
If you were dead or still alive 
I don't care (I don't care), I don't care (I don't care) 
Just go ahead and leave this all behind 
I don't care (I swear), I don't care 
At all...

~networld