Drowning Pool - Tear Away

This was originally going to be released as the follow-up to Drowning Pool's breakthrough single "Bodies," but the band's label decided it could be too divisive after 9/11 so "Sinner" was released instead. "This is the most united we've been [as a country] in a while as far as all our differences being put aside and being pretty much together to fight the evil horde across the sea," frontman Dave Williams told MTV News days after the September 11 attacks. "So putting out a song with a chorus that says 'I don't care about anybody else but me' just didn't seem like a good move."

It was eventually released as the band's third single in early 2002.

Though the song's message is clearly self-centered, Williams explained it's not entirely negative. "Everybody at one time or another in their life needs to say, 'Forget everybody else, I need to deal with me. I need to take care of myself,'" he said.

Lyrics

I'm tearing away

Pieces are falling I can't seem to make them stay

You run away

Faster and faster you can't seem to get away

Break

Hope there's a reason

For questions unanswered I just don't see everything

Yes, I'm inside you

Tell me how does it feel to feel like this

Just like I do