We Care A Lot

"We Care a Lot" is a song by Faith No More. It was released on the studio albums We Care A Lot and Introduce Yourself as well as the live album Live at the Brixton Academy, the latter two also having single releases from them on January 18, 1988 and in 1991 respectively. It was also their second most played song during live performances, behind "Epic", and sometimes featured altered lyrics and ad-libs in the Mike Patton era performances. The lyrics of this song are about a range of things the band ironically claims to 'care a lot' about, such as the LAPD, the "food that Live Aid bought", the Garbage Pail Kids and even The Transformers. The original version, released in 1985, mentioned Madonna and Mr. T. This was altered for social relevance in the 1987 re-release. There was a seven-second-long ad-lib of "The Right Stuff" by New Kids On The Block on the Live at the Brixton Academy version. The song continued to be sung by Mike Patton during the band's later tours, occasionally changing the mention of Rock Hudson in the lyrics to Rodney King. In 2005, the Discovery Channel program Dirty Jobs began to use the bridge portion of the song ("It's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it") as its theme song.

(We care a lot) (We care a lot) (We care a lot) about disasters, fires, floods and killer bees (We care a lot) about Los Angeles falling in the sea (We care a lot) about starvation and the food that Live Aid bought (We care a lot) about disease, baby Rock, Hudson, rock, yeah! It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it (We care a lot) (We care a lot) (We care a lot) about the gamblers and the pushers and the freaks (We care a lot) about the people who live off the street (We care a lot) about the welfare of all the boys and girls (We care a lot) about you people cause we're out to save the world Yeah! It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it (We care a lot) about the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines (We care a lot) about the NY, SF and LAPD (We care a lot) about you people (We care a lot) about your guns (We care a lot) about the wars you're fighting gee that looks like fun (We care a lot) about the Garbage Pail Kids, they never lie (We care a lot) about Transformers because there's more than meets the eye (We care a lot) about the little things, the bigger things we top (We care a lot) about you people, yeah you bet we care a lot Yeah! Said it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it Well it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it Said it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it Well it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it Well it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it Said it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it Said it's a dirty song but someone's gotta sing it Woah!