Michael Jackson - Earth Song
Time: 4:24
I can't even breathe (what about us?)
What about apathy? (What about us?)
I need you (what about us?)

indifference; an absence of emotion or enthusiasm
Heard in 57 songs (872M+ combined views) — most famously in "Earth Song" by Michael Jackson.
Updated August 3, 2026
Time: 4:24
I can't even breathe (what about us?)
What about apathy? (What about us?)
I need you (what about us?)

Time: 1:39
A little bit of everything, all of the time
Apathy's a tragedy and boredom is a crime
Anything and everything, all of the time

Time: 1:58
Maybe I'm too emotional
But your apathy is like a wound in salt
Maybe I'm too emotional

Time: 4:33
Sound our dire reveille
Rouse all from our apathy
Lest we cease to be

Time: 3:31
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Apathy their stepping stone, so unfeeling
Hidden deep animosity, so deceiving

Time: 0:16
Every joke's just trolling and memes
Sad as it seems, apathy is hot
Everybody's cutthroat in the comments

Time: 2:37
And that be me, I got a king in my cavalry
Them other knights say, "Goodnight," they get apathy
You'll never catch an Adam without Eve

Time: 1:55
Three cheers for tyranny
Unapologetic apathy
'Cause there ain't no way that I'm coming back again

Time: 1:33
I like to reel it in and then spit it out
I'm frustrated by your apathy

Time: 2:28
In light of my ability to undermine
I walk away from apathy, I'm feeling fine
The agony of cynicism beckons me

Time: 0:51
Yeah, yeah
It's staring me down, wearing a crown of apathy, yeah
I'm standing around, dressed like a clown

Time: 0:22
I'm at the end of my reborn again
For those who own to apathy
You had the perfect opportunity,

Time: 3:35
Until you lose control
And think freely to smash the wall of apathy
Stop your self-importance and lift the weight off somebody else

Time: 1:45
And nobody cares
When crisis is near, their apathy calls
It's all they can hear

Time: 1:01
Make it up as I go along
Let me know when you decide apathy or suicide
Oh, baby, let the bad times roll (oh, oh)

Time: 0:43
The deadly daily spectacle erodes humanity
Jaded and desensitized, a spreading apathy
Fast forgotten thoughts and prayers for numbers on a screen (for numbers on a screen)

Time: 0:55
Me and my babe relax and catch the manic rhapsody
All reason flown as God looks on in abject apathy
A squall and all of me is a prayer in perfect piety

Time: 0:27
And I stepped in line to walk amongst the dead
Oh, apathy has rained on me
And now I'm feeling like a soggy dream

Time: 1:54
Fierce is my conviction absolute my belief
I spit at you apathy and seducer deceits
Long ago when man was King

Time: 2:05
Like lukewarm water from my mouth
I will always taste the apathy
But I won't pass it down

Time: 2:01
How do I make you fall in love with me?
Is it lost in the emptiness of apathy?
Should I fight for it like war, should I nail it down to boards

Time: 0:40
So run, get a little further away from me
Goodbye, a little bit of fire in your apathy
So burn, every little piece that you take from me

Time: 0:41
Just need an answer to the question in the taxi
My sister paints apathy like blasphemy
But I never thought names deserve such energy

Time: 1:08
I'd studied your cartoons, radio, music, TV, movies, magazines
Richard said, "Withdrawal in disgust is not the same as apathy"
A smile like the cartoon, tooth for a tooth

Time: 2:01
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Don't cover me with apathy. Don't buy and sell what I believe in.
Don't lock me in a cage.

Time: 0:17
I'm watching, watching a world die
We greet this with apathy
No longer consumed by self

Time: 1:47
And the blind man sleeps in the doorway, his home
If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could have won
♪

Time: 1:30
♪
I hate you and your apathy
You can leave you can leave

Time: 1:07
Fell in a river of illusion
And apathy
Drowning in a self-induced confusion

Time: 2:08
I should have seen this from the start
I'm haunted by your apathy
All that's left is killing me

Time: 1:02
Into your head
Filling you with apathy
Hold your breath

Time: 2:08
But can't let go
Fear breeds the hate and your apathy, empty and hollow
You lost your faith, there's no getting through

Time: 0:38
I'll do anything (everything perfect for you)
Goodbye, apathy
So long, apathy

Time: 3:05
Lately, I can't believe the things I see
This ignorance and apathy
Brings out the lunatic in me, if you care?

Time: 0:07
Hey, do what you want but don't do it around me
Idleness and dissipation breed apathy
I sit on my ass all goddamn day

Time: 1:08
(Underneath the surface)
And the apathy begets the fall
Sooner or later, it's me and all

Time: 0:43
Empty space and lethargy
Eyes ablazed with apathy
Fool me twice, the shame is on me

Time: 0:33
In life, it seems we fade away
I'm fully empty, fueled with apathy
And now I'm done with lies and everything that you've gotta say

Time: 1:41
Gold and caviar
Now won't you pour my apathy?
I'd have all my bases covered

Time: 2:40
Ocean
Ocean of apathy
We can fight the current

Time: 0:42
Confide in me
Sustain on my apathy
You're such a mess

Time: 2:11
Empty pages for the no longer young
The apathy of time laughs in my face
You say each life has its place

Time: 0:32
Space elevator, serendipity
Once more repeat it back to me, my answer to the apathy
Up front, back to the balcony

Time: 0:31
Words of euthanasia
Apathy of sick routine
Carried away with

Time: 0:00
She carries me through days of apathy
She washes over me

Time: 4:30
The rays of hope come streaming
Through the smoke of apathy
Oh, my heart be strong

Time: 0:32
What sort of life would I lead
Consumed by apathy?
Spinning out of control

Time: 0:24
And screaming from the pages
I feel the fear of apathy
Gripping me, pushing me

Time: 0:34
Conversation slides away
Turn and face the change in apathy
Take a rise to fall

Time: 1:23
A lifetimes of silence (bury, bury)
And apathy (bury, bury)
Ensure the prompt demise of our humanity, go

Time: 0:57
I do it on my bed, lying down, not trying
Apathy for me is an issue, you see
I just talk about the things upsetting me

Time: 2:48
No remorse
They have no sense of apathy
Critical mass on its way

Time: 0:54
A terminal mind
Sadomasochist, a high profile, trained in apathy
Intellect repulsed, your torn, and death will have a face

Time: 1:31
Into the world
It's such a fine line between faith and apathy
Pain can put you on your feet or bring you to your knees

Time: 1:13
No one ever gets involved
Apathy can never solve
Forced out, brave and mighty
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Time: 3:00
In radiation rose
Apathy, you tell me
Who you gonna get to do the dirty work

Time: 2:46
It comes on unstoppable tides
So, let's drink to the earth who will bury our apathy
Swallow us, sinew and bone
