Inside New Nickelback Song

Nickelback will be showing off their soft side on their next single - it's a tribute to singer Chad Kroeger's dead grandmother.

"Woke Up This Morning" was written in January 2000, a few days after the songwriter lost his beloved gran.

He says, "I was just really unimpressed with the way the whole funeral took place. I felt it could have been handled a lot better."

"It was in this really small town where she met my grandfather and they started the family. That's why the song goes, 'I paid my last respects this morning on an early grave/ Already said goodbye, nothing left to say/ A tiny church, a tiny town and not a tear was spent/ Not how I wanted it, I'm hating all of this.'"

The song also deals with Kroeger's dysfunctional relationship with his ex-girlfriend Jodi.

He adds, "That's where the next lines come from - 'I've been a loser all my life, I'm not about to change/ If you don't like it there's the door, nobody made you stay/ Ain't a woman on the planet who can deal with this/ Not how I wanted it, I'm hating all of this.'

"The whole thing's about a month in my life when I felt like crap."