profane

irreligious; characterized by profanity or cursing

Heard in 54 songs (182M+ combined views) — most famously in "BAD!" by XXXTENTACION.

Updated August 12, 2026

Songs Featuring “profane

XXXTENTACION - BAD!

Time: 0:07

Shawty heard you bad, word? So profane

Something like a bad word, want your love

XXXTENTACION - BAD!

R3hab - Bad!

Time: 0:00

Shawty, heard you bad, word? So profane

Somethin' like a bad, word, want your love

R3hab - Bad!

Alanis Morissette - Guardian

Time: 0:35

You, you who has smiled when you're in pain

You who has soldiered through the profane

They were distracted and shut down

Alanis Morissette - Guardian

Behemoth - The Satanist

Time: 2:49

I cast my halo from perdition's clay

Behold my bliss profane

Born of a lie, condemned to lurk

Behemoth - The Satanist

Helloween - Hey Lord!

Time: 1:07

Hey Lord! What is it all about?

Good or profane, odd or even

All is face to face

Helloween - Hey Lord!

Slayer - Hate Worldwide

Time: 0:24

My scars insane

My life profane

I deny, defy

Slayer - Hate Worldwide

Placebo - Days Before You Came

Time: 1:05

It always seemed enticing

To be naked and profane

There is no denying

Placebo - Days Before You Came

Dead Can Dance - Xavier

Time: 1:31

Fraught with danger,

The lives you led were judged profane

Hatred enfolds us,

Dead Can Dance - Xavier

The Alan Parsons Project - Nothing Left to Lose

Time: 2:22

Nothing sacred or profane

Everything to gain

The Alan Parsons Project - Nothing Left to Lose

Machine Head - Old

Time: 0:00

I am the man that defends all things profane

6000 years is the time that I shall reign

Machine Head - Old

Dimmu Borgir - Entrance

Time: 4:04

Dead spirits communion

Unorthodox profane void

Gardens, temples, palaces

Dimmu Borgir - Entrance

Dire Straits - On Every Street

Time: 0:12

Your injured looks

The sacred and profane

Pleasure and the pain

Dire Straits - On Every Street

The Black Crowes - Profane Prophecy

Time: 0:58

My pedigree and debauchery is my claim to fame (ooh-hoo)

This profane prophecy has got me in it sweet embrace

So I sing my lovesick blues, sip my sour grapes (ooh-hoo)

The Black Crowes - Profane Prophecy

Biz Markie - Pickin' Boogers

Time: 1:20

Headed up to the Rooftop, ridin' the D train

When the man sittin' next to me was so profane

He'd stick his finger up his nose, then do a drain

Biz Markie - Pickin' Boogers

Rainbow Kitten Surprise - Polite Company

Time: 0:06

She's the edge between the sacred and profane

And means at least one other language Y would never speak in Polite Company

Rainbow Kitten Surprise - Polite Company

Jason Isbell - Children Of Children

Time: 1:05

How could we expect to stay in love

When neither knew the meaning of the difference of sacred and profane

I was riding on my mother's hip, she was shorter than the corn

Jason Isbell - Children Of Children

Morbid Angel - Dominate

Time: 1:23

All the power our Lord bestows

With a bow and a kiss profane

Be a victor or be a victim

Morbid Angel - Dominate

Deafheaven - Worthless Animal

Time: 0:00

With all life profane

The ladles cradling

Deafheaven - Worthless Animal

Whitechapel - The Abysmal Gospel

Time: 2:17

Humility, I shall detest

I am profane (I am omega)

The alpha is ripped from his head

Whitechapel - The Abysmal Gospel

Pixies - In the Arms of Mrs. Mark of Cain

Time: 1:01

If you doubt

And you think that I'm profane

I'm in the arms of Mrs. Mark of Cain

Pixies - In the Arms of Mrs. Mark of Cain

Heart - Black on Black II

Time: 0:52

Like pleasure and a little pain

The sacred and profane

Ice and fire counteract like black on black

Heart - Black on Black II

Pat Benatar - My Clone Sleeps Alone

Time: 0:29

She's out on her own, forever

She's programmed to work hard, she's never profane

She won't go insane, not ever

Pat Benatar - My Clone Sleeps Alone

Bathory - Blood Fire Death

Time: 1:43

Who rides death's cold wind and walks disguised among

All you vagrant souls of profane disbeliefs

False prophets and deceivers shall swing from the trees

Bathory - Blood Fire Death

Corrosion of Conformity - Great Purification

Time: 2:55

No lesson was ever learned - our fate stays the same

Profane civilization will perish in flame

All love lost will be reborn

Corrosion of Conformity - Great Purification

Exodus - Architect of Pain

Time: 2:13

Let me paint you a portrait of a man

Whose very name would define in times to come all things profane

Born unto privilege child of aristocracy

Exodus - Architect of Pain

Grateful Dead - Victim or the Crime

Time: 1:21

What truth is proof against all lies?

When sacred fails before profane

The wisest man is deemed insane

Grateful Dead - Victim or the Crime

Symphony X - In My Darkest Hour

Time: 1:21

Darksome master of pain

Incarnation of all that's profane

Without a prayer

Symphony X - In My Darkest Hour

India.Arie - Flowers

Time: 1:01

That's why I wanna give you your flowers now

You're the sacred in the face of the profane

You held the mirror up and helped me face the pain

India.Arie - Flowers

Of Montreal - Spiteful Intervention

Time: 2:40

Your kindness feels like blasphemy or some sick education on the limits of humanity

So I profane the laws of some Victorian garbage

And listen to you smashing up my studio again

Of Montreal - Spiteful Intervention

Sleater-Kinney - Bad Dance

Time: 1:12

And defile you on the floor

Well, I'm indulgent, I'm impulsive, I'm profane

Doesn't matter how long you last

Sleater-Kinney - Bad Dance

Pantera - The Underground in America [Early Mix]

Time: 0:40

We thrive on what's stronger than most of the world

Glass breaks/the dimming lights/sweat, heat and profane debate/

the smart ones stay on the outside/while drunken heads and

Pantera - The Underground in America [Early Mix]

Suzanne Vega - It Makes Me Wonder

Time: 0:20

As we explore the carnal score

Of sacred and profane

Sulky boy won't drink his milk

Suzanne Vega - It Makes Me Wonder

Patterson Hood - The Forks of Cypress

Time: 2:23

Something so forbidden that I'll carry it to hell

And burn it down there with me with lips that speak profane

Of a love that burned as hot as my secret shame

Patterson Hood - The Forks of Cypress

Cradle of Filth - Devil To The Metal

Time: 0:45

Uh

A poetess in night's profane station

Threading lies like silver seas

Cradle of Filth - Devil To The Metal

Dawes - Stay Down

Time: 1:48

The girl you loved and every word you sung

All the profane that you thought profound

It's time now to stay down

Dawes - Stay Down

Georges Brassens - Le fantôme

Time: 1:30

Plein de faux plis et de coutures

Et dans ce siècle profane

Les gens ne croient plus guère à nous

Georges Brassens - Le fantôme

Solomon Burke - Diamond In Your Mind

Time: 0:14

I've been to parties where I've had to be flown

They said everything was sacred, nothing was profane

And money was something that you throw off the back of trains

Solomon Burke - Diamond In Your Mind

Paradise Lost - As Horizons End

Time: 1:19

In this shower of pretence

Desire profane

You never see again

Paradise Lost - As Horizons End

Jawbox - Iodine

Time: 1:10

Iodine night sky, diagnose this time: sickness or a crime?

profane something fine; so you define.

Say it like you mean it, boy.

Jawbox - Iodine

Teenage Fanclub - Verisimilitude

Time: 0:20

I'm not, I just said it 'cause I thought I would

I always feel the need to profane

I've always said fuck when I thought I could

Teenage Fanclub - Verisimilitude

Joni Mitchell - Ethiopia

Time: 0:53

On and on, the human need

On and on, the human greed profanes

Ethiopia, Ethiopia, Ethiopia

Joni Mitchell - Ethiopia

Chris Smither - I Am the Ride

Time: 2:04

I never stop to ask them where we're going

Yes, but the holy, the profane

Are all helplessly insane

Chris Smither - I Am the Ride

Mercury Rev - A Drop in Time

Time: 0:36

And softly linger there

Her words profane, her mouth divine

I tried to sympathize with both sides

Mercury Rev - A Drop in Time

Bolt Thrower - Profane Creation

Time: 2:01

Profane creation, the dawn of a new age

Technology's progression, over man machines reign

Bolt Thrower - Profane Creation

Chassol - Rude Crude Lude

Time: 1:16

Bawdy, Naughty, Saucy, Raunchy, Rude, Crude, Lewd

Lascivious, Indecent, Profane, Obscene, Blue, Off-color

Bawdy, Naughty, Saucy, Raunchy, Rude, Crude, Lewd

Chassol - Rude Crude Lude

Baroness - The Sweetest Curse

Time: 0:35

Curse with me

Profane (and discreet)

Make her move

Baroness - The Sweetest Curse

Hate Eternal - Victorious Reign

Time: 0:56

Sworn to this alliance, we only speak of truths

Heretical in its shape, is it profane?

Devotees to the cause, sacrilegious in its form

Hate Eternal - Victorious Reign

Super Furry Animals - Fire in My Heart

Time: 1:33

Has some questions

For the watchdogs of the profane

And i ask is it sad

Super Furry Animals - Fire in My Heart

American Football - Patron Saint of Pale

Time: 3:10

I can't bathe in your malaise anymore

I'd rather be profane than chased and bored

American Football - Patron Saint of Pale

Ought - These 3 Things

Time: 2:39

Must remember to dance alone at night

Keep the profane in the light

I have only got this life and it merits this

Ought - These 3 Things

Lil Tjay - Hot Sauce

Time: 1:09

I said, "Whoa, baby, yeah, you better chill out"

Shawty like, "Bad", words so profane, somethin' like, "Bad"

Girl, I want your love, call me when you can

Lil Tjay - Hot Sauce

Duncan Sheik - Everyone, Everywhere

Time: 1:50

Some say sacred

Some profane

There are no distinctions

Duncan Sheik - Everyone, Everywhere

Jean Ferrat - La Petite Fleur Qui Tombe

Time: 0:20

Écoutez, écoutez

La petite fleur profane, celle qui jamais ne fane

Place de la Liberté

Jean Ferrat - La Petite Fleur Qui Tombe

Bad Religion - The Profane Rights Of Man

Time: 0:32

The principle

Of the profane rights of man

Bad Religion - The Profane Rights Of Man