ruthless

pitiless; without mercy or pity

Heard in 48 songs (589M+ combined views) — most famously in "For Whom The Bell Tolls" by Metallica.

Updated August 4, 2026

Songs Featuring “ruthless

Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls

Time: 3:26

Blackened roar, massive roar fills the crumbling sky

Shattered goal fills his soul with a ruthless cry

Stranger now are his eyes to this mystery

Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Foe Tha Love Of $

Time: 2:55

Rip straight when makin' me grip with-a me click

Rollin' with Ruthless, the thug I be (for the love of money)

Me put 'em in mud, buck 'em, and pump blood

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Foe Tha Love Of $

YoungBoy Never Broke Again - I Hate YoungBoy

Time: 0:47

Used to fuck with Gucci 'til I seen he like them pussy niggas (bitch)

Mama know I'm ruthless, talkin' stupid, make me bust a nigga (bust it)

They know I'm on house arrest, so they feel like they official (yeah, yeah)

YoungBoy Never Broke Again - I Hate YoungBoy

Backstreet Boys - We've Got It Goin' On

Time: 1:24

Straight up funky when I get with you

I get ruthless when I get wet

Keep the party packed in my corner

Backstreet Boys - We've Got It Goin' On

Drake - Only You Freestyle

Time: 3:16

CPS murder in the dock like Rupert

'Cause lil' bro went and done him so ruthless

Got this cutie, she half Cuban

Drake - Only You Freestyle

Rick Ross - Mafia Music

Time: 1:54

But that was better than roofin', that shit be bad for ya skin

Niggas was ruthless, Lord knows that I sinned

But I thought about my future and the loops I could pin

Rick Ross - Mafia Music

Eazy-E - Ole School S***

Time: 1:25

And now you see you can't handle me

I give a shout to Tonel and the Ruthless fuckin' family

Yeah, out with the old, in with the motherfuckin' new

Eazy-E - Ole School S***

Popcaan - Toni-Ann Singh

Time: 1:59

Fine baby, no worry

No go look face, baby, your body be ruthless

Baby, it's you that I do best

Popcaan - Toni-Ann Singh

Taylor Swift - State of Grace

Time: 3:05

This is the worthwhile fight

Love is a ruthless game

Unless you play it good and right

Taylor Swift - State of Grace

Anuel AA - Mi Voz Cuesta Un Billón

Time: 3:08

I'm the most brutal and vicious and

Most ruthless champion there's ever been

There's no one can stop me

Anuel AA - Mi Voz Cuesta Un Billón

Polo G - Clueless

Time: 0:11

I'm downtown Chicago, on Michigan Ave with Polo and we on some woo shit (woo shit)

I walk into Saks Fifth with a bad bitch, and we both feelin' ruthless (ruthless)

If I see a opp in the spot, I look him in his face like, "You ain't gon' do shit" (nah)

Polo G - Clueless

SZA - Diamond Boy (DTM)

Time: 1:25

Usually, I make 'em work so hard (So hard)

But the truth is I'm ruthless about you, why waste more time?

'Cause it's 2 a.m., and I'm on again, don't look at me like that

SZA - Diamond Boy (DTM)

Eagles - Life in the Fast Lane

Time: 0:43

He had a nasty reputation as a cruel dude

They said he was ruthless, they said he was crude

They had one thing in common

Eagles - Life in the Fast Lane

N.W.A - Quiet on tha Set

Time: 0:13

Yo (hit it)

Ruthless, plenty of that and much more

So at the party, Ren is controllin' the floor

N.W.A - Quiet on tha Set

Aerosmith - Lightning Strikes

Time: 1:29

It's an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth

It's so ruthless when they fight

When the lightning strikes (ooh)

Aerosmith - Lightning Strikes

J. Cole - Drum n Bass

Time: 0:26

Uh, you hear my words, but don't got no clue 'bout who I really am

From shark-infested waters, phrases like that make me sound harder and more ruthless

But the truth is that I merely swam, out the stolo, semis blam willy-nilly

J. Cole - Drum n Bass

Dr. Dre - The Chronic (Intro)

Time: 1:22

I don't love Jerry

I don't love Ruthless Records

Frankly, I don't love nothin' they got to do with

Dr. Dre - The Chronic (Intro)

Twenty One Pilots - Choker / Stressed Out / Migraine / Morph / Holding On To You [Livestream Version]

Time: 6:02

It's me suspended in a defenseless test

Being tested by a ruthless examinant

That's represented best by my depress... ing thoughts

Twenty One Pilots - Choker / Stressed Out / Migraine / Morph / Holding On To You [Livestream Version]

Florence Welch - I Come Apart

Time: 2:29

Made my bed, lied in it, then you slept with me

It's ruthless, she the closest thing next to me

The truth is, that she blew it, and you left with me

Florence Welch - I Come Apart

Wu-Tang Clan - Shame on a Nigga

Time: 0:40

Blaow! How you like me now? Don't fuck the style

Ruthless, wild, do you wanna

Get your teeth knocked the fuck out?

Wu-Tang Clan - Shame on a Nigga

Young Thug - Respect It

Time: 1:40

Spent a quarter million on the coochie (ayy)

Wednesday, he had ranned up on me, I got ruthless

Thursday, I'm Ferrari horsin', niggas moosin', yeah

Young Thug - Respect It

Nas - Get Light

Time: 0:29

All sorts of bosses who walk the walk

Look how long the blocks is, ruthless

Close range they shoot shit

Nas - Get Light

Queens of the Stone Age - Obscenery

Time: 0:52

Hurrah, the obscenery's fucking useless

Jihad me in obscenery, born ruthless

Until your river's run dry

Queens of the Stone Age - Obscenery

Lil Wayne - Glory

Time: 3:54

You see rolled up dollar bills filled wit' snot and mucus

My tie is Lucas, my driver's crusin', my partner's ruthless

My flower's rootless, my pocket's roofless, she poppin' roofies

Lil Wayne - Glory

Jessie Reyez - INTRUDERS

Time: 0:41

I kill all intruders

'Cause my love is ruthless

So please no intruders

Jessie Reyez - INTRUDERS

Migos - Bad And Boujee

Time: 0:28

Cookin' up dope with a Uzi (blaow)

My niggas is savage, ruthless (savage)

We got 30s and hundred-rounds too (grah)

Migos - Bad And Boujee

Fleetwood Mac - Destiny Rules

Time: 1:17

It appears to me that destiny rules

And the spirits are ruthless with the paths they choose

It's not being together, it's just following the rules

Fleetwood Mac - Destiny Rules

Takeoff - To The Bone

Time: 1:59

But still, nah, don't you try me

I'm ruthless and like breakin' all the rules and shorty bad like that

Fatigue attack, but know that I'm a mack, bitch, I'm a Cadillac (Cadillac)

Takeoff - To The Bone

Grandmaster Flash - Beat Street

Time: 4:30

The sound of the whole world caught on fire

The ruthless struggle, the deperate gamble

The game that left the whole world in shambles

Grandmaster Flash - Beat Street

2Pac - Tha' Lunatic

Time: 2:19

Thought you was a pimp, now you're simpin for my solo

Oh no, not another new jack, swearin that he's ruthless

Ducked, and now he's fucked and left toothless

2Pac - Tha' Lunatic

Muse - JFK

Time: 0:00

For we are opposed around the world

By a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy

That relies primarily on covert means

Muse - JFK

Alanis Morissette - UR

Time: 2:46

Big time you are

Ruthless you are

Precious you are

Alanis Morissette - UR

Ice Cube - Growin' Up

Time: 3:25

Back down memory lane

I'm Ruthless, I'm Ruthlesso

Street Knowledge, Lench Mob

Ice Cube - Growin' Up

Gucci Mane - Yeah Whoa

Time: 2:18

My whole team be ballin', ain't no one sittin' on no benches (no)

This So Icy and 1017 and we so Rich and Ruthless (yeah)

Pull up in some food, just drop my top, I'm feelin' cookies (yoom)

Gucci Mane - Yeah Whoa

Eminem - Richard

Time: 1:17

With the pliers, like "AAHHH!"

Only a ruthless bastard would do this

Take a toothles bitch with no taste buds to Ruth Chris

Eminem - Richard

Maren Morris - Circles Around This Town

Time: 0:50

Somethin' worth singin' about

I've been kind and I've been ruthless

Yeah, I got here, but the truth is

Maren Morris - Circles Around This Town

Smashing Pumpkins - Rotten Apples

Time: 1:36

Restless in my speech

And ruthless in my teach

So vacant in my breach

Smashing Pumpkins - Rotten Apples

Sia - Insidiously

Time: 1:55

How things can change in a good week

Call me ruthless

But you stretch the truth, oh yes

Sia - Insidiously

DJ Premier - Black Opium

Time: 0:48

Protect me from these shooters

Nice suits, so religious, these muthafuckas ruthless

Blonde broads, cuban cigars, shit I get the true

DJ Premier - Black Opium

Future - Rent Money

Time: 2:53

Ayy gimme pounds, gimme bricks, I'm a nuisance

I make the blogs with ya bitch cause I'm ruthless

I make the blogs with ya bitch cause I'm ruthless

Future - Rent Money

Kacey Musgraves - Ruthless

Time: 0:39

But if anyone tried to hurt you

I would be ruthless for you

Do something crazy, you know I would, baby

Kacey Musgraves - Ruthless

Dolly Parton - Blue Valley Songbird

Time: 0:32

But there was no peace in the valley

Her daddy, a cruel, ruthless man

Used and abused her mind and her body

Dolly Parton - Blue Valley Songbird

John Denver - You Say That The Battle Is Over

Time: 1:01

There are those who would tear down the sun

And most men are ruthless

But some will still weep

John Denver - You Say That The Battle Is Over

Mac Miller - DJ's Chord Organ

Time: 3:17

Tell us the truth about it

Cocaine is ruthless

I know the truth about it

Mac Miller - DJ's Chord Organ

Andrew Lloyd Webber - Growltiger's Last Stand

Time: 9:16

The ruthless foe pressed forward in stubborn rank on rank

Growltiger to his vast surprise was forced to walk the plank

Andrew Lloyd Webber - Growltiger's Last Stand

Hank Snow - My Friends

Time: 2:38

And I prayed for a swift release

From the ruthless ones who would not leave

Me to die alone in peace

Hank Snow - My Friends

Jadakiss - Y. O. (Youthful Offenders)

Time: 1:40

And it's violent, so it's mandatory years on the back

Ruthless, I'm just tryna tell you what the truth is

He ain't even wanna hustle, he just want to shoot shit

Jadakiss - Y. O. (Youthful Offenders)

The Smashing Pumpkins - Ramona

Time: 0:33

Black makes my blood char

I know I'm ruthless

Aint the kind to see

The Smashing Pumpkins - Ramona