scapegoat

victim; someone who is punished for the errors of others

Heard in 61 songs (212M+ combined views) — most famously in "Sad But True" by Metallica.

Updated August 14, 2026

Songs Featuring “scapegoat

Metallica - Sad But True

Time: 2:04

Do, do my work

Do my dirty work, scapegoat

Do, do my deeds

Metallica - Sad But True

Suicidal Tendencies - You Can't Bring Me Down

Time: 2:11

I speak more truth than you want to hear

Scapegoat to cover up your fear

You can't bring me

Suicidal Tendencies - You Can't Bring Me Down

2Pac - Letter to the President

Time: 3:24

He's scared to look inside the eyes of a Thug Nigga

We tired of bein scapegoats for this capitalistic drug dealin

How hypocritical is Liberty?

2Pac - Letter to the President

Beartooth - Hated

Time: 1:06

In the crosshairs of the ignorant

But I am not your scapegoat anymore

All alone with my own decisions

Beartooth - Hated

Mudvayne - Dull Boy

Time: 0:56

It's not my problem, I'm not the cause

I'm not your scapegoat, I'm not your God

I'm not your martyr, I'd leave you all

Mudvayne - Dull Boy

Slipknot - Skeptic

Time: 1:20

Like things will get better

Father (brother), scapegoat (why?)

Why did we only skip this time?

Slipknot - Skeptic

DJ Quik - You'z a Ganxta

Time: 2:56

Give it up to my Creator and that you can quote

But motherfuckers still see me as a scapegoat

Yeah, like that night when Biggie died at Quincy Jones spot

DJ Quik - You'z a Ganxta

Bullet for My Valentine - The Harder the Heart (The Harder It Breaks)

Time: 0:28

I'm not the reason you're empty

I'm not your scapegoat or shoulder to cry on

I'm just a person you needed

Bullet for My Valentine - The Harder the Heart (The Harder It Breaks)

Nickelback - Where Do I Hide

Time: 0:40

First on the bad list, and you're last on mine

Lookin' for a scapegoat, long past due

Walkin' down the aisle, starin' straight at you

Nickelback - Where Do I Hide

The Raconteurs - Consoler of the Lonely

Time: 1:27

If you're lookin' for cut-throat

Singing above note, looking for a scapegoat

You're gonna find, you'll find yourself alone

The Raconteurs - Consoler of the Lonely

Rage Against the Machine - Vietnow

Time: 1:02

Sheep tremble and here come the votes

Thrown from the throat, cages and scapegoats

Undressed and blessed by the Lord

Rage Against the Machine - Vietnow

Skillet - Not Afraid

Time: 0:16

And all your toxic fumes inhaled

The scapegoat of angels who've fallen

But my soul is not for sale

Skillet - Not Afraid

Scarface - Look Me in My Eyes

Time: 1:21

Runnin in my crib, makin niggaz lie

Nigga get a scapegoat and take this 25.

You know I ain't no dopeboy, ain't never been a mule

Scarface - Look Me in My Eyes

Shinedown - The Saints of Violence And Innuendo

Time: 0:10

Not a hostage, not a scapegoat

Not a thing wrong, except you're cutthroat

Shinedown - The Saints of Violence And Innuendo

Slayer - Payback

Time: 1:54

Payback's a bitch motherfucker

I will never become your fucking scapegoat

I don't know how it feels to come up short

Slayer - Payback

Depeche Mode - Walking in My Shoes

Time: 1:48

Decency look down upon

The scapegoat fate's made of me

But I promise now, my judge and jurors

Depeche Mode - Walking in My Shoes

Trivium - Of Prometheus and the Crucifix

Time: 2:09

Make me cease to be

You've turned this scapegoat into

The lion that will devour you whole

Trivium - Of Prometheus and the Crucifix

Lorna Shore - Death Can Take Me

Time: 1:36

How the hell could I know?

I was their scapegoat

Misdirection and woe

Lorna Shore - Death Can Take Me

Baby Keem - scapegoats

Time: 0:45

I'm used to takin' backstreets, last week was nothing new

Bitches is my scapegoat, who I made this tape for?

I tell the story two years later, for now, the case closed

Baby Keem - scapegoats

Ayra Starr - Running

Time: 0:25

I'm treading carefully

'Cause I don't wanna be a scapegoat

Once bitten, twice shy, I dey hear word

Ayra Starr - Running

Ed Sheeran - A Little More

Time: 1:08

You see the problem is you 'cause you're a prick

I know that I'm your scapegoat whenever the rain falls

Whenever you slip or when you're in a dip

Ed Sheeran - A Little More

B.o.B - $tacks of Dreams

Time: 0:32

I don't blend in with nobody

The scapegoat I guess I'm Bin Laden

Yeah, yeah

B.o.B - $tacks of Dreams

Nightwish - Slaying the Dreamer

Time: 2:00

Blame me, it's me

Coward, a good-for-nothing scapegoat

Dumb kid, living a dream

Nightwish - Slaying the Dreamer

Twiztid - Whoop-Whoop

Time: 0:30

Front page, blame it on us

Scapegoat for all, in Twiztid we trust

In the tour bus, headed for the White House lawn

Twiztid - Whoop-Whoop

Anthrax - Potters Field

Time: 1:32

I was born to die

I'll always be your scapegoat

You'll never take the blame

Anthrax - Potters Field

Marilyn Manson - Better of Two Evils

Time: 1:19

(Hey)

I'll be your scapegoat, I'll be your savior

I'm the better of two evils (yeah, yeah yeah)

Marilyn Manson - Better of Two Evils

Jane's Addiction - Ted, Just Admit It...

Time: 6:10

You talk too much

To your scapegoat

That's what I say

Jane's Addiction - Ted, Just Admit It...

Sam Fender - Use [Live]

Time: 1:15

So don't you claw at my ankle

They use my name as a scapegoat to cover their back

But I won't ever attack, I move against the compulsion

Sam Fender - Use [Live]

Fear Factory - Scapegoat

Time: 3:54

Scapegoat

Scapegoat

Fear Factory - Scapegoat

Adam Sandler - The Goat Song

Time: 6:31

And Ill probably never walk straight again

I guess you'd call me a scapegoat

A punching bag for the Old Man to mock

Adam Sandler - The Goat Song

Joy Division - The Sound of Music

Time: 1:43

Systematically degraded,

Emotionally a scapegoat,

I can't see it getting better.

Joy Division - The Sound of Music

De La Soul - Ghetto Thang

Time: 1:14

To hide or just erase the glowing note

Of how to use the ghetto as a scapegoat

Truth from Trugoy's mouth is here to scar

De La Soul - Ghetto Thang

Parkway Drive - Absolute Power

Time: 0:41

Primetime, the noose at our throats

Our liberties hands run with blood of the scapegoats

So tell me, how can we demonize

Parkway Drive - Absolute Power

Ice Cube - My Skin Is My Sin

Time: 2:03

You'll gun down a congregation in jesus' name

Using me as a scapegoat, well cracker don't sleep

Far from a goat, more like a black sheep

Ice Cube - My Skin Is My Sin

Modest Mouse - Blame It on the Tetons

Time: 0:06

Blame it on the Tetons, yeah, I need a scapegoat now

Modest Mouse - Blame It on the Tetons

Amon Amarth - Bastards of a Lying Breed

Time: 2:22

So throw your stone of guilt at me, point your finger, curse my name

Your scapegoat I will never be, I won't take the blame

Amon Amarth - Bastards of a Lying Breed

Gary Moore - Speak for Yourself

Time: 0:17

Banners in hand

Looking for another scapegoat

Try to take away the things they don't understand

Gary Moore - Speak for Yourself

Machine Head - Bay of Pigs

Time: 0:00

I gotta rise

I'm sick of your lies, and I won't be your scapegoat now

Ain't gonna bend

Machine Head - Bay of Pigs

Pennywise - Enemy

Time: 0:40

I'm not the enemy

(You want a scapegoat for your crimes)

You're just like me, me, me

Pennywise - Enemy

Prince - I Rock, Therefore I Am

Time: 4:32

Grab the devil by the throat

Make him play the scapegoat

(Rock) In the runnin' with the bucket of cuttin's

Prince - I Rock, Therefore I Am

Elton John - Oscar Wilde Gets Out

Time: 0:18

Freedom for the scapegoat leaving Reading jail

Rheumy eyes just pierced his heart like crucifixion nails

Elton John - Oscar Wilde Gets Out

Tech N9ne - Believe

Time: 1:59

Why you wanna hate folks?

And hurt each other using color as the scapegoat

We all struggle to bubble we gotta huddle up

Tech N9ne - Believe

Aesop Rock - The Tugboat Complex, Pt. 3

Time: 0:09

My box cost siphon third rail juice from lost poets

Inhabit ocean bottoms with a bitter rotten scapegoat pardons (note to self)

Don't bargain at martyr parliament rallies

Aesop Rock - The Tugboat Complex, Pt. 3

Jeffrey Lewis - End Result

Time: 0:46

I am a sample

I am a scapegoat

Of useless, futureless, endless, mindless ideas

Jeffrey Lewis - End Result

Iron Maiden - Public Enema Number One

Time: 1:29

The politicians gamble and lie to save their skins

And the Press get fed the scapegoats

Public Enema number one

Iron Maiden - Public Enema Number One

Lil Wayne - Beat the Shit

Time: 3:31

Fuck it, man - ring me up

Fuckin' right I skate, ho - pussy is my scapegoat

And all these pussy-ass niggas that's hatin', kiss my ass, besos

Lil Wayne - Beat the Shit

Sebadoh - Prince-S

Time: 0:27

No, it can't

Eleven times a scapegoat

It? s not a hug but a choke

Sebadoh - Prince-S

Elvis Costello - Miss MacBeth

Time: 2:12

She rose to the bait

Even a scapegoat

Must have someone date

Elvis Costello - Miss MacBeth

Liars - Perpetual Village

Time: 2:30

I might just start to believe in trust

This kind disease, a new scapegoat

For my time to leave. New to all unknown

Liars - Perpetual Village

R.E.M. - Falls to Climb

Time: 3:11

For each and every gathering

A scapegoat falls to climb

As I step forward, silently

R.E.M. - Falls to Climb

METZ - Glass Eye

Time: 2:10

I'll walk through walls for you, I'll be the

Scapegoat you can blame (scapegoat you can blame)

I'll give you everything I have

METZ - Glass Eye

Kae Tempest - Water in the Rain

Time: 0:36

And I'm in pieces

I scapegoat the workload

The traumas from the past

Kae Tempest - Water in the Rain

Sick of It All - Goatless

Time: 0:43

We'll say they're the cause

They'll be the scapegoat now

Goatless - we'd be on the spot

Sick of It All - Goatless

Geto Boys - Trophy

Time: 1:00

I'm under a microscope, for the songs I wrote

Cause the gangsta of love don't scapegoat

I tell it like it is that's why they don't ban me

Geto Boys - Trophy

Napalm Death - Rise Above

Time: 1:49

External distinctions

Used as scapegoats to problems

Channelling our aggression

Napalm Death - Rise Above

Kid Rock - Let's Ride

Time: 0:36

Used as a scapegoat, taped to the wall

Bruised and abused on some foreign soil

Kid Rock - Let's Ride

P.M. Dawn - Plastic

Time: 0:50

So now I'm accused of spikin' the punch

And I'll be the scapegoat for fakin' the funk

But when they set up another prince time beef

P.M. Dawn - Plastic

Steve Wariner - I'm Your Man

Time: 0:34

I'll be your hero with a halo

Be your zero or your scapegoat

I got the goods I got the stuff I got the plan

Steve Wariner - I'm Your Man

Super Furry Animals - Bleed Forever

Time: 2:38

Men in tailcoats absorb the cries

Milk the scapegoat

Milk it dry

Super Furry Animals - Bleed Forever

The Posies - Every Bitter Drop

Time: 2:01

To let you know, to let you know

Don't pretend the scapegoat's heavy

I see little stacked against you

The Posies - Every Bitter Drop

Reel Big Fish - Somebody Loved Me

Time: 1:27

When you lay blame

I'm your scapegoat

Ears burning red

Reel Big Fish - Somebody Loved Me