Metallica - Sad But True
Time: 2:04
Do, do my work
Do my dirty work, scapegoat
Do, do my deeds

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
Time: 2:04
Do, do my work
Do my dirty work, scapegoat
Do, do my deeds

Time: 2:11
I speak more truth than you want to hear
Scapegoat to cover up your fear
You can't bring me

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?

Time: 1:06
In the crosshairs of the ignorant
But I am not your scapegoat anymore
All alone with my own decisions

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

Time: 1:20
Like things will get better
Father (brother), scapegoat (why?)
Why did we only skip this time?

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

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

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

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

Time: 1:02
Sheep tremble and here come the votes
Thrown from the throat, cages and scapegoats
Undressed and blessed by the Lord

Time: 0:16
And all your toxic fumes inhaled
The scapegoat of angels who've fallen
But my soul is not for sale

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

Time: 0:10
Not a hostage, not a scapegoat
Not a thing wrong, except you're cutthroat

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

Time: 1:48
Decency look down upon
The scapegoat fate's made of me
But I promise now, my judge and jurors

Time: 2:09
Make me cease to be
You've turned this scapegoat into
The lion that will devour you whole

Time: 1:36
How the hell could I know?
I was their scapegoat
Misdirection and woe

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

Time: 0:25
I'm treading carefully
'Cause I don't wanna be a scapegoat
Once bitten, twice shy, I dey hear word

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

Time: 0:32
I don't blend in with nobody
The scapegoat I guess I'm Bin Laden
Yeah, yeah

Time: 2:00
Blame me, it's me
Coward, a good-for-nothing scapegoat
Dumb kid, living a dream

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

Time: 1:32
I was born to die
I'll always be your scapegoat
You'll never take the blame

Time: 1:19
(Hey)
I'll be your scapegoat, I'll be your savior
I'm the better of two evils (yeah, yeah yeah)

Time: 6:10
You talk too much
To your scapegoat
That's what I say

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
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Time: 3:54
♪
Scapegoat
Scapegoat

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

Time: 1:43
Systematically degraded,
Emotionally a scapegoat,
I can't see it getting better.

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

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

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

Time: 0:06
Blame it on the Tetons, yeah, I need a scapegoat now
♪

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
♪

Time: 0:17
Banners in hand
Looking for another scapegoat
Try to take away the things they don't understand

Time: 0:00
I gotta rise
I'm sick of your lies, and I won't be your scapegoat now
Ain't gonna bend

Time: 0:40
I'm not the enemy
(You want a scapegoat for your crimes)
You're just like me, me, me

Time: 4:32
Grab the devil by the throat
Make him play the scapegoat
(Rock) In the runnin' with the bucket of cuttin's

Time: 0:18
Freedom for the scapegoat leaving Reading jail
Rheumy eyes just pierced his heart like crucifixion nails

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

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

Time: 0:46
I am a sample
I am a scapegoat
Of useless, futureless, endless, mindless ideas

Time: 1:29
The politicians gamble and lie to save their skins
And the Press get fed the scapegoats
Public Enema number one

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

Time: 0:27
No, it can't
Eleven times a scapegoat
It? s not a hug but a choke

Time: 2:12
She rose to the bait
Even a scapegoat
Must have someone date

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

Time: 3:11
For each and every gathering
A scapegoat falls to climb
As I step forward, silently

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

Time: 0:36
And I'm in pieces
I scapegoat the workload
The traumas from the past

Time: 0:43
We'll say they're the cause
They'll be the scapegoat now
Goatless - we'd be on the spot

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

Time: 1:49
External distinctions
Used as scapegoats to problems
Channelling our aggression

Time: 0:36
Used as a scapegoat, taped to the wall
Bruised and abused on some foreign soil

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

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

Time: 2:38
Men in tailcoats absorb the cries
Milk the scapegoat
Milk it dry

Time: 2:01
To let you know, to let you know
Don't pretend the scapegoat's heavy
I see little stacked against you

Time: 1:27
When you lay blame
I'm your scapegoat
Ears burning red
