sloth

laziness; a disinclination to work or exert yourself

Heard in 40 songs (51M+ combined views) — most famously in "Black Mambo" by Glass Animals.

Updated August 12, 2026

Songs Featuring “sloth”

Glass Animals - Black Mambo

Time: 0:25

What'll it be now, Mr. Mole?

Whispers sloth in curls of smoke

Take a back seat, or play pharaoh

Glass Animals - Black Mambo

Nicki Minaj - Red Ruby Da Sleeze

Time: 2:30

Just a bunch of airheads like Kelly Bundy

Man, these bitches so slow, man, they slower than sloths

600 horse, how you gon' catch the boss?

Nicki Minaj - Red Ruby Da Sleeze

Marino - Greed

Time: 1:51

Whether it's lust, pride, greed, envy, or gluttony

Sloth and wrath, don't choose that path

Marino - Greed

$uicideboy$ - THE_EVIL_THAT_MEN_DO

Time: 0:49

I'm staining the world grey, y'all get back to coloring (Slickity-)

Slickity Sloth, thug Bach

Shoot up the mass, it will B minor

$uicideboy$ - THE_EVIL_THAT_MEN_DO

Ren - Seven Sins

Time: 3:56

Humans consume and consume, planet Earth gets a frontal lobotomy

Four: Sloth

Rinse and repeat, reruns, repeat, time lost

Ren - Seven Sins

510 - Mama

Time: 1:21

'Cause Gluttony's on the run

Sloth's disappear

He's Envy for what I am

510 - Mama

Raffi - Joshua Giraffe

Time: 3:23

He'd seen:

Alligators, crocodiles, tree sloth

Anacondas, cobras and,

Raffi - Joshua Giraffe

Polo G - Purple

Time: 0:00

Cha-Cha-Cha-Charlie Sloth (Charlie Sloth)

If we see an opp, knock his thoughts out his head

Polo G - Purple

Robert Preston - Ya Got Trouble

Time: 0:35

Can take and shove a ball in a pocket

And I call that sloth the first big step on the road to the depths of deg-ra-day

I say, first, medicinal wine from a teaspoon, then beer from a bottle

Robert Preston - Ya Got Trouble

Warren Zevon - Mr. Bad Example

Time: 0:47

I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in

I'm proud to be a glutton, and I don't have time for sloth

I'm greedy, and I'm angry, and I don't care who I cross

Warren Zevon - Mr. Bad Example

Mudvayne - TV Radio

Time: 0:06

Brain dead

Sloth

I'd watch the paint dry before giving in

Mudvayne - TV Radio

David Byrne - Snoopies

Time: 1:22

The 8-ball said, "Dave, you in the wrong lot"

Move like sloth, cut cloth with new scissors

You think you're too big, I call Nell Carter

David Byrne - Snoopies

Jerry Cantrell - Solitude

Time: 2:23

Unclean, defiled, hallucinatory state

Lust, sloth, not my only sins

It's just how, when it's time, on a degradation trip... yeah

Jerry Cantrell - Solitude

Megadeth - Seven

Time: 2:43

Pride, envy

Wrath, sloth

Lust, deadly seven

Megadeth - Seven

Every Time I Die - Easy Tiger

Time: 1:42

Twitches and vomits in fits like the damned

Comforts none but the sloth

Yet we pay by the hour for the bricklayers view

Every Time I Die - Easy Tiger

The Mars Volta - Halo of Nembutals

Time: 2:04

You covered your wounds

In a bandage of sloth

The deeper the slur that rang from her laugh

The Mars Volta - Halo of Nembutals

$LOTHBOI - Night Hawk

Time: 0:46

I ain't want no altercation

But fuck with sloth and I'm covering bases cuh

Im a nighthawk lurking in the shadows like a creep

$LOTHBOI - Night Hawk

Mark Lanegan - This Game Of Love

Time: 3:31

But the to and the fro

The wrath and the sloth

The back and the forth took my world apart

Mark Lanegan - This Game Of Love

Rotting Christ - Ad Noctis

Time: 1:33

I am the crimson eye of hate

My love is sloth corrupting order

I am the secret hand of pain

Rotting Christ - Ad Noctis

Dance Gavin Dance - The Robot with Human Hair, Pt. 4

Time: 0:00

Back to sloth and sleeping binges

Self-defeating outburst cringes

Dance Gavin Dance - The Robot with Human Hair, Pt. 4

Jack White - Queen Of The Bees

Time: 0:50

Oh honey, can't you see

I wanna hold you, like a sloth hugs a tree

'Cause I crave you, like a glass needs wine

Jack White - Queen Of The Bees

Jimmy Buffett - Bank of Bad Habits

Time: 2:36

Seven

Sloth, do not be a slob

And the eighth deadly sin is

Jimmy Buffett - Bank of Bad Habits

Sepultura - Nuclear Seven

Time: 2:32

In this new world, painted black

Sloth and pride and envious anger

In this world, another mark

Sepultura - Nuclear Seven

Of Montreal - Penelope

Time: 0:46

Andy's joke reminded Gerard

that his sloth balloon was owned by Turkish moths.

Gerard's Lebanese boss had sent him out on business,

Of Montreal - Penelope

Lingokids - It's Raining It's Pouring

Time: 0:31

It's rainy, hot, and it won't stop

The sloth's asleep and snoring

It's showering and soaking

Lingokids - It's Raining It's Pouring

Belle and Sebastian - This Letter

Time: 1:16

Years of wondering what you were thinking of

I've given into endless days of being a sloth

If I could have the energy to chase the day

Belle and Sebastian - This Letter

The Church - Lustre

Time: 3:45

And makes it worth my while

And it's lust and sloth and pride

That makes me want to

The Church - Lustre

Jared Dines - Lord Of Sloth

Time: 0:39

Hiding away is what you sought

Lord of sloth

Upon your throne of not

Jared Dines - Lord Of Sloth

Saint Vitus - Sloth

Time: 2:28

it's time to bloody the land

Beware The Sloth

Beware Here comes The Sloth

Saint Vitus - Sloth

Lamb of God - The Number Six

Time: 0:00

Sloth is the enemy of greatness

Reflection a scalpel to my mind

Lamb of God - The Number Six

The Libertines - 7 Deadly Sins [Bonus Track]

Time: 0:41

Fallen ladies of letters and verse

Pride, lust, gluttony, greed, sloth,

wrath and envy

The Libertines - 7 Deadly Sins [Bonus Track]

Aborted - The Gangrenous Epitaph

Time: 2:21

Raping the dead, necrotic epitaph

All acknowledge the graveyard sloth

When your bones are bleached, it's time to meet my rod

Aborted - The Gangrenous Epitaph

The Proclaimers - I'd Ask the Questions

Time: 1:47

I've lost my bounce without you to bounce off

How can you tell when a sloth is relaxed?

How can you sleep with your woodwork unwaxed?

The Proclaimers - I'd Ask the Questions

Buzzcocks - Love Battery

Time: 0:26

My mad love battery - has to have us both

my mad love battery - don't allow for sleep or sloth

my mad love battery - never minces words

Buzzcocks - Love Battery

JT Music - Like a Sloth

Time: 0:00

(Like a sloth)

(Like a sloth)

JT Music - Like a Sloth

Venom - Sin

Time: 1:09

Lust and greed they envy, overdose gluttony

I am sloth and I'm bored

With your lies about

Venom - Sin

Laibach - Message from the Black Star

Time: 2:02

He says I make work for idols hands

That sloth, envy and rage erode time's sand

Plus gluttony, greed, impurity and pride

Laibach - Message from the Black Star

Half Man Half Biscuit - Tonight Matthew I'm Going To Be With Jesus

Time: 2:06

Just to taunt your Koi carp,

it brought me out of my sloth,

♪

Half Man Half Biscuit - Tonight Matthew I'm Going To Be With Jesus

Deer Tick - When She Comes Home

Time: 1:52

Everything I thought

Overcome the sloth, got me a ride to New York

And not so much as a reason why

Deer Tick - When She Comes Home

Tiptoe Giants - Party Animals

Time: 2:05

How does a

Sloth get funky? Oo

Let's see your sloth gettin' funky? Oo oo ee ee ah

Tiptoe Giants - Party Animals