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Artist: Metallica
Canonical path: /metallica/bad-seed
Related lyric paths: 6
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Bad Seed
Read Bad Seed lyrics by Metallica on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Bad Seed
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Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Oh
Bad
Yeah
Yeah, yeah
Come clean
Fix up
Tell all
Spill guts
Off the veil
Stand revealed
Show the card
Bring it on
Break the seal
Ladies and gentlemen
Step right up and see the man who taught the truth
Swing the noose again
Pierce the apple skin
You bit more than you need
Now you're choking on the bad seed
On the bad seed
Ah, choking
Yeah
Let it on
Load up
Confess
Care so
At the mercy
Cat is out
Drop through the sky
Spit it up
Spit it out
And now what you've all been waiting for
I give you he who suffers the truth
Swing the noose again
Pierce the apple skin
Yeah, you bit more than you need
Now you're choking on the bad seed
Choking on the bad seed
Yeah
Off the veil
Stand revealed
Bring it on
Break the seal
At the mercy
Cat is out
Spit it up
Spit it out
Spit it up
Spit it out
Spit it out now
At the mercy
Swing the noose again
Pierce the apple skin
You bit more than you need
Choking on the seed
Swing the noose again
Pierce the apple skin
Yeah, you bit more than you need
Now you're choking on the
Choking, choking, choking on the bad seed
Yeah
Off the veil
Stand revealed
Bring it on
Break the seal
At the mercy
Cat is out
Spit it up
Spit it out
Spit it out
Spit it out
Spit it out now
Yeah
Choking on the bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad seed
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