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Taylor Swift – Bad Blood lyrics
[Chorus:]
Cause baby now we've got bad blood
You know it used to be mad love
So take a look what you've done
Cause baby now we've got bad blood, hey!
Now we've got problems
And I don't think we can solve 'em
You made a really deep cut
And baby now we've got bad blood, hey!

Did you have to do this?
I was thinking that you could be trusted
Did you have to ruin
What was shiny, now it's all rusted
Did you have to hit me
Where I'm weak, baby I couldn't breath
And rub it in so deep
Salt in the wound like you're laughing right at me
Oh it so sad to think about the good times
You and I

[Chorus:]
Cause baby now we've got bad blood
You know it used to be mad love
So take a look what you've done
Cause baby now we've got bad blood, hey!
Now we've got problems
And I don't think we can solve 'em
You made a really deep cut
And baby now we've got bad blood, hey!

Did you think we'd we be fine
Still got scars in my back from your knives
So don't think it's in the past
These kind of wounds they last and they last
Now did you think it all through?
All these things will catch up to you
In time can heal but this won't
So if you come in my way
Just don't
Oh it's so sad to think about the good times
You and I

[Chorus:]
Cause baby now we've got bad blood
You know it used to be mad love
So take a look what you've done
Cause baby now we've got bad blood, hey!
Now we've got problems
And I don't think we can solve 'em
You made a really deep cut
And baby now we've got bad blood, hey!

Band aids don't fix bullet holes
You say sorry just for show
If you live like that, you live with ghosts
If you live like that you live with bad blood

Band aids don't fix bullet holes
You say sorry just for show
If you live like that, you live with ghosts
If you live like that you live with bad blood

[Chorus:]
Cause baby now we've got bad blood
You know it used to be mad love
So take a look what you've done
Cause baby now we've got bad blood, hey!
Now we've got problems
And I don't think we can solve 'em
You made a really deep cut
And baby now we've got bad blood, hey!

[Chorus:]
Cause baby now we've got bad blood
You know it used to be mad love
So take a look what you've done
Cause baby now we've got bad blood, hey!
Now we've got problems
And I don't think we can solve 'em
You made a really deep cut
And baby now we've got bad blood, hey!
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Songwriters: Johan Karl Schuster, Martin Max, Taylor Alison Swift
Bad Blood lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
Corrected by Morag Sutton

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    Unregistered 2015-07-04 22:04:57
    Damn it people are dumb... There are two versions of the song but Taylor didn't like the one with the lyrics above so she got Kendrick to rap in it. These lyrics are right and no one is correcting anyone... Jesus where are the people who know things? Cause they're obviously not here.
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  • U
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    Unregistered 2015-05-29 03:52:55
    I think this song is about how Taylor and Katy have some kind of fight and they have a bad relationship with each other. And Arysn is obviously not Katy Perry. Not meant for people who know but those people who think Arysn is Katy Perry cos' she has black hair like Arsyn. Selena Gomez wore a wig, people. But the beat and the rhythm goes well together and I love the lyrics. But I thought there was a part where a guy raps?
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    Unregistered 2015-06-10 08:46:52
    Basically since the whole Katy Perry trying to buy people who are supposed to work with Taylor while she's on tour sabotage issue, Taylor's just stating "I thought we had a connection, but now since you're trying to sabotage my tour by buying people from under me, we're just not cool."
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    Unregistered 2015-07-15 05:42:22
    Bullet holes really, really hurt. Shoot someone that you love in the heart and you break two hearts. It's only because the "mad love" was so good that the prospect of solving these problems is possible. But it is possible. In the hope that a sincere sorry may be heard.
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    Unregistered 2015-08-14 21:39:49
    The video for this song is merely an example of grasping at straws. When only $$$ thrown at video production and set in extravagant costumes with featured celebrities/rapper, etc is the only possible chance they had for this lyrically deficient song to capture the attention and hook our culturally dumbed-down society.
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    Unregistered 2015-06-29 14:02:44
    Sorry if I am correcting you, but half of the lyrics are wrong. Like the rapping part. But, after all, it is still a good song. I always visit this website, so please make the lyrics right. Maybe listen better to the song next time? I don't know, but please make the lyrics right.
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  • U
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    Unregistered 2015-06-08 20:40:43
    Well I think this song was about Katy Perry, about how she broke the "bbf over boyfriend code". I mean she was obviously expressing her anger. How could Katy date and f**k her ex even after she knew he broke her heart. But besides that its a very nice song, the beat is amazing, the lyrics are awesome. The video is not bad.
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    Unregistered 2015-06-03 12:18:49
    This song is about Katy Perry. Did you have to do this means "Why did you (Katy) have to date and f**k my ex (John Mayer) who broke my heart. You broke the bff over boys rule."
    Remember Dear John that was rumored to be about John Mayer?
    Also, listen to the song "Who You Love" by John Mayer feat. Katy Perry.
    It says "You love who you love, you cant make yourself stop dreaming of who you are dreaming of".
    Katy also sings "My boy he ain't the one that I saw coming, and some (Taylor implied) have said his heart is hard to hold."
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    Mystery_G186 2015-05-24 17:55:17
    I really don't know what this song about but I like beat and lyrics they go together very well. Also I'm in love with the music video it's really cool. I love how Taylor Swift is trying new things and growing up to be a really cool adult but not changing who she is or what she believes in. So again I don't know what this song is about but I like the beat and lyrics that goes with it and the music video.
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  • w
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    wendyokoopa 2018-05-13 04:03:49
    If this "Song" is about Katy dating, and having a 2 year relationship with John Mayer after trailer trash was dumped by him. In my opinon John upgraded and this is from someone not even a fan of katy or her music. Bad Blood taylor? Really you wrote 3 or four trash songs about Mayer.
    And only one apology. Wait it's what you to do to anyone stupid enough to date you. No version of the song would have great. Trailer is well Trailer trash in designer clothes and she never lived in a trailer park. S.
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  • w
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    wendyokoopa 2018-05-13 03:56:55
    My meaning is Taylor is a hypocrite who pitched a childish fit(Imagine that from Taylor?) because a dancer who is a human being with their own free will chose to perform Katy's shows over taylors. Now I'm by no means a katy perry fan but taylor was again immature but she always is and you ignorant sheep eat up her immaturity like it's pop corn because your lives are sad and inadaquete. I give this song as I give all taylor songs 1 star. Also reading her lyrics make me feel like I'm losing iq points. So when does Trailer Swift just crawl back under her s**t hole and die? So my meaning is Taylor is a whiny little brat who can't handle when she doesn't get her own way.
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    FluttershyK 2016-02-10 21:12:49
    The meaning of this song is basically Katy Perry tried to sabotage Taylor's tour Taylor got mad and wrote bad blood to the Dark horse. I think though it means more to me I like he catchy tune the amazing lyrics and I think Taylor did a lot, she didn't deserve it.
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  • U
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    Unregistered 2015-07-24 18:38:07
    Bad blood is not about Katy, because Taylor herself said that it was about the "same person that Dear John was written about" and obviously Katy was not dating John until right around when the Red album came out, what cheer was way after Speak Now, the album that Dear John was on. So obviously the song is about John Mayer who dated both Katy and Taylor. Or maybe Harry Styles.
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    Unregistered 2015-06-06 06:43:05
    I think it's to show how there was a really good relationship at first which turned into enmity due to backstabbing and finally revenge. I think so about this song because I have experienced this myself so I totally understand Taylor's emotions at the moment about Katy. It's also this that Taylor must be really close with her and after that she quotes in her song that "time can heal but this won't" and then she tells the intended person to not come in her way or it'll be bad for her (if you come in my way; just don't).
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  • k
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    katy-swift 2015-06-19 23:33:45
    This song was written by Taylor Swift because Taylor Swift once went out with a guy and something happened between them and she got mad and they broke up. But than later, Katy Perry went out with the same guy and something happened between them and Katy Perry got mad and they broke up. So, that is what bad blood is about. Also, "Blank Space" was first to happen. The same guy came to meet Taylor Swift and that was bad. They were more and more better friend`s as time passed by. And then, the guy did something and they broke up. The very, exact, same, thing happened to Katy Perry and the very mean guy. After that, Taylor Swift, sang I Knew You Were Trouble. John Mayer is the name of the guy whom dated both extraordinary pop singer's. So strictly speaking, YES! It was a bit of everyone's fault {Although, since boys are lower on intelligence [only some] mostly it's John Mayer!} And all of these words that I wrote + Katy Perry Taylor Swift and John Mayer = Bad Blood. And one last thing, Katy Perry's "Dark Horse". It brings all 3 pop singers together in the ducky of awesome parody on YouTube. It's really funny and I really recommend it.
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    Sushant Pahwa 2015-06-03 04:19:16
    This song is obviously about a crime on a woman by a jealous lover. She is beaten, stabbed and then killed by bullets. She is lying on a the floor bleeding and her wounds are bad, really bad. So it's bad blood she says to the jealous lover before becoming a ghost and haunting her aggressor forever.
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  • U
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    Unregistered 2015-01-27 02:13:28
    Many people think this is about a guy, but it's really about Taylor and Katy perry. Katy stole her backup dancers. Taylor got mad. They had a fight. Katy said shorty just for show. Katy said sorry just for show. Ticket show not to show off. Show like on tv or gossip channel.
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    Mata Thodor 2015-05-28 09:44:22
    This song is obviously about a crime on a woman by a jealous lover. She is beaten, stabbed and then killed by bullets. She is lying on a the floor bleeding and her wounds are bad, really bad. So it's bad blood she says to the jealous lover before becoming a ghost and haunting her aggressor forever.
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