Meaning

Taylor Swift has bad blood with someone, which is supposed to be Katy Perry.

Lyrics

'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!)

(Hey!) I can't take it back, look where I'm at
We was on D like doc, remember that?
Now pov of you and me, similar Iraq

I don't hate you but
I hate to critique, overrate you
These beats of a dark heart,
use basslines to replace you
Take time and erase you, love don't hear no more
No I don't fear no more,
better yet respect ain't quite sincere no more

Oh, it's so sad to
Think about the good times
You and I

'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!)

Remember when you tried to write me off?
Remember when you thought I'd take a loss?
Don't u remember? You thought I would need yah
Follow procedure, remember?
Oh wait you got amnesia
It was my season for battle wounds, battle scars
Body bumped, bruised
stabbed in the back; brimstone,
fire jumping through
Still, all my life, I got money and power
And you gotta live with the bad blood now

Oh, it's so sad to
Think about the good times
You and I

'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
You live like that, you live with ghosts
(You forgive, you forget but you never let it go)
Band-aids don't fix bullet holes
You say sorry just for show
If you live like that, you live with ghosts
If you love like that, blood runs cold!

'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!)

'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!)
Play with the song, fill the gaps
Legend
  • The video player plays from the time specified
  • Chorus
  • People Talking

Vocabulary

bad blood

Unfriendly or hostile relations. Bad blood is when you have beef with someone.
When the territory was being settled there was bad blood between the farmers and the ranchers.
Me and that guy got bad blood between us.

My TLC was quite OD, ID my facts

TLC means Tender Loving Care OD means Overly Dedicated ID means (check what) I’m Doing

POV

means Point Of View

DOC

DOC means Drug Of Choice. A favored illicit substance of an individual or group at a specific point in time; also, the pharmaceutical favored for the treatment of a condition at the present time; by extension, an individual's favored vice
Coffee is her drug of choice.

basslines

A bassline (also known as a bass line or bass part) is the term used in many styles of popular music, such as jazz, blues, funk, dub and electronic, or traditional music, for the low-pitched instrumental part or line played by a rhythm section instrument such as the electric bass, double bass, cello, tuba or keyboard

better yet

even better
You could help us with the cooking, or better yet, why don't you set the table?

write me off

To decide that a particular person or thing will not be useful, important, or successful. To give up on someone or something as a dead loss, waste of time, hopeless case
A lot of companies seem to write people off if they're over 50.
Alison's teachers had written her off as a failure.

Stabbed

Attack with a knife
The mugger stabbed his victim when she refused to hand over her bag.

Band-aids

A brand of sticking plaster (adhesive dressing)
Tim has cut his knee, so his dad puts a band-aid on it.

blood runs cold

To be very frightened
The thought of the damage such a bomb could do made my blood run cold.

bullet holes

A hole caused by a firearm or other projectile weapon.

take it back

To retract
I wish I could take back what I said in anger.
You can never really take back an insult once you've made it.

Let it go

To forget about something; to not worry.
I’m sorry that you didn’t get the job you wanted. But you need to let it go so that you can focus on your next interview and your future!

Gotta

I’ve got to I have to