Scapegoat

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Scapegoat by ANOHNI

About Scapegoat

The song “SCAPEGOAT”, cowritten with producer Jimmy Hogarth, articulates the crisis experienced by those caught in cycles of persecution, lyrically interweaving the voice of a perpetrator with an omniscient perspective, perhaps of Nature Herself, as She watches on, holding empathic space for the underlying subject of assault. The lyrics are direct: “You’re so killable… disappear-able. / This one we need not protect / This one’s a freebie .

Scapegoat Lyrics

[00:02.31] You're so killable
[00:05.27]
[00:08.13] Just so killable
[00:13.67] It's not personal
[00:18.75] It's just the way you were born
[00:23.82] And in this society
[00:29.22] A scapegoat is all I can be
[00:34.29] Oh, you're so killable
[00:39.99] I can say just what I want
[00:45.10] I can use you like a toilet
[00:50.43] I can punch you
[00:55.57]
[00:57.66] And take all of my hate
[01:02.26] Into your body
[01:08.99] I can punch you
[01:13.02] And take all of my hate
[01:17.78] Into your body
[01:21.59]
[01:25.28] Put here for me to loathe
[01:29.96] Like an apple hanging on a tree
[01:35.73] All I have to do is take it
[01:41.63] All I have to do is want it
[01:48.94] You're so killable
[01:53.17] Disappearable
[01:55.36]
[01:57.65] This one we need not protect
[02:03.39] This one's a freebie for our guns
[02:08.98] Take this one to a place
[02:14.83] You'd better have your way
[02:21.79]
[02:25.27] Take all of my hate
[02:36.70] Into your body
[02:43.57] Take all of my hate
[02:52.18] Into your flesh and body
[02:59.11] It doesn't matter who you are
[03:07.77] Or where you come from
[03:11.59]
[03:14.80] It doesn't matter what you've got to give
[03:23.75] Or why you want to live
[03:28.38]
[03:31.74] You're my scapegoat
[03:41.35] It's not personal (it's not personal)
[03:46.61]
[04:36.07] You're my scapegoat
[04:40.24]
[04:44.57] It's not personal
[04:46.14]

From the album: My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross