Gilded Rot

Chorus

Bitter core and the skin looks sweet

Honey dripping down her face but she's full of deceit

I can't find the place where the kindness and the rot meet

Oh she's a bad apple

Yes she's a bad apple

Verse 1

Sugar coating on every lie

Smiling at the neighbors while the garden starts to die

Watch the sun dip low

Yellow petals in the dirt don't grow

Everything she touches turns to grey

Safe to say

Pre-Chorus

Little seeds of doubt

Turning inside out

Wait for the secret to come spilling out the mouth

Chorus

Bitter core and the skin looks sweet

Honey dripping down her face but she's full of deceit

I can't find the place where the kindness and the rot meet

Oh she's a bad apple

Yes she's a bad apple

Post-Chorus

Tainted fruit

Deep dark root

Keep on looking for a substitute

Bad apple

Verse 2

Quiet cracks in the kitchen tile

Sharpest little teeth hiding back behind the smile

Polished like a gem

Snapping every fragile stem

Walking through the village like a queen

Pure but mean

Pre-Chorus

Little seeds of doubt

Turning inside out

Wait for the secret to come spilling out the mouth

Chorus

Bitter core and the skin looks sweet

Honey dripping down her face but she's full of deceit

I can't find the place where the kindness and the rot meet

Oh she's a bad apple

Yes she's a bad apple

Drop

Rotten

Deeply rotten

Bridge

Maybe she's tired of being the golden child

Maybe the forest is calling her wild

Burn it down

Break the crown

Throw the basket to the ground

Chorus

Bitter core and the skin looks sweet

Honey dripping down her face but she's full of deceit

I can't find the place where the kindness and the rot meet

Oh she's a bad apple

Yes she's a bad apple