Don’t Believe the Things They Tell You (They Lie)
Tegan and Sara * Track #4 On Hey, I’m Just Like You
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Don't Believe the Things They Tell You (They Lie) by Tegan and Sara
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Tegan and SaraProduced by
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Alex Hope & Sara Quin & Tegan QuinDon’t Believe the Things They Tell You (They Lie) Lyrics
[Verse 1]
The things I've almost told you
All the things I've thought about you
It takes all my strength to face you
To hold still
And when you give me your attention
Things get lost in translation, again
Tell you I don't love you at all
But I do love you
[Pre-Chorus]
I don't wanna be a liar
But I do it every day
I don't wanna be so tired
But I can't sleep any way
[Chorus]
Don't believe the things they tell you, they lie
Don't believe the things they tell you, no
[Verse 2]
The thing my mother told me
Was that everyone would love me
But in the dark, I feel so lonely
I'm numb
She said it with so much conviction
But I feel like something's missing, again
Ooh, I don't love me at all
I don't love me
[Pre-Chorus]
I don't wanna be a liar
But I do it every day
I don't wanna be so tired
But I can't sleep any way
[Chorus]
Don't believe the things they tell you, they lie
Don't believe the things they tell you, no
[Bridge]
I'm a liar
No one believe me
I'm a liar
No one believe me
[Chorus]
Don't believe the things they tell you
Don't believe the things they tell you
Don't believe the things I tell you, I lie
Don't believe the things I tell you, no
Don’t Believe the Things They Tell You (They Lie) Q&A
Who wrote Don’t Believe the Things They Tell You (They Lie)'s ?
Don’t Believe the Things They Tell You (They Lie) was written by Alex Hope & Sara Quin & Tegan Quin.
Who produced Don’t Believe the Things They Tell You (They Lie)'s ?
Don’t Believe the Things They Tell You (They Lie) was produced by Alex Hope.
When did Tegan and Sara release Don’t Believe the Things They Tell You (They Lie)?
Tegan and Sara released Don’t Believe the Things They Tell You (They Lie) on Fri Sep 20 2019.
How did this song come about?
Tegan: We actually wrote “Don’t Believe the Things They Tell You (They Lie),” in 1996. It was our grade 10 year, first year in high school and we had just started writing songs. It was actually probably one of the first songs that we ever wrote. The early formation of our band our collaboration was...
What was the songwriting process like?
Sara: So I found the cassette tapes of our first band last year. The song really stuck out to me is one that we should definitely try to revisit. Part of the tape was inaudible. So the beginning parts of the lyrics were hard to make out. I think part of that is probably because of the under the infl...
Why did you decide to re-write the song?
Tegan: We were in the middle of writing our memoir about high school, about our adolescence and this experience of discovering our identity as people, as individuals, but also as creative people, as artists. As I started to write about that creative process and those early days, I really hadn’t thou...
What was it like working with producer Alex Hope?
It was a lot of work to figure out how to modernize music from that time. But we had a lot of help with Alex Hope, our producer. She was great. She’s practically a teenager, so she really put her modern Millennial spin on it, which was really great. And I think, for Sara and I, we’re really good at...