Singer-songwriter Tom Fletcher says the song is about a girl who doesn’t care who she uses to get what she wants:
We did have a girl in mind when we wrote it, but really it’s an amalgam of several girls we have met along the way.
However, the song could be about journalists who write rumors (lies)...
[Verse 1: Tom]
Better run for cover
You're a hurricane full of lies
And the way you're heading
No one's getting out alive
So do us all a favor
Would you find somebody else to blame
'Cause your words are like bullets and I'm the way your weapons aim
[Pre-Chorus: Danny]
I guess I could fill a book with things that I don't know about you, baby
You're not misunderstood but you got, you got to go
[Chorus: Danny]
(Lies)
Living in a fantasy (lies)
Don't even know reality (lies)
When you start talking, I start walking (lies)
Lies, lies, lies
Don't even wanna know the truth (lies)
The devil has his eye on you, girl (lies)
When you start talking, I start walking (lies)
Lies, lies, lies
Yeah, yeah
[Verse 2: Danny]
So don't forget your seatbelt
Don't you think of picking up the phone
Better say your prayers 'cause you're never gonna make it home
Did you miss the stop sign
That last decision was your last
'Cause you can't come back once you're lying in the broken glass
[Pre-Chorus: Tom]
And I hope you get to hear me say
"Who gets the last laugh now"
[Chorus: Danny]
(Lies)
Living in a fantasy (lies)
Don't even know reality (lies)
When you start talking, I start walking (lies)
Lies, lies, lies
Don't even wanna know the truth (lies)
The devil has his eye on you, girl (lies)
When you start talking, I start walking (lies)
Lies, lies, lies
[Bridge: Tom]
No more excuses, no more running
Only God can save you now (God can save you now)
'Cause I know the truth is time is running out
[Instrumental]
[Bridge: Tom]
And I'm just one drink away
And I'm back in Wonderland like it was yesterday
And I hope you get to hear me say, "Who gets the last"
"Who gets the last"
"Who gets the last laugh now"
[Chorus: Danny]
(Lies)
Living in a fantasy (lies)
Don't even know reality (lies)
When you start talking, I start walking (lies)
Lies, lies, lies
Don't even wanna know the truth (lies)
The devil has his eye on you, girl (lies)
When you start talking, I start walking (lies)
Lies, lies, lies
[Outro: Danny & Tom]
Woah oh oh
Lies, lies, lies
Woah oh oh
Lies, lies, lies
Woah oh oh
Lies, lies, lies
Woah oh oh
Lies, lies, lies
Lies was written by Dougie Poynter & Danny Jones & Tom Fletcher.
Lies was produced by Jason Perry.
The 22-year-old singer says ‘Lies’ is the darkest thing the band have ever done. Tom said: “A lot of our songs are nice lyrics about a girl who you love or has left you or a girl you want back, blah, blah, blah. When we wrote this song we knew it needed to be passionate and dark lyrically to fit the...