You Lie

Album: The Band Perry (2010)
Charted: 42
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  • It ain't complicated
    Well, I've grown to hate it
    I never liked the taste of crow but baby I ate it
    They tried to warn me
    They said that you were ornery
    So don't bring me those big brown eyes and tell me that you're sorry
    Well you might as well throw gasoline on a fire
    The way you lie

    You lie like a priceless Persian rug on a rich man's floor
    And you lie like a cooped up dog basking in the sunshine on my porch
    Well you lie like a penny in the parking lot at the grocery store
    It just comes way too natural to you
    The way you lie

    That ain't my perfume
    I bet she had a curfew
    You told me you were out with the boys and baby I believed you
    So why you lookin' so nervous
    You know you're gonna deserve this
    I oughta kill you right now and do the whole wide world a service
    Well my daddy's gonna straighten you out like a piece of wire, like a piece of wire
    The way you lie

    You lie like the man with the slick black hair who sold me that Ford
    And you lie like a pine tree in the back yard after last month's storm
    Well you lie like a penny in the parking lot at the grocery store
    It just comes way too natural to you
    The way you lie

    Well, I'll tell you what I'm gonna do
    I'm gonna drive until the big ol' muddy river
    I'm gonna park my car in the middle of the mile-long bridge
    And then I'm gonna cry well maybe just a little
    Then I'm gonna slip off the ring that you put on my finger
    And give it a big ol' fling and watch it sink
    Down, down, down
    There it's gonna lie
    Until the Lord comes back around

    Because you lie like a priceless Persian rug on a rich man's floor
    You lie like a coondog basking in the sunshine on my porch
    Well you lie like a penny in the parking lot at the grocery store
    It just comes so dang natural to you
    The way you lie
    The way you lie
    Well it's what you do, it's who you are Writer/s: AARON HENNINGSEN, BRIAN HENNINGSEN, CLARA HENNINGSEN
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Comments: 1

  • Camille from Toronto, OhThis is a great tune that imo, didn't get enough radio airplay. It's the kind of song that once you hear it, it will play in a continuous loop in your head for the rest of the day or maybe the rest of the week. The video is fun to watch, Kimberly Perry is lovely. I especially like when they show her banging away on the piano. Love the part in the song where she's gonna drive to the big old muddy river, toss that ring over the bridge, watch it sink and let it lie there till the Lord comes back around. Just fabulous. Oh, and the part about eating crow, it's perfect. When someone comes right out and says, hey, I was wrong about this dude, you just gotta love them for admitting it.
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