50 Best Rock Songs About Being Cheated On and Lied To
Best Rock Tracks on Cheating and Lies
There’s a sting that cuts sharper than silence when you realize someone’s been running circles around the truth. It’s not clean heartbreak, not the kind of pain that sits neatly in a breakup ballad, but a messy unraveling. The suspicion, the late-night overthinking, the way one small detail suddenly cracks the whole story. Rock songs thrive in that space, turning betrayal into loud guitars, ragged vocals, and lyrics that sound like they were scrawled in anger before the ink even dried. It’s the kind of listening that makes you mutter along under your breath and feel the burn of it all over again.
Some of these tracks spell it out bluntly. A partner lies, someone gets caught, and the whole world tilts sideways. Others take the scenic route, dressing up deceit in metaphors or focusing on the haze that follows. Either way, the emotion is the same. There’s a reason cheating anthems cut across pop, rock, country, and R&B songs. The raw feeling carries through no matter the genre, and even when a track isn’t literally locked on the subject, the tension and bitterness still fit the theme.
It’s not glossy or cinematic heartbreak, and it rarely ties up neatly. Sometimes the song sneers, sometimes it sulks, sometimes it just wants to crank the volume so loud it drowns out thinking. That’s the energy these rock songs tap into, and they land perfectly when you want your feed to echo the chaos. Here are the best rock songs about being cheated on and lied to.
Top 10 Cheating Songs
1. 'You Oughta Know' by Alanis Morissette
2. 'I Don't Care Anymore' by Phil Collins
3. 'Mr. Brightside' by The Killers
4. 'Lyin' Eyes' by Eagles
5. 'Liar' by Queen
6. 'Little Lies' by Fleetwood Mac
7. 'Your Time Is Gonna Come' by Led Zeppelin
8. 'Screaming Infidelities' by Dashboard Confessional
9. 'Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'' by Journey
10. 'You Give Love a Bad Name' by Bon Jovi
Rock Songs Addressing Betrayal #11 to 20
11. 'Unsuccessfully Coping With the Natural Beauty of Infidelity' by Type O Negative
12. 'Careless Whisper' by George Michael
13. 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' by Marvin Gaye
14. 'Pictures of You' by The Last Goodnight
15. 'Scotty Doesn't Know' by Lustra
16. 'Love Bites' by Def Leppard
17. 'Don't Lie to Me' by Big Star
18. 'I'm Not the Only One' by Sam Smith
19. 'Love Don't Lie' by Def Leppard
20. 'Why'd Ya Do It' by Marianne Faithful
Rock Songs About Deception #21 to 30
21. 'A Quick One, While He's Away' by The Who
22. 'Hey Joe' by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
23. 'Your Betrayal' by Bullet for My Valentine
24. 'Little White Lie' by Sammy Hagar
25. 'Go Your Own Way' by Fleetwood Mac
26. 'I Saw Red' by Warrant
27. 'Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)' by Jim Croce
28. 'Last to Know' by Three Days Grace
29. 'Runaround Sue' by Dion
30. 'No Reply' by The Beatles
Rock Songs About Lying and Cheating #31 to 40
31. 'Second Chance' by Shinedown
32. 'Don't Let Him Know' by Prism
33. 'Since U Been Gone' by Kelly Clarkson
34. 'The Way She Lies' by The Trews
35. 'Give Me a Reason' by Puddle of Mudd
36. 'The End' by The Doors
37. 'Whiskey in the Jar' by Thin Lizzy
38. 'The Circle is Small' by Gordon Lightfoot
39. 'Before the Deluge' by Jackson Browne
40. 'Fell in Love With a Girl' by The White Stripes
Rock Songs About Infidelity #41 to 50
41. 'Cheater' by Judas Priest
42. 'Clean Sheets' by The Descendents
43. 'It's a Sin to Tell a Lie' by The Ink Spots
44. 'Fake Friends' by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
45. 'Policy of Truth' by Depeche Mode
46. 'I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone' by The Monkees
47. 'The Thunder Rolls' by Garth Brooks
48. 'Just a Fool' by Christina Aguilera & Blake Shelton
49. 'Walk' by Pantera
50. 'Go With the Flow' by Queens of the Stone Age
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