50 Best Rock Songs About Lies
Rock Songs That Twist the Truth
There’s a strange pulse running through songs that circle around deceit. Not the clean, Hollywood kind where someone gets caught and everything wraps up neat, but the murkier kind where the lines blur and everyone walks away a little bruised. The guitars sound sharper when the lyrics sting. The drums hit like someone pacing in the dark. It’s that moment when the mask slips and the chorus lands too close to home. These tracks capture that uneasy space where pretending starts to feel like breathing and the truth comes out sideways.
In rock, lies don’t always mean betrayal. Sometimes they’re armor. Sometimes they’re hope stretched thin. There’s a rawness when an artist sings through a grin they can’t hold, when the sound itself feels complicit. You hear it in the grit of the vocals, in the riffs that sound like they’re spinning out of control. And not every track here literally deals with dishonesty—some of them just echo the tension, the cover-up, the strange relief that follows when someone finally stops keeping up the act. It’s a sound that’s both defiant and hollow at once.
These picks sit in that messy in-between, where pretending feels easier than facing what’s real. The kind of songs that belong in the same breath as pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that play with truth like a dare. They don’t tidy up the mess or wink at the listener. They let it rot a little, let it sting. Here are the best rock songs about lies.
Top 10 Liar Rock Songs
1. 'Liar' by Queen
2. 'Little Lies' by Fleetwood Mac
3. 'The Policy of Truth' by Depeche Mode
4. 'Liar' by Three Dog Night
5. 'Lyin' Eyes' by The Eagles
6. 'Telling Lies' by David Bowie
7. 'Liar' by Henry Rollins Band
8. 'You're A Lie' by Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators
9. 'Liar Liar' by The Castaways
10. 'Terrible Lie' by Nine Inch Nails
Classic and Modern Songs on Falsehood #11 to 20
11. 'Lies' by The Black Keys
12. 'Don't Lie to Me' by The Rolling Stones
13. 'You Oughta Know' by Alanis Morissette
14. 'Don't Lie to Me' by Big Star
15. 'Lies' by Billy Talent
16. 'I'm Looking Through You' by The Beatles
17. 'Living the Lie' by Dio
18. 'Foolin' Yourself' by Styx
19. 'Easier Lying' by Duff McKagan's Loaded
20. 'Dance Little Liar' by Arctic Monkeys
Heavy Rock Songs About Broken Trust #21 to 30
21. 'Liar Liar' by The Used
22. 'Better Man' by Pearl Jam
23. 'Fake Friends' by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
24. 'You Lied' by Green Day
25. 'Interstate Love Song' by Stone Temple Pilots
26. 'Liar' by Sex Pistols
27. 'You're Gonna Go Far Kid' by The Offspring
28. 'Sour' by Limp Bizkit
29. 'Points of Authority' by Linkin Park
30. 'Face Deceit' by Ron Jaspers and Andre d'Crow
More Hard Rock Songs on Deception #31 to 40
31. 'Liar' by Argent
32. 'Book of Liars' by Steely Dan
33. 'Billy Liar' by The Decemberists
34. 'All Men are Liars' by Nick Lowe
35. 'Liar' by Todd Rundgren
36. 'Love Don't Lie' by Def Leppard
37. 'Always the Last to Know' by Del Amitri
38. 'Dirty Work' by Steely Dan
39. 'You're Lying' by The Troggs
40. 'Lies' by The Knickerbockers
Rock and Alternative Songs on Untruths #41 to 50
41. 'Liar' by Paramore
42. 'Heartbreaker' by Pat Benatar
43. 'Would I Lie to You' by Eurythmics
44. 'I Knew I Couldn't Trust You' by Silverstein
45. 'Rough Trade' by Stiff Little Fingers
46. 'Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off' by Panic! At The Disco
47. 'Tell Me No More Lies' by Adam Zadok
48. 'The Letters' by King Crimson
49. 'You Lie' by Madonna
50. 'You Lie' by Anita Ward
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