50 Best Rock Songs About People Being Fake

Rock Tracks That Call Out the Fake Ones

There’s a strange kind of tension that builds when someone’s smiling in your face and lying behind it. That split-second you catch it—the tone shift, the empty flattery, the hollow echo of connection—and your stomach knots before your mind catches up. Rock music’s always had a way of dragging that truth out of the shadows. The sneer in a guitar riff, the bitter grin behind a verse that sounds too calm to be kind. These songs hit that nerve, the one that flinches at people who pretend to be real.

The thing about fakeness is how loud it gets once you hear it. The forced charm, the sudden loyalty, the borrowed words from someone who never means them. These tracks don’t smooth it over or tie it up neatly. Some come straight at the hypocrisy, others circle it with sarcasm and noise. A few of these tracks weren’t even written for this idea at all, but they carry that same pulse—the tension of smiling through teeth and knowing the room’s full of masks.

There’s no clean mood here. Some songs spit, some laugh, some drown in feedback until the whole thing cracks open. They live in that uneasy space between confrontation and apathy, where guitars growl and vocals grind out something too honest to fake. These picks cut through the noise and catch that feeling loud and raw. Here are the best rock songs about people being fake.

1. 'Fake Ass Friends' by Set It Off

2. 'Liar' by Rollins Band

3. 'Korn' by Fake

4. 'Lies' by Billy Talent

5. 'Counterfeit' by Limp Bizkit

6. 'The Last Song' by Sevendust

7. 'Your Betrayal' by Bullet for My Valentine

8. 'Snakes' by Papa Roach

9. 'No Class' by Motörhead

10. 'You're a Lie' by Slash ft. Myles Kennedy

11. 'Policy of Truth' by Depeche Mode

12. 'Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off' by Panic! At The Disco

13. 'Liar Liar (Burn in Hell)' by The Used

14. 'Liar (It Takes One to Know One)' by Taking Back Sunday

15. 'Favorite Liar' by The Wrecks

16. 'Liar' by The Sex Pistols

17. 'You Fucked Up' by Ween

18. 'Back Stabbers' by The O'Jays

19. 'Liar, Liar' by The Castaways

20. 'Somebody That I Used to Know' by Gotye ft. Kimbra

21. 'You Oughta Know' by Alanis Morissette

22. 'Go Your Own Way' by Fleetwood Mac

23. 'Lyin' Eyes' by Eagles

24. 'Little Lies' by Fleetwood Mac

25. 'Bitch' by Sevendust

26. 'I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)' by Bob Dylan

27. 'You Give Love a Bad Name' by Bon Jovi

28. 'In My Darkest Hour' by Megadeth

29. 'Dyers Eve' by Metallica

30. 'The Bleeding' by Five Finger Death Punch

31. 'Don't Lie to Me' by Big Star

32. 'Don't You Lie to Me' by Chuck Berry

33. 'Easier Lying' by Duff McKagan's Loaded

34. 'Train In Vain' by The Clash

35. 'The Pretender' by Foo Fighters

36. 'No, You Don't' by Nine Inch Nails

37. 'Walk' by Pantera

38. 'My Name Is' by Shinedown

39. 'Cold as Ice' by Foreigner

40. 'This Love' by Pantera

41. 'Ruiner' by Nine Inch Nails

42. 'Denial' by Sevendust

43. 'Cry Me a River' by Justin Timberlake

44. 'You're So Vain' by Carly Simon

45. 'Bury My Faults' by Hinder

46. 'Face to Face' by Sevendust

47. 'A Place for My Head' by Linkin Park

48. 'Lost' by Korn

49. 'Honesty' by Billy Joel

50. 'I'm Looking Through You' by The Beatles