"Lie To Me" finds the guys heartbroken over a love that's not lining up. Now I wish we never met 'Cause you're too hard to forget While I'm cleaning up your mess I know he's taking off your dress I know that you don't, but if I ask you if you love me I hope you lie, lie, lie, lie, lie to me Drummer Ashton Irwin explained in the band's Cocktail Chats (episode 2) that the song is about how "it hurts when you're in a romantic situation and the other person is in it for reasons that you aren't."
Sonically, "Lie To Me" came about from Irwin's desire for "a song that had a Police "Every Breath You Take"-type guitar mixed in with a groove from a modern, urban song."
This was penned the day after 5SOS wrote "Youngblood." Bassist Calum Hood recalled that Ashton Irwin and songwriter Andrew Watt (Camila Cabello's "Havana") "were sitting on the couch and they had the, 'lie, lie, lie, lie' and we're all like, 'Alright, let's come back in tomorrow and we'll finish the idea.' And that's how we got 'Lie to Me.'"
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