You lie the band perry lyrics

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

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You Lie Lyrics as written by Brian Henningsen Aaron Henningsen

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In January of 2011, the Band Perry -- siblings Kimberly, Neil and Reid Perry -- released "You Lie" as the third single from their self-titled debut album. Written by Aaron, Brian and Clara Henningsen (known as the Henningsens, a family trio themselves), the song became a Top 10 single for TBP, their second consecutive one; it peaked at No. 2 on the country charts. 

Below, Brian and Clara Henningsen tell The Boot about penning "You Lie."

Brian Henningsen: The song started out as a Clara song. She had the basic vocal lick and the basic theme of the song, and she had started the chorus. We were sitting around at my house, and I said, "It needs something a little more jazzy." I blurted out, "You lie like a priceless Persian rug on a rich man's floor / And you lie like a coon dog basking in the sunshine on my porch / Well, you lie like a penny in a parking lot at the grocery store ..."

Normally, you have to slug out the lines, but those just fell out. The dog and the rug, those are old sayings; they're country colloquialisms. A lot of the lyrics are a bit of a pun.

One true line is in the second verse, when we threw in "lie like the man with the slicked-back hair who sold me that Ford." Now, that's true [laughs]. We had to get that one in there.

Clara Henningsen: I started writing it in 2008. I remember writing the chorus because I just wanted a song where a girl is tired of this dude lying to her all the time. When my dad started blurting out that stuff, [especially] "I never liked the taste of crow but baby, I ate it," [Aaron] and I looked at him and said, "What? What do those things mean?" At first, we didn't think those would work but they all ended up in the song!"

Brian Henningsen: When we finished the chorus of the song, we just loved it. At that time, we didn't have a publishing deal, but we were talking to Paul Worley [co-producer of the Band Perry's debut album] and played him the chorus. He just flipped. We knew we had something really cool.

After that, we went to Aaron's house in Franklin, Tenn., and proceeded to slug through the verses. Writing the song took most of the day. We wanted it to be a very concentrated story; we want our songs to paint a movie in your head. The whole song is basically wordplay, slightly tongue-in-cheek and a little dark humor to try to make it conversational. We played the whole thing for Paul Worley and his [colleagues], and it became one of our standards.

One day, Paul told us about [the Band Perry] he was working with. He told us they were a family, and we would understand their dynamic. We loved the way they sounded, and we played that song and some others we had written. They loved them, too ...

This story was originally written by Nancy Dunham, and revised by Angela Stefano.

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