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(screaming)
Liar, liar, pants on fire
and the pills go down and get you higher baby
bottles burning, mother fucker
and the mother hates him like the daughter
lonely god and maker gripping tighter saying
you will burn in hell they say,
you will burn in hell!
Liar! Liar! Pants on fire
Liar! Liar! Stop yourself from catching fire fire
God and maker, liar! liar! pants on fire
Liar! Liar! house of fire
and the glass they smashed seemed to ignite
I bet your tummy hurts you, you mother fucker
mother never loved you,
father touched you with the hand of god
he's gripping tighter, saying
you will burn in hell they say,
you will burn in hell!
Liar! Liar! Pants on fire
Liar! Liar! Stop yourself from catching fire fire
God and maker, liar! liar! You fucking liar!
(screaming): You're gonna burn in hell (x2)
you will burn in hell they say,
you will burn in hell!
(screaming): You fucking liar!
Liar! Liar! Pants on fire
Liar! Liar! Stop yourself from catching fire fire
God and maker, liar! liar! You fucking liar! (x2)
You fucking liar! (liar! liar!)
Liar, liar, pants on fire!
Hanging from a telephone wire!
Liar, liar, pants on fire
and the pills go down and get you higher baby
bottles burning, mother fucker
and the mother hates him like the daughter
lonely god and maker gripping tighter saying
you will burn in hell they say,
you will burn in hell!
Liar! Liar! Pants on fire
Liar! Liar! Stop yourself from catching fire fire
God and maker, liar! liar! pants on fire
Liar! Liar! house of fire
and the glass they smashed seemed to ignite
I bet your tummy hurts you, you mother fucker
mother never loved you,
father touched you with the hand of god
he's gripping tighter, saying
you will burn in hell they say,
you will burn in hell!
Liar! Liar! Pants on fire
Liar! Liar! Stop yourself from catching fire fire
God and maker, liar! liar! You fucking liar!
(screaming): You're gonna burn in hell (x2)
you will burn in hell they say,
you will burn in hell!
(screaming): You fucking liar!
Liar! Liar! Pants on fire
Liar! Liar! Stop yourself from catching fire fire
God and maker, liar! liar! You fucking liar! (x2)
You fucking liar! (liar! liar!)
Liar, liar, pants on fire!
Hanging from a telephone wire!
Lyrics submitted by acidjazz
Track duration: 02:53
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"The previous year, he had moved from Orem, Utah to Los Angeles, California, soon moving in with his Australian fianceé Alison. The city, he found, fascinated and disgusted him at the same time. "I met the most fake people I had ever come across on the whole planet," McCracken recalled. "They’re all just liars, and they're so used to doing it, half the time I don’t think they even know they’re lying. Being in that environment had a direct effect on the tone of this new record, which is a little more vicious, but in a strange way, also more loving and caring." Such an environment invoked many songwriting ideas for the lyricist, inspiring songs such as "Pretty Handsome Awkward" and "Liar Liar (Burn In Hell)."
The chorus is: his religion, spoken by himself, his family, and everybody around him, nagging him that he can't do anything right( since the bible's riddled with contradictions and something or another is bound to be a sin or taboo according to it), chorus repeating in his head and stressing him the heck out.
The last line suggests that the nagging chorus/etc. eventually drives this guy to hang himself.(, the "telephone wire" imagery doubling as a reference to his wanting to communicate this corruption and nagging stress, and to reach out as a the way he'd prefer to cope. You get to imagining that everybody who's been nagging him is going through the same stuff as our protagonist and may undergo the same fate.) Ironically, he probably went to Hell, since he killed himself.
As for the "pants on fire" bit...it narrates that Christians are immature and/or that he was bullied as a kid, by other Christians & non-Christians alike, and/or it's a reference to refraining from masturbation die to it being a sin. Alternate interpretation, on that note, is that the song is more about the sexual stress from refraining for him rather than much else being as significant to the feeling of the song; it links to the part about his father TOUCHING him. "Father" could also refer to a PRIEST, and touching boys is what they do in case y'all haven't noticed. Their local priest could be considered part enough of his childhood family. so, ya know, he's been turned homo and is now a walking sin.
I like how the things that go unsaid within Christian communities (the stress of having to refrain from sinning when nearly everything is a sin while keeping the appearance that refraining from sin comes naturally, etc, etc) goes unsaid, leaving only actions and words, and these types of folks love their chatter and organized actions) to be present in the lyrics. This is basically the only song I still really like from The Used, having liked most of their albums as a preteen and young teen but, now 20, only treadmill to this one. The lyrics just get deeper and deeper here.
-FoggyPebble @ DeviantART
Now that i have informed you on this lyric correction i will go into great detail about this songs meaning. You see, one day Bert was strolling around his neighborhood Cracker Barrel. He found a nice yellow sofa (like the one seen in The Used's "The Bird and the Worm.") The couch salesman at Cracker Barrel told him that this couch was fire proof. But Bert knew he was lying, because he was Legendary. But he decided to buy it anyway because there were no furniture stores in Orem, Utah. He took the couch and brought it home.
You see, Bert is not very careful. When ever he makes delectable Pilsburry Cinnimon Rolls with his pink apron, he often forgets to turn the oven off, this is a very big fire hazard. So, due to his passion for couches, he decided to fill it with water, to prevent it from catching fire. (This explains why the couch is filled with water in the bird and the worm.)
Butt, Bert often holds strong grudges, he is very angry at the couch sales person for lying to him. So he decides to steal his plow. (Hence in the beggining of the song, you can hear him clearly whisper "Why did you take my plow?" and seconds later he screams "MY PLOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
So this song is basically about lying salesmen, couches, fire, and pink aprons. I hope you agree! i love you!
It is definitely this:
Liar, liar, house on fire,
and the glass tastes messy, chew it louder
bet your tummy hurts you...
So on & so forth. But that definitely how it goes. Listen closer.
thats what im pretty sure it says
i was confused to see these lyrics on here