Imagine Dragons - Bad Liar

I am using Google Translate because I don't understand English, yet the song is so melodious—it touches the heart and gives me goosebumps.

Ready for this story? You won’t believe it. When this came out I was in and out of jail, addicted, and homeless. Now I have a husband, home and good job. This song and “Clover Cage - Faith In The Fire” are the two songs that helped me get through my depression. I just want people to know things do get better. We are in this together. 😊 we do recover and we are going to

Who’s in 2026😅😅😅😅

2026 Anyone 😥 ???

This is the saddest shit a person can go threw . Being with a Narcissist

As many times as ive listened to this song, ive never watched the video... bawling at 3am on a Monday night

I wage my war on the world inside. This hit HARD..

Who's listening today.....?

Anyone in 2026❤❤?? It sound's marvelous

We are all bad liars , good liars and innocent liars, it all happens in everyone's journey...

He's been masking his depression and other issues to a point that it has negatively affected the relationship now he is breaking and can mask anymore and is surrendering while begging her to stay and deal with it but accepting she might leave, while not believing she will, then she does, and in so doing cuts his last strings that allowed him to "function"

Colors don't mean nothing. Numbers do. It sets the vibe in the atmosphere.

Shes trying to bring back a person who’s dead inside. Shes dancing her heart out. But he can’t see. He’s gone. But she tries and tries and gives him everything she has left, but soon she realizes NOTHING will awaken him. So she accepts her fate and bows down, leaving him behind.

It's 27th February, 5 years passed. Who is still here to listen this masterpiece ❤❤

I'm leaving this comment here in hope that whenever some one likes it, I'll be reminded of this masterpiece .

It's *SEPTEMBER 2021,* Iet's see how many legends are listening to this masterpiece ♡

Everyone is talking about the song,,but not about the girl whose moves are so dmn perfect....
She killed it man🔥

That spin move she makes at 3:44 is crazy. I don’t even know how it’s possible.

Whoever read this, REMEMBER: Life is short. Cut out negativity, forget gossip, say goodbye to people who don´t care. Spend time with people who are always there.✌️✨❤️

Moral of the song: Don't give your heart to someone who doesn't respect your existence.

"So look me in the eyes
Tell me what you see
Perfect paradise
Tearing at the seams" This hits different

*It's been a difficult year*

Gosh that hits different now....

*lyrics of this song* ☺😊
Oh, hush, my dear, it's been a difficult year
And terrors don't prey on
Innocent victims
Trust me, darling, trust me darling
It's been a loveless year
I'm a man of three fears
Integrity, faith and
Crocodile tears
Trust me, darling, trust me, darling

So look me in the eyes
Tell me what you see
Perfect paradise
Tearing at the seams
I wish I could escape
I don't wanna fake it
Wish I could erase it
Make your heart believe

But I'm a bad liar, bad liar
Now you know
Now you know
I'm a bad liar, bad liar
Now you know, you're free to go (go)

Did all my dreams never mean one thing?
Does happiness lie in a diamond ring?
Oh, I've been askin'
Oh, I've been askin' for problems, problems, problems
I wage my war, on the world inside
I take my gun to the enemy's side
Oh, I've been askin' for (trust me, darling)
Oh, I've been askin' for (trust me, darling)
Problems, problems, problems

So look me in the eyes
Tell me what you see
Perfect paradise
Tearing at the seams
I wish I could escape
I don't wanna fake it
Wish I could erase it
Make your heart believe

But I'm a bad liar, bad liar
Now you know
Now you know
That I'm a bad liar, bad liar
Now you know, you're free to go

I can't breathe, I can't be
I can't be what you want me to be
Believe me, this one time
Believe me

I'm a bad liar, bad liar
Now you know
Now you know
That I'm a bad liar, bad liar
Now you know, you're free to go

Oh
Please believe me
Please believe me

Dear reader,

I don't know you and you don't know me. Probably we are not even living in the same country. We look different. We speak different languages. Maybe we are from entirely different generations. We are just complete strangers.

But there is something that connects us. We both have great taste in music

Thank you for being here. God bless you, whoever you are.

Lyrics🎧

Oh, hush, my dear, it's been a difficult year
And terrors don't prey on
Innocent victims
Trust me, darling, trust me darling
It's been a loveless year
I'm a man of three fears
Integrity, faith and
Crocodile tears
Trust me, darling, trust me, darling

So look me in the eyes
Tell me what you see
Perfect paradise
Tearing at the seams
I wish I could escape
I don't wanna fake it
Wish I could erase it
Make your heart believe

But I'm a bad liar, bad liar
Now you know
Now you know
I'm a bad liar, bad liar
Now you know, you're free to go (go)

Did all my dreams never mean one thing?
Does happiness lie in a diamond ring?
Oh, I've been askin'
Oh, I've been askin' for problems, problems, problems
I wage my war, on the world inside
I take my gun to the enemy's side
Oh, I've been askin' for (trust me, darling)
Oh, I've been askin' for (trust me, darling)
Problems, problems, problems

So look me in the eyes
Tell me what you see
Perfect paradise
Tearing at the seams
I wish I could escape
I don't wanna fake it
Wish I could erase it
Make your heart believe

But I'm a bad liar, bad liar
Now you know
Now you know
That I'm a bad liar, bad liar
Now you know, you're free to go

I can't breathe, I can't be
I can't be what you want me to be
Believe me, this one time
Believe me

I'm a bad liar, bad liar
Now you know
Now you know
That I'm a bad liar, bad liar
Now you know, you're free to go

Oh
Please believe me
Please believe me

"Hush my dear, its a difficult year"
That hit different today

A relationship is like a dance - both partners have responsibility to make things work. I understand the dance from both perspectives: the boy has fallen out of love & finally has the courage to tell the girl it's not working anymore. Maybe he's tried to make it work in the past but all it's doing is forcing the love when it's not there & that's bad for the both of them. Rather than trap the girl in a loveless relationship, he tells her the truth (now you know, you're free to go). The girl has done this dance for way too long & after so many attempts at getting him to dance with her (03:50), at the end she understands it's for the best and leaves. Throughout the dance she looks hurt & frustrated, but at the end I think she's happy bc she's no longer left hanging or waiting for something to happen.

All the girls perspective on how the girl is the one suffering in the relationship. Here’s from the boy perspective (make more sense with lyrics). The boy has inner demon/limitation that he is fighting. Can’t dance like the girl but he tries to stay afloat. Also Begging the girl to believe him and that he isnt lying about it. He is trying his absolutely best and held on until the end. The girl didn’t understand / believe, work harder, kept pushing as u can see her dance get incredibly harder. The boy feels even more broken (body bend). She just needed more. He finally collapsed.

No one talking about how talented that girl is

She's doing everything she can to get his attention but it doesn't matter, he's already gone. In the end she bows out gracefully, she's been holding him in place and without her he can't stand.

"so look me in the eyes
tell me what you see
perfect paradise
tearing at the seams" the best part of the song 1:07

If you see a *PARALYSED* guy, what would you do?
*(A)* Call the ambulance.
*(B)* Ask him what is going on.
*(C)* Continue walking, ignoring him.


*(D)* *Dance, of course :)*

You think snakes and spiders are scary?
Imagine dragons..

all time great:
-imagine dragons
-coldplay
-onerepublic
-the script

I just love how the guy is being paid to be held up by a string. 10/10 best job

If I said I didn't love this song I'd be a
_BAD LIAR_

Damn this girl can move! The complete control she has over her body is so impressive and beautiful.

My interpretation of the video: the boy is depressive, already dead in this relationship and the girl is still trying to wake him, sometimes trying to activate him, but living her own live, not letting herself getting too involved. She is doing the whole work, while he is absent. In the end, she's givin up, letting him fall and going her way, closing doors behind her.

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Lying is considered a performance, and here her dance captures that she's the lier. He's dead'ish from taking so much of what she gives and in the end her final act kills the last of what was holding him up as a person?

“We need someone for a music video who can hang around lifelessly for about 5 minutes”

Me: Sign me up

I do not think this is about someone whose heart is not in the relationship.... imo. This is about a person seeing something in someone else that is not really there, and the struggle that person has to face knowing they do not want to let the other person down, but also know they will never be the perfect paradise that that person sees them as. This song is about letting someone know the true you and that you are and not the "perfect" person we all strive to be around others.
"Now you know, You're free to go" is telling someone that you need to accept me for what I really am because I am a bad liar and I cannot keep letting you believe I am something I am not. So it is not so much that one person does not care about the other or the relationship, but that one cannot keep hiding and pretending anymore and is saying either accept me for what and who I really am or you are free now.

The girl is holding up the "image" of him she wants to see and tries to interact with it, but it is not the real him and she is left dancing alone.

0:17 - it's me on mondey.
4:28 - it's me on friday.
Thanks to everybody, you're free.

Personally, I think this video is about coming to terms with problems.

I think the boy represents all the bad things/problems that have happened to the girl or maybe representing the bad things/problems she has caused... Maybe even both? He is dressed entirely in black, and looming - following her and giving no reactions to anything she does.

The girl on the other hand is dressed in white (maybe representing hope, innocence or purity?). She constantly moves and looks very confused when the male gives no indication he sees her. Just continues the discount t-posing.

I think her dancing is metaphorical her trying to distract herself or running away from these problems. But the thing is, the male never goes away or even alleviates. It remains a constant looming presence regardless of how hard she tries.

In the small intermission, where she is posed with her leg up, she is no longer dynamic, she is in stasis, much like the male. Also this is the only time we see tge male actually "move". I think this symbolises her trying to hide from her problems but it doesn't work. Then we see her give her most daring performance to which the male begins to levitate higher, signaling that maybe her methods of distraction or fleeing are working, only for him to return back the way he was. No matter how hard she tries , his presence will continue to loom.
In the end, probably realising that the only way to eacape his presence is to accept it (the only way to really escape her problems is to come to terms with them), she bows to the male and he collapses, no longer a looming presence.
Idk... Just a little theory.

Edit: Ahh! Thank you all for your kind comments!

This girl seems to be carrying this guys “dead weight” she’s trying to force life into him, when clearly, he’s dead inside.
She’s trying to show him the joy, beauty, and goodness in life, as he is blind to it, namely, dead to all of it.

I think that the meaning of the video is:
He is dead inside, and doesn't think the world is a beautiful place or worth living in, and she is dancing to try and show him something beautiful to keep him going, but she is a Bad Liar in her efforts to cover up how bad the world is, and that is why he falls at the end.

Imagine Dragons is one of those bands who will release 3 different videos for a song before dropping the *[Official Music Video]*

My thoughts on the meaning of the video is that the motionless guy symbolizes a dead love, or love that leads nowhere, or a partner that stopped caring about his lover. While the girl symbolizes a person in the relationship that still cares, or doesn't want to believe that their love is over, and does everything and more in attempt to make things work. In the end she realizes it doesn't worth it and it is meaningless, so she bows and goes away, which is the way of saying "I've done what I could, that's enough for me, now I am over it". And the guy falling on the ground symbolizes that at that moment everything really becomes over.

Just my thoughts, maybe Imagine Dragons put completely different meaning in it though :)

Well, many are talking about possession and so on. But I interpreted it differently. The dancing girl is someone who is trying to impress someone, as if he wanted to be noticed, but the person in question does not even notice his presence. She does everything, in the end to be disappointed again.This teaches you not to do everything for a person who does not give you any value.

Well, I get it, just my opinion :P.

PS: Translated Google Translater, my english is bad :/.

So look me in the eyes...
Tell me what you see..
Imagine dragons
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