Dealing with liars is just so frustrating.
When that person is lying to you about stuff, again, that probably doesn’t matter in the
first place, you're just like.
“Just tell me the truth.”
The worst is when you catch somebody in a lie, and you know for 100 percent fact they
are lying, but they keep lying to you.
You're like, “Please just tell the truth.“
The inspiration for “Honestly” came from a recent breakup that I went through with
a pathological liar.
I was just so torn up about it and I realized how much my own mental state was affected,
and how through that process I had questioned my own reality so many times where I was like,
"Am I crazy?
Are these things that he's saying to me true and I'm not just in this planet?"
That type of treatment and behavior really does make you feel crazy.
It makes you question your self worth.
Like I say in the song, it makes you question your sanity.
The thing about a compulsive liar, a pathological liar, a narcissist is they lie about the littlest
things and then those lies get bigger.
So when you think of it, like 'Oh, white lie', it doesn't matter whether you had coffee or
tea, but if you had coffee, and you're saying you had tea, it’s just…
Why are you lying?
The question who's to blame?
I wanted to put that in there because I wasn't in the moment while I was in that relationship
sure if the reason I thought he was lying to me all the time was, “Is he actually
lying to me or am I somebody who has trust issues?
Am I somebody who is pessimistic in just trying to see the bad?”
That was again me questioning myself where it's like yeah, I don't trust you but is it
your fault?
Is this just my own insecurity?
It is sort of a disorder.
There’s a reason it’s called a compulsive liar, a pathological liar because there is
something wrong in their head or it's the way they were raised.
Or whatever it is, that they really can't help it.
Like if somebody is just lying to you all day long, there's something not right, and
you almost have to feel sorry for them.
With the chorus I really just wanted to give the feeling of being completely past it, and
bigger than it, and stronger than it.
And also, completely fed up with it.
Like, you have to have a point with everybody where you reach that breaking point and I
wanted to portray that in anger and in power.
I hope that's what I showed, more so power than anger, but it was a lot of anger.
Did you ever notice, maybe, when you talk to somebody who's lying, people have so much
to hide talk the most because they're trying to cover stuff up.
And then, they start filling in all these little details because they want to make it
seem like oh, this is for sure the truth because how else would I know all this stuff, and
they're talking in circles.
So when somebody is saying too much, that's why it's not enough because this is obviously
a lie, but then you also wonder, what all are you hiding?
The person I wrote it about, I'm sure…
Well let’s not say wrote it about, it was inspired by, definitely
has heard it.
100 percent.
We haven't talked about it, but I really think that he would like it because I know what
type of music he likes, and I think that he probably bops his head while crying.