Your Love Is a Lie

Infobox Single
Name = Your Love Is a Lie


Artist = Simple Plan
from Album = Simple Plan
Released = February 2008 (radio)
April 19, 2008 (Australia)
Format = Digital download
Recorded = 2007
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 3:41
Label = Lava / Atlantic
Producer = Dave Fortman, Danja
Last single = "When I'm Gone"
(2007)
This single = "Your Love Is a Lie"
(2008)
Next single = "Save You"
(2008)

"Your Love Is a Lie" is the second single by Simple Plan from their self-titled third studio album.

The song exists in two versions. One found on explicit editions of the CD, in which lead singer Pierre Bouvier sings the word "fuck" in the second verse singing "And do you think about me when he fucks you?". In clean versions of the CD and for radio play, the word is omitted, and he instead sings "And do you think about me when he touches you?". This is the third song in which Simple Plan use a swear word, the first was their first single "I'm Just a Kid" ("hell", which is often changed to "fuck" in live performance), and their second being their cover of Cheap Trick's "Surrender" ("fucking"). The verse's chord progression is similar to Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and Oasis' "Wonderwall". [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/chartblog/2008/04/simple_plan_your_love_is_a_lie_1.shtml Chart Blog. Simple Plan - 'Your Love Is A Lie'] ]

Music video

The band flew to Los Angeles to shoot the music video. It was shot on March 6th. The video was directed/produced by Wayne Isham.

The video is a straightforward representation of the song. It intersperses shots of the band playing (later in the video, amid wind-blown blossoms) with shots of a Pierre Bouvier's girlfriend, meeting (and having sex) with another man, while Bouvier, betrayed by the woman, waits in agony in his apartment. His apartment has a view of the man's apartment, with a clear view of a bedroom's window, where he sees them have an assignation.

After two weeks, the video had 1,000,000 views on YouTube. [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAbcgmwq3EU YouTube - Simple Plan - Your Love Is A Lie ] ] It currently has more than fourteen million views.

Charts

Track listing

Australian CD Single

#"Your Love Is a Lie" (Explicit Album Version)
#"Time to Say Goodbye" (Live in Germany)
#"Your Love Is a Lie" (Live in New York City) [Cite web|url=http://www.sanity.com.au/product/product.asp?sku=2107505&affiliate=19569|title=Sanity "Your Love Is a Lie"|accessdate=2007-10-30|publisher=Sanity]

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