"The Liars Club"

Album Art for the Acoustic Version by Chase Stone.

## Music Video

Official Music Video on YouTube

**"The Liars Club"** is a song by the American rock band Coheed and Cambria. It is the third single and eighth song on their 2022 album *Vaxis - Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind*. An acoustic version was also released.

## Lyrics

**[Verse 1]**

Liars

It's the fear that wakes us up

The truth that things are such a mess...

Far beyond repair

Your mind out of service

Hard to find the words worth saying

What'd we do to deserve this?

Everything seems broken

When you look at it that way

Oh it's a disease and there ain't no cure

Oh, the truth is such a bore

**[Chorus]**

Oh, do you want me to lie?

‘Cause I can do it, baby... I could do it

Lie to you

Please ask me to

‘Cause life feels such much better

When we just avoid the truth

Baby, are you okay to lie with me

**[Verse 2]**

Deep in disgracе where empty retreats

Farthеr than it seems to be

*(Where)* The older I creak

The pain in my body's

Longing for the days in my teens

Well, I guess I'll accept this carriage

Death behind the wheel with my mama stabbing

Jealousy here in the backseat

**[Chorus]**

Oh, do you want me to lie?

‘Cause I could do it, baby... I could do it

Lie to you

I'm begging you

‘Cause life feels so much better

When we just avoid the truth

Baby, are you okay to lie with me?

**[Interlude]**

Go on and lie, to me…

**[Bridge]**

Baby, are you okay?

Oh, Are you okay with it?

Baby are you okay?

Okay with it?

Cause I could do it baby

**[Chorus]**

Oh, do you want me to lie?

‘Cause I could do it, baby... I could do it

Lie to you

I'm begging you

‘Cause life feels so much better

When we just avoid the truth

Baby, are you okay to lie with me?

Cause I can do it baby I could do it

Lie to you

I'm begging you

Cause I'd feel so much better if we just avoid the truth

Baby are you okay to lie with me?

## Music Video

On February 22, 2022, a music video for the single was released. It was a 3D animated video featuring the events of the first chapter in which Nia Worn and Nostrand Crane break into a HOSS pharmaceutical facility called "Cross Biopharmaceutical Therapeutic Research" to steal medicine they hope will help "heal" their son, Vaxis from whatever keeps him despondent. They eventually trip the guards and have to flee, releasing a fabled creature to help them escape. On board their ship, their robot companion A51 tends to their son. The video was directed by Marco Pavone.

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On March 31, 2022, the band also released a live performance video shot and edited by Ernie Falconer, the band's tour manager. It was complied from several shows including Richmond, VA (for Claudio's close up) and New Haven, CT (for the crowd shots).

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## Story Context

Contrary to the song's title, this song actually does not seem to be about the Liars Club exactly, but instead about Nia and Nos deciding to GO to the group. In Chapter 7 specifically, Nia, after she's returned to the *Rixen Freckle* says to Nos, "It’s easier to avoid the truth sometimes, but we can’t live like that." Which is very similar to the lines "‘Cause life feels so much better / When we just avoid the truth" leading us to this assumption.

The first verse specifically gives the impression this is after their fight with the lines, "The truth that things are such a mess... / Far beyond repair" because this echoes the last two fight perspectives in "Comatose" & "Love Murder One". The follow up lines are also very similar to what Nia and Nos say when she returns. Nos says: "I’m sorry for losing it earlier too. Everything just seemed so broken in the moment. I couldn’t handle it." Nia says, in addition to the original line above: "It’ll kill us slowly, and I love you too much to let our weak spots poison us drop by drop." Which echoes the themes of that verse pretty well: they want to make up, but they're not exactly sure how and they're kind of stumbling through it.

I'm going to skip the chorus for just a minute and move on to the second verse. This verse seems to be from the Trafinder Brothers's perspectives, particularly Gob's. In this chapter, he not only confesses that he had a crush on Nia, but also goes on to say he's over it—it would've been nice had things worked out between them, but they didn't and he respects Nos and accepts the outcome. Siv also has accepted he's conjoined to his brother, but surely he also longs for the days when he had a little privacy and separation.

And this brings us to our chorus which is a comment on these situations: They *could* avoid these truths. It would be easy, and would *feel* so much better than having to admit painful realities. But ultimately, when they ask each other, they can't. They both agreed (albeit implicitly) that they can't lie with each other.

## Background

The melody for this song was written right after *Vaxis 1* was complete, but the lyrics started to take shape due to the pandemic with the idea that perhaps a false reality would be better to live in.

## Trivia

* This song was previewed on the band's TikTok on February 8th ahead of it's official release.
* This song was performed live on their Great Destroyer tour ahead of it's official release.
* This song was made Kerrang's Single of the Week on March 28, 2022.
* This track was one of the few tracks that were written during *Vaxis I*'s release.
* An acoustic version was released on April 27, 2022.

## References

1. ↑ Coheed and Cambria. Booklet. *Vaxis - Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind*, Roadrunner Records, 2022.
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltKTHtMmDJQ
3. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CaRmPMOLyqa/
4. ↑ https://www.sites.google.com/view/pav1animation/music-videos?authuser=0
5. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-yvF7Lngr8
6. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/TheFence/comments/vklxyl/claudios\_trackbytrack\_descriptions\_from\_allmusic/
7. ↑ https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdknbgMX/
8. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/TheFence/comments/suk29o/liars\_club/
9. ↑ https://twitter.com/Roadrunner\_UK/status/1508435095950082051
10. ↑ Epstein, Dan. "Coheed and Cambria." Revolver (Issue 159), Spring 2022, pp. 58-66.
11. ↑ Hickie, James. "Interview with Claudio Sanchez" AltPress (Issue #406.1; May 2022), 16 May 2022, pp. 60-67.
12. ↑ https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B09YC8PPTF
13. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXBpC\_EfQMY