I'm Fakin

## Audio

"**I'm Fakin**" (alternatively registered as "**I'm Faking**" on ASCAP) is the fourth track and a promotional single on Sabrina Carpenter's fourth studio album, *Singular: Act II*. It was released on July 12, 2019, through Hollywood Records.

The song's message is about testing the waters of a relationship and Carpenter seeing whether her partner is fully committed to her after telling him she wants to break up, even though she doesn't.

## Lyrics

**[Verse 1]**

We're picking fights, we're fully grown

How come we get so immature when we're alone?

I roll my eyes, you check your phone

You say I'm overly dramatic and I know

**[Pre-Chorus]**

'Cause I wanna bring you to your knees

Begging for me now, begging for me

Push you to the edge to see

How far you're willing to reach

**[Chorus]**

I'm slamming the door, but I'm staying

I make up my mind and I change it

It's you that I want when we're breaking

Every time I tell you that we're done, I'm faking

I'm losing the game that I'm playing

Keep pulling me close 'cause I'm fading

Don't forget the words that I'm saying

Every time I tell you that we're done, I'm faking

**[Post-Chorus]**

(La, ra-ra-ra-ra) I'm faking

(La, ra-ra-ra-ra) I'm faking, oh

(La, ra-ra-ra-ra) I'm faking

Every time I tell you that we're done, I'm faking

**[Verse 2]**

We go ego to ego, starting fires

Saying shit we don't mean, I mean we're liars

But the truth is we're messed up and we like it

Shut up, shut up, shut up

**[Pre-Chorus]**

'Cause I wanna bring you to your knees

Begging for me now, begging for me

Push you to the edge to see

How far you're willing to reach, yeah

**[Chorus]**

I'm slamming the door, but I'm staying

I make up my mind and I change it

It's you that I want when we're breaking

Every time I tell you that we're done, I'm faking

I'm losing the game that I'm playing

Keep pulling me close 'cause I'm fading

Don't forget the words that I'm saying

Every time I tell you that we're done, I'm faking

**[Post-Chorus]**

(La, ra-ra-ra-ra) I'm faking

(La, ra-ra-ra-ra) I'm faking, oh

(La, ra-ra-ra-ra) I'm faking

Every time I tell you that we're done, I'm faking

**[Bridge]**

I wanna bring you to your knees

(I wanna bring you to your knees)

Begging for me now (Begging for me)

I wanna see how far you're willing to reach, yeah

(How far you're willing to reach)

**[Chorus]**

I'm slamming the door, but I'm staying (I'm staying)

I make up my mind and I change it (Change it)

It's you that I want when we're breaking (It's you that I want)

Every time I tell you that we're done, I'm faking

I'm losing the game that I'm playing (I'm playing)

Keep pulling me close 'cause I'm fading (Keep pulling me close)

Don't forget the words that I'm saying

Every time I tell you that we're done, I'm faking

**[Post-Chorus]**

(La, ra-ra-ra-ra) I'm faking

(La, ra-ra-ra-ra) I'm faking, oh

(La, ra-ra-ra-ra) I'm faking

Every time I tell you that we're done, I'm faking

## Trivia

* In an interview with *PopCrush*, Carpenter revealed that the song was written and recorded in an hour. She also stated that it was easy for her to write it and that it was "one of the most fun earworm tracks on the record".

## Videos

Sabrina Carpenter - I'm Fakin (Audio Only)
## References

1. ↑ *ACE Repertory* - I'm Faking registration
2. ↑ *PopCrush* - Sabrina Carpenter on Fan Theories, ASMR and the ‘Vulnerable’ Confidence of ‘Singular Act II’