Grandma warned me 'bout the mockingbird's song
Says it sounds so sweet but something's always wrong
Every note it sings was stolen from another
Beautiful deceiver, truth's forgotten lover

You sang me promises like poetry at night
Painted me a future that was shining bright
Said you'd give me stars and hang the moon for me
Every word so perfect, I was blind to see

You're a mockingbird liar, singing borrowed tunes
Stole your pretty words from other women's rooms
I believed your song was written just for me
But mockingbirds don't sing their own melody
You're a mockingbird liar, and I was such a fool
To think your stolen heart could ever be true

Now I hear the real one singing at dawn's first light
Same sweet deception in every note takes flight
That's when I finally understood the truth I'd learned
You're just like that bird - beautiful but false in turn

You're a mockingbird liar, singing borrowed tunes
Stole your pretty words from other women's rooms
I believed your song was written just for me
But mockingbirds don't sing their own melody
You're a mockingbird liar, and I was such a fool
To think your stolen heart could ever be true

They say mockingbirds can learn a hundred songs
But not a single one is theirs
Just echoes
Just lies wrapped in pretty feathers
That's all you ever were - an echo of love you saw somewhere else but never felt yourself

So fly away with all your borrowed phrases now
Take your stolen songs, I've figured you out somehow
That a mockingbird can't love, can only play pretend
I've learned to tell the real from the lies that never end

You're a mockingbird liar, singing borrowed tunes
Left me with the echoes of your empty rooms
I believed your song was written just for me
But mockingbirds don't have their own melody
You're a mockingbird liar, now I see it clear
Some hearts are just for show, they were never really here

You're a mockingbird liar, now I see it clear
Some hearts are just for show, they were never really here

Now when I hear that mockingbird call
I don't curse it, no, I thank it after all
For teaching me that pretty lies still break
And borrowed love was never mine to take
Mockingbird liar
Mockingbird liar
I finally know the truth...