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...