'Love Lies' by Jessie Murph – Lyrics & Meaning

Jessie Murph's music, especially the kind that makes up her recently dropped debut album, That Ain't No Man That's The Devil, doesn't immediately scream country. Instead, the fiery-voiced songstress tends to dabble in pop, rock and R&B that occasionally offers up a taste of twang.

The record's 'Love Lies', however, is the perfect example of all of the above, a brilliant dose of what makes Murph such a versatile star and country music's latest genre-bender.

'Love Lies' tiptoes before it thunders, opening in a dance of unsure strings then erupting into a stampede of rhythm. The song is hefty, mostly battered by a insistent beat, but a bright banjo trill soon infiltrates the arrangement, gifting it a much-needed lightness and a sure direction forward.

Bitch look good with the lights low
That boy said love, it's a typo
Champagne gone with the dance
I'd love to take that, mmm, but I can't
I seen a lot of motherfuckin' minute men
Fit 'em in a motherfuckin' mini van
Cocaine down to a gram
I'd love to take that bump but I can't

Champaign, cocaine, etcetera – you can partake in your poison all day long, but Jessie Murph's high seems to be love.

"I don't fuck around / I don't dim it down / I don't drink to drown," the artist sings on 'Love Lies', remarking on how she doesn't need uppers or downers when she has a lover.

Love loves that sweet talk through the night
Love loves to look you in your eyes
Love lies
Love loves to shoot you up so high
Love makes you goddamn wanna die
Love lies

Murph notes how love holds your hand, stands by your side, tells you sweet nothings and can "shoot you up so high". However, just like with any substance, too much of a good thing can go bad, and even something as sweet as love can turn sour.

No matter how much love lies, though, that doesn't stop the artist from needing her fix. With every heartache, she'll be right back in the morning, ready to overlook "the shit you can't clean / That make a bitch mean / That make a bitch fiend."

Love loves that sweet talk through the night
Love loves to look you in your eyes
Love lies
Love loves to shoot you up so high
Love makes you goddamn wanna die
Love lies

Bitch look good with the lights low
That boy said love, it's a typo
Champagne gone with the dance
I'd love to take that, mmm, but I can't
I seen a lot of motherfuckin' minute men
Fit 'em in a motherfuckin' mini van
Cocaine down to a gram
I'd love to take that bump but I can't

I don't fuck around
I don't dim it down
I don't drink to drown, I delete it
Still water's worse
I been killed the thirst, I don't need it

Love loves that sweet talk through the night
Love loves to look you in your eyes
Love lies
Love loves to shoot you up so high
Love makes you goddamn wanna die
Love lies

Love lies, lies, lies
Love lies

Maybe in the morning I'm a jackass
Maybe in the morning I go right back
Maybe in the morning I'm in, I'm drinking again
I think that he ain't like that
How thick is the floor 'til you fall through
How quick I'll do what I won't do
See past the shit that I've seen
The shit you can't clean
That make a bitch mean
That make a bitch feen
D-D-did you see that

Love loves that sweet talk through the night
Love loves to look you in your eyes
Love lies
Love loves to shoot you up so high
Love makes you goddamn wanna die
Love lies

Ooh
Love lies, lies, lies
Ooh
Love lies, lies, lies, lies

Love loves that sweet talk through the night
Love loves to look you in your eyes
Love lies
Love loves to shoot you up so high
Love makes you goddamn wanna die
Love lies

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