Songfacts®:

• "So Far So Fake" is about the sting of betrayal by someone you once trusted as a friend, an ache that lingers even if they say they're sorry. The emotions remain unresolved, leading to lingering anger and difficulty letting go.
  
  "It's a bit angry, a bit sour, a bit difficult to think about," Pierce the Veil lead vocalist Vic Fuentes told Apple Music. "But I always want to write about things that are affecting my life."
• The intro and verses have an unusual time signature, possibly 11/8, before settling into more conventional choruses. This rhythmic quirkiness, combined with the band's post-hardcore flair, gives the song a tension that mirrors the emotional undercurrent of betrayal.
• Though written in 2017, "So Far So Fake" didn't find a home until Pierce the Veil's fifth album, The Jaws of Life. According to Fuentes, it was "one of the only ones that made it from some of the first writing sessions we did before the pandemic," making it something of a survivor track.
• Fuentes wrote the song with Pierce the Veil bassist Jaime Preciado, longtime collaborator Curtis Peoples (co-writer of Gold-certified "Circles" and the #1 Alternative Rock radio hit "Emergency Contact"), songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Steve Solomon (James Arthur's "Say You Won't Let Go," Perrie's Forget About Us") and the track's producer, Paul Meany, who is the frontman of Mutemath and the producer of the entire The Jaws Of Life album.
• The song has been used on TikTok since its release in 2023 but went viral after user @selfishmavchines' July 11 video, in which she winds her waist to the song's groovy, R&B-inflected instrumental break.
• "So Far So Fake" was Pierce the Veil's first #1 on Billboard's Rock & Alternative Airplay and Mainstream Rock Airplay charts. It was also their second visit to the Alternative Airplay summit, following "Emergency Contact" in 2023.