Songfacts®:

• When the core Thompson Twins members Tom Bailey, Alannah Currie and Joe Leeway wrote this song, they didn't assign heavy social commentary to it. "We were just trying to be wacky and a little bit crazy and come up with an idea that we could be irreverent about," Bailey said in our interview.
  
  Over time, however, the song took on new meanings, and in 2014 when Bailey performed the group's hits for the first time since 1987, it opened up to him in a whole new way. "I thought, What are we talking about with this 'Lies' business?," he said. "I realized that it was not only the lies that we tell each other in relationships, but it specifically mentions the media and the way that we're controlled by a view of the world which is presented us through the press and TV and radio and all the other forms of media, and now the Internet."
• The song has an extremely simplistic chorus:
  
  Lies, lies, lies, yeah (x3)
  
  It's very effective, however, since it's so easy to remember and quickly imprints in your brain. There is a meaning behind it as well: the chorus is meant to mimic a taunting schoolyard chant.
• This was the first Thompson Twins single released in the 3-piece lineup of the band. They had seven members when they released their previous album, but pared down to just Bailey, Currie and Leeway for Quick Step and Side Kick (released in the US as Side Kicks).
  
  The song was the group's first Top 40 hit in America, and their first to do better in the States than in their native UK.
• The song spent two weeks at #1 on the American Dance chart in January 1983, becoming the Thompson Twins second chart-topper on that tally following "In the Name of Love."