What does A Beautiful Lie mean?

30 Seconds To Mars: A Beautiful Lie Meaning

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Song Released: 2007


A Beautiful Lie Lyrics

Lie awake in bed at night
And think about your life
Do you want to be different?
Try to let go of the truth
The battles of your youth
'Cause this is just a game

It's a beautiful lie
It's the perfect denial
Such a beautiful lie to...

  1. anonymous
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    Feb 25th 2011 !⃝

    It's a good song, I think it's about the beautiful things we trade for real fufulment. The real happeness is not in killing but giving, and people have lost touch with what is good and meaningful. Actions people have never even felt or even tried. We've traded our souls for cars ,houses, luxuries and beautiful things in a vain attempt to satisfy a need ,a hollowness that can't be quenched with things. We can identify only if we suffer if were hungry, then comes understanding.

  2. anonymous
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    Feb 15th 2011 !⃝

    Guys this is an anti God/ Religion song like Hurricane.
    It basically saying that growing up with religion is a beautiful lie and that people should let it go. It is very upsetting to me that this band has many anti God messages in there music because I really like their style of Music but not their message... P.S. in the video near the end when he is screaming lie it flashes a cross.

  3. anonymous
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    Jan 6th 2011 !⃝

    I think it mean the person was lied that he was loved, but it was a lie because the other person doesn't want to hurt his feeling. But eventually the person found out that he was lied to and was tricked to keep on believing

  4. anonymous
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    Dec 19th 2010 !⃝

    I see a lot of people saying this song means something about the icecaps. Personally...I disagree. I might be the first to say this but whenever I listen to the song I think of a young couple doing something they shouldn't be doing...That's what I think

  5. anonymous
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    Dec 19th 2010 !⃝

    well a song has alot of meanings i found loads but the most logical one is that its about life..

    Lie awake in bed at night
    And think about your life
    Do you want to be different?
    Try to let go of the truth
    The battles of your youth
    'Cause this is just a game
    {the people who know the truth about life being pointless and they dress differently and there different }

    It's a beautiful lie
    It's the perfect denial
    Such a beautiful lie to believe in
    So beautiful, beautiful lie makes me
    {life is a beautiful lie its not real its beautiful but its a lie its just a game}

    It's time to forget about the past
    To wash away what happened last
    Hide behind an empty face
    Don't ask too much, just say
    'Cause this is just a game
    {once u learn the truth u will want to always hide and not say anything}
    'Everyone's looking at me
    I'm running around in circles, baby
    A quiet desperation's building higher
    I've got to remember this is just a game'
    {life has different paths if u get lost it doesnt matter cuz its all just a game }

    hope u liked it and no im not emo even though ever1 calls me that xD

  6. anonymous
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    Dec 17th 2010 !⃝

    I think this song means that his life could have been a lie and he keeps thinking about how his life is different:
    'Do you want to be different?'
    That's what I think and how he feels like maybe a nobody and how his life isn't so great

  7. anonymous
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    May 26th 2010 !⃝

    for some reason i interpret it as a wife in an abusive relationship and lying to herself and trying to convince herself and everyone shes happy despite the scars.... since ive heard this son thats the image that comes into my head :\

  8. anonymous
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    Feb 19th 2010 !⃝

    i've always interpreted it as how hes pretending everythings okay when really hes searching for something more. the way he lies to himself and everyone else that its okay, a beautiful lie because it is what he wants, its beautiful to believe in, but deep down he knows that its not the truth and it is in fact a lie. i think the song is his confession that he is living a lie and knows it, and its something he wants to change.

  9. anonymous
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    Feb 8th 2010 !⃝

    Like every song different people take different meanings it. My personal view is that it is about realising that something in your life or in society isn't right and we have been living a lie and believeing that lie and then deciding that we want finally break out of that lie ad put the past behind us.

  10. anonymous
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    Jan 7th 2010 !⃝

    Unbekannte : Beautiful lie... it speaks for itself. i always listen to it when i'm hurt by someone's lies and it's always the same. i think this song pass to everything about lying. we often prefer to believe into such 'beautiful lies' cuz it's better to live with a thought that a person which is important for us tells us the truth. deep inside we know (s)he's lying but we kinda 'agree' to be hurt than to lose this person, even though (s)he often doesn't see it.

    'Lie awake in bed at night
    And think about your life
    Do you want to be different?'

    yup, when we're hurt, lying & crying in bed, we always think 'gotta change it, end with it' but in fact we usually never change cuz we don't have that much strength to do this. and ofc we have a hope it'll be better...
    but we can never be sure what is right and that's why we're stuck in such situation.

    btw, sometimes we want something to happen but WHEN it happens we're shocked etc. we don't wanna believe in this, cuz it seems impossible and too beautiful to be true - cuz we WANTED that and we don't want things we can have just like that. we think 'no no no... this can't be possible' but deep inside we start to believe in it. then the problems start - if it comes out it's a lie, we're mad at ourselves that we believed in it...
    yeah, beautiful lie... how stupid are we sometimes huh

  11. anonymous
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    Dec 28th 2009 !⃝

    dude..
    this is about global warming..yeah.. but only on the surface!
    this song has a deeper meaning...
    sorry but try to go deeper ... the surface isn't always the reality..
    so..
    arrrggghh...just shut up, yeah!
    and finally try to find your own deeper meaning, yeah???
    thank you

  12. anonymous
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    Dec 4th 2009 !⃝

    For all of those idiots out there it's about the polar ice caps melting, about how the media is feeding us lies about this will blow over and the earth goes through phases, its al gore's inconvenient truth all over again. That's why jared wanted to film where? Antarctica. but they wouldn't let him so they filmed it in greenland, jared almost died making the video, he slipped and almost fell off the glacier, and they all could have died from frostbite. Then they sent him the wrong editing thing, so he spent his own money to fix it, and all of the money from that video went to stopping global warming, so all of you talking about this anorexic bull shit, shut up, this song actually has an important meaning. and if you don't believe me go to abeautifullie.org

  13. anonymous
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    Nov 25th 2009 !⃝

    guys..this song has not a certain meaning...for everyone of u it could mean something else.
    ok my story: a couple of years ago i started to think about suicide. i put on a mask to hide my real feeelings about life. i was funny...on the facade.laughed all the time. but there where signs that showed what i felt that time. nobody saw them.because they wanted to life the lie..it was easier for em that way

  14. ChiOokami
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    Aug 24th 2009 !⃝

    beautiful lie i believe is about how people like to put themselves in this perfect world and think that everything is just beautiful. when in reality it is all just a beautiful lie.

  15. anonymous
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    Aug 11th 2009 !⃝

    I agree with the person who called you fools, the song is supposed to personl and interpreted by you.
    it would be sad if songs were about specific things, because then we couldn't hold them so close.
    and by the way, if you want to believe it's about the arctic circle (probably because the vid shows it), that's your choice. but im telling you, its up to you to decide what it means for You.




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