Meghan Trainor "lips are moving" lyric analysis

1. Lyric Analysis
BY BETHANY STEPHENSON

2. Song Chosen
Meghan Trainor- “Lips are Moving”
“Lips Are Movin” is the second radio single off Trainor’s Title (2015), following the worldwide hit
“All about that bass”. In this fast-paced doo-wop throwback, Meghan dumps her cheating
boyfriend with style.
• Heavily centered around lips.
• Draws on a long tradition of songs with this theme: getting sick of your partner’s lying,
cheating ways and kicking them out.

3. Lyrics
 If your lips are moving, if your lips are moving
If your lips are moving, then you're lyin', lyin', lyin',
babe
If your lips are moving, if your lips are moving
If your lips are moving then you're lyin', lyin', lyin',
babe
Boy, look at me in my face
Tell me that you're not just about this bass
You really think I could be replaced?
Nah... I come from outer space
And I'm a classy girl
I'm a hold it up
You full of something but it ain't love
And what we got is straight overdue
Go find somebody new
You can buy me diamond earrings
And deny-ny-ny, ny-ny-ny, deny-ny
But I smell her on your collar so goodbye-bye-bye
Bye-bye-bye
I know you're lyin
'Cause your lips are movin
Tell me do you think I'm dumb?
I might be young
But I ain't stupid
Talking round in circles with your tongue
I gave you bass, you gave me sweet talk
Saying how I'm your number one
But I know you're lyin
'Cause your lips are movin
Baby, don't ya know I'm done
If your lips are moving, if your lips are moving
If your lips are moving, then you're lyin', lyin', lyin',
babe
If your lips are moving, if your lips are moving
If your lips are moving, then you're lyin', lyin', lyin',
babe
Hey, baby, don't you bring them tears
'Cause it's too late, too late, babe, oh
You only love me when you're here
You're so two-faced, two-faced, babe, oh
You can buy me diamond earrings
And deny-ny-ny, ny-ny-ny, deny-ny
But I smell her on your collar so goodbye-bye-bye
Bye-bye-bye
I know you're lyin
'Cause your lips are moving
Tell me do you think I'm dumb?
I might be young, but I ain't stupid
Talking round in circles with your tongue
I gave you bass, you gave me sweet talk
Saying how I'm your number one
But I know you're lyin
'Cause your lips are moving
Baby, don't ya know I'm done
Come on, say!
If your lips are moving, if your lips are moving
If your lips are moving, then you're lyin', lyin', lyin',
babe
If your lips are moving (Alright now)
If your lips are moving (I wanna hear ya'll singing
with me)
If your lips are moving
Then you're lyin', lyin', lyin', babe (Here we go!)
I know you're lyin
'Cause your lips are moving
Tell me do you think I'm dumb?
I might be young, but I ain't stupid
Talking round in circles with your tongue
I gave you bass, you gave me sweet talk
Saying how I'm your number one
But I know you're lyin
'Cause your lips are moving
Baby, don't you know I'm done

4. What do the words mean?
“If your lips are moving”- At this point in the relationship, almost everything, if not everything, that the guy says is a lie. So if his lips are
moving, he must be lying.
“Boy, look at me in my face”- It’s a variation on the “My face is up here” expression women have to use on the easily distracted.
“You really think I could be replaced, Nah, I’m from outer space”- A play on the phrase “out of this world.” She’s one of kind and you won’t
find another like her. Unlike the guy in that Beyoncé song, she’s irreplaceable.
“What we got, straight overdue, go find somebody new”- What they got is their (failing) relationship. It’s dying out because of him and his
affairs. She’s not gonna take it anymore, so he better leave her and find another girl to manipulate.
“You can buy me Diamond earrings and Deny ny ny”- When he figures out that she’s doubting him, he’ll try to placate her with jewellery
and deny the truth. But she knows the truth and nothing can buy her love.
“But I smell her on your collar so goodbye bye bye”- A common sign of cheating is the presence of another person’s perfume/cologne on a
partners clothes. Meghan notices this when she kisses her lover and smells his collar–a sure sign that it’s time to leave him.
“Do you think im dumb? I might be young, but I ain’t stupid Talking around in circles with your tounge”- At this point, Trainor knows her
lover is lying and thinks she’s too dumb to see the truth. She continues with mouth metaphors by using the idiom “talking around in
circles”–adding “with your tongue” so that it’s as if his tongue itself is twisted.
“I gave you bass, you gave me sweet talk”- Again, she gave him sex, which was all he wanted, and in return he gave her nice compliments
and flattery.
“Saying how I’m your number one”- He claims Trainor is his “number one” girl. “Number one” also ties back to “Bass,” which topped music
charts worldwide (anyone can flatter her with that fact).