'That's No Way To Tell A Lie is a song basically about the push and pull of your head and your heart telling you different, conflicting things about the way you should feel about religion. I grew up in the Valleys in Wales in a very left wing environment and you always grew up with that great old Marxist cliche that religion was the obsolete of the masses. I wad taught from an early age that religion was just pointless to our existence. That song is just about your head telling you that there's no way in this world you need a religion to get by but your heart always telling you that perhaps you're still searching for one. So like I said, that song's just about the conflict, the dilemma between the heart and the head in terms of realising religion is obsolete, destructive, stupid, but your heart actually wanting one.'
-James Dean Bradfield
'That's No Way To Tell A Lie is a song basically about the push and pull of your head and your heart telling you different, conflicting things about the way you should feel about religion. I grew up in the Valleys in Wales in a very left wing environment and you always grew up with that great old Marxist cliche that religion was the obsolete of the masses. I wad taught from an early age that religion was just pointless to our existence. That song is just about your head telling you that there's no way in this world you need a religion to get by but your heart always telling you that perhaps you're still searching for one. So like I said, that song's just about the conflict, the dilemma between the heart and the head in terms of realising religion is obsolete, destructive, stupid, but your heart actually wanting one.' -James Dean Bradfield