This song was originally titled “Experts Say,” but I wanted something more provocative. Why wait until the end of the song for the punch line?
This was an interesting concept to me—not that experts lie on purpose (though sometimes they do, I’m sure). It was that a true expert often knows way too much to properly communicate information to a layperson. Hence the lyric, “from deft to deafening.” A lie signifies intent though. What if the lack of the ability to dumb it down translates to intent? That’s what I was going for here.
There’s more to it it, though. The phrase “experts say” is often used as a lazy stand-in for the truth, a baseless shortcut. Who are these experts? Are you citing a real study? If it’s not the expert who’s lying, then maybe it’s the person using the phrase in this way.
The source matters if we are to trust information. The narrator winks and offers another lie, “we’re not quick enough to get the difference.”
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