The Heart Never Lies

"The Heart Never Lies"
Song

"The Heart Never Lies" is the thirteenth single from the British pop rock band McFly. It was released on October 22, 2007, as a part of the band's All the Greatest Hits album.

Rumours were around that the song was going to originally be called "We Are The Lovers", but then the name "The Heart Never Lies" was officially confirmed on the band's official website and MySpace.

The song debuted at number three in the official UK Singles Chart, being beaten by Take That, "Rule the World"' which charted at number two, and Leona Lewis, "Bleeding Love" which debuted at number one. Although The Heart Never Lies debuted at number three, it sold 9,000 more copies than their last number one hit Baby's Coming Back did in its first week (40,000 against 31,000).

"The Heart Never Lies" also reached number sixteen in Ireland.

Song

Although a love song, Fletcher revealed in an interview that the line,

...Another year over and we're still together / It's not always easy, but I'm here forever...

Started Off Being About The Band But Then Was Turned Into A Love Song.

Exclusives

"The Heart Never Lies" was played for the first time at V Festival on the August 18, 2007. The band also performed the song at the Blackpool Illuminations on August 31, 2007. The performance was different from the one at V however, as lead singer Tom Fletcher, couldn't make it to the show, leaving Danny Jones to sing the song alone.

BBC Radio 1 were the first radio station to play "The Heart Never Lies". McFly themselves dropped the song in to Scott Mills on September 11 2007. McFly performed the song on Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway on September 15, 2007. This was the first TV performance of the single.

Track list and formats

• UK CD1 Single

1. The Heart Never Lies (Full length original 5 min version)
2. Umbrella

• UK CD2 Single (With McFly stickers)

1. The Heart Never Lies (Radio Edit)
2. Ignorance
3. Interview
4. Sofa, Hyundai, Administration
5. The Heart Never Lies Video

• Heart-shaped 7"

1. Photo and Lyrics (both single version)

• Digital EP

1. The Heart Never Lies
2. Umbrella (Live from Tour)
3. Interview Part 2
4. "Just my Luck"

Video

A bulletin was sent to friends of McFly's MySpace page on September 8, 2007 announcing that they had shot the video to the single in Bath. The video was released onto music channels on September 21, 2007.

The video sees the band performing in the rain, with shots to a tragic love story which ends with the couple driving straight into water. The official website sees that it has 'got to be up there with the best videos McFly have ever made', and has been quoted as completely different from the band's past music videos.

The guy that drowns in the car is played by Tom Graham who also plays Tom Archer in the long running radio 4 show The Archers"