wait in the truck

About this song

Hardy wrote the song with Hunter Phelps after the two discussed how they would react if their fiancées were attacked, and the title came from that conversation. The track was worked up in March 2021 at Jordan Schmidt's home studio, with Renee Blair providing female vocals, and producer Joey Moi later re-recorded the main instrumentation and added a gospel choir. It was released on August 29, 2022, as the lead single from Hardy's second studio album, The Mockingbird & the Crow.

What it's about

The song tells of a man who finds a battered woman by the road, confronts her abuser in his trailer, and kills him when the abuser reaches for a shotgun. It ends with the man in prison serving his sentence.

Summary written with AI, based on the song's Wikipedia article. Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Fun facts

• Written by Hunter Phelps, Jordan Schmidt, HARDY and Renee Blair.
• Produced by Joey Moi, HARDY, Jordan Schmidt and Derek Wells.