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HARDY and Lainey Wilson joined forces to unleash an ominous anthem that might as well be inspired by a true crime podcast. “Wait In The Truck” released on Friday (August 26), telling the story of a man, HARDY, who encounters a woman trapped in a toxic relationship, Wilson, and makes the decision to take matters into his own hands. Wilson sings:
“I don’t know if he’s angel / Cause angels don’t do what he did / He was hell bent to find the man behind / All the whiskey scars I hid / I never thought my day of justice / Would come from a judge under his seat / But I knew right then I’d never get hit again when he said to me / Wait in the truck / Just wait in the truck”
The music video captures HARDY kicking down the man’s door and committing the crime, opting to wait on the porch for law enforcement officials to show up rather than trying to flee the scene. Ultimately, HARDY ends up behind bars, and Wilson still visits him in prison years later: “It was worth the price to see a brighter side of the girl I picked up that night / And I might be here forever / It ain’t paradise that’s true / But it’s a whole hell of a lot better / Than the place I sent him to.”
Wilson “acted her tail off,” HARDY said in a reel the “Heart Like A Truck” singer shared on Instagram on Friday. She said it was “probably one of THE best music videos I’ve ever been a part of. …I truly feel like it can change lives.”
HARDY and Wilson revealed last week that they would release a collaboration, saying at the time it’s “a special one.” Earlier this week, HARDY received the Academy of Country Music Songwriter of the Year award at the ACM Honors ceremony on Wednesday (August 24), hosted at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. The 15th Annual ACM Honors will make its return to television with its debut on FOX, set to air on Tuesday, September 13 from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET, according to the Academy of Country Music.