Bethany Is A Truck

style

• alt country
• americana
• pedal steel
• brushed drums
• male baritone
• weathered and plainspoken
• warm analog
• storytelling
• southern american drawl
• extended arrangement

the numbers

bpm

86

key

G major

energy

0.71

dance

0.93

valence

0.39

vocal at

0.4s

length

3:53

language

En

lyrics

(instrumental)

Eleven years and four hundred thousand miles and one name
I did not name her, a dispatcher did, in 2014, as an insult
It stuck, and now she is Bethany, and I talk to her
(talk to her)
Not constantly. Just at the difficult junctions. And in Nebraska.

Men do this and never mention it (never mention it)
Every long-haul driver in America is in a relationship with a machine

Bethany is a truck
(is a truck)
And she has heard more from me than my daughter has
Bethany is a truck
That is either very sad or just how it is

On the fourteenth of December I am parking her outside a house
And walking up a path I have not walked up since 2013
And Bethany will be at the kerb, idling, like a getaway car
(getaway car)
And I am not going to use her. That is the whole plan.

I told my daughter the truck has a name.
She said "of course she does."
Of course she does. Eleven years. Of course.
(drums return, gently)

Bethany is a truck
(is a truck)
And she has heard more from me than my daughter has
Bethany is a truck
That is either very sad or just how it is

(the fourteenth...)