"they tell on themselves"(Response Song)

[Spoken Intro] You know what's funny? Everybody got the details. The truck. The motel. The girl. The bar stool. The timeline. They got all that. What they don't got... Is the reason. Yeah... That's the part nobody talks about. [Verse 1] Heard my truck got spotted downtown Bluejay parking lot making rounds Girl riding shotgun by the window glass Town built a whole movie from that Nobody said she lost her husband Three weeks before that Friday night Nobody said she called me crying Said she didn't wanna be alive But that don't spread like gossip That don't fit the story well Compassion ain't exciting So nobody ever tells [Chorus] They tell on themselves When they talk about me They got the where and when But not the in-between Everybody loves the smoke Nobody asks what caused the heat They tell on themselves More than they tell on me [Verse 2] Yeah I checked into a motel Room two-fourteen off the interstate But what they leave out Was I drove fourteen hours straight Truck broke down outside Jackson Waiting on a part to come But "trucker sleeps in motel room" Sounds better when the talking starts Everybody heard the rumor Nobody heard the facts Funny how the whole truth Never travels quite that fast [Chorus] They tell on themselves When they talk about me They got the headlines But not the in-between Everybody loves a villain When life ain't going sweet They tell on themselves More than they tell on me [Bridge] I ain't saying I'm perfect Lord knows I got scars I made mistakes Broke some hearts Spent too much time chasing roads And not enough time standing still But half the things they're blaming me for Ain't mine to carry still [Breakdown] You heard the truck... You heard the bar... You heard the motel... You heard the girl... But did you hear the reason? No... Cause reasons don't travel Like rumors do. [Final Chorus] They tell on themselves Every time they speak Every little rumor got a wound underneath They point at me Trying to hide what they don't wanna see They tell on themselves More than they tell on me Truth don't need a crowd Truth don't need applause Truth survives the silence Long after gossip's lost They tell on themselves And that's enough for me [Outro] Funny thing about small towns... Everybody knows the story... Nobody knows the weight behind it. Yeah... Written by 12Gauge858 Music