Songfacts®:

• Here, Lainey Wilson compares the journey she's taken since moving to Nashville to a rusty old truck.
  
  I got a heart like a truck
  It's been drug through the mud
  Runs on dreams and gasoline
  And that old highway holds the key
  
  When Wilson first moved from Louisiana to Music City in 2011, she lived in a camper trailer outside of a recording studio. "It was some hard days," she told The Advocate. "It taught me that this thing was not going to be easy. It taught me perseverance. And when things didn't work out my way, when doors closed right in my face, that made me work harder."
• Lainey Wilson wrote the song with two of her best friends, Trannie Anderson and Dallas Wilson, during the pandemic. "We like to call ourselves the Heart Wranglers," she told Billboard. "We initially wrote the song really sped up and kind of rockin' and then we ended up slowing it back down."
  
  The song finds the singer embracing scars as badges of honor. It's those bumps and bruises that build character and teach you the most about yourself. "'Heart Like A Truck' is semi-autobiographical I guess you could say," Wilson told Audacy's Rob + Holly. "It's about finding freedom in strength, not being afraid of the scratches and the scars along the way. It's about embracing those things because at the end of the day that makes you, you!"
• Wilson is proud of her hardened heart and the strength she's found from being dragged through the mud. "I could sit here and tell you sob stories all day about my life and moments where I was living in a camper trailer and things were falling down all around me and people were passing away," she told Taste of Country Nights. "It was just hurt."
• Jay Joyce, the producer of Wilson's major-label debut album Sayin' What I'm Thinkin', helmed "Heart Like A Truck."