From the recording Cold Hard Truth
Cold Hard Truth is a soul-stirring bluegrass tune about walking away from a toxic relationship when it feels like you’ve already lost yourself. It's about choosing familiar pain—doubting whether you'll ever feel whole again.
With lyrical honesty and Appalachian grit, Sequoia Rose lays bare the emotional weight of leaving someone you once loved—even when you know they broke you more than they ever built you up. It's about heartbreak, healing, and looking for your voice through the cracks but falling short.
Lyrics
You can tell me that I'm better off all alone
And maybe you wouldn't be lying
No It don't feel right when I'm by myself rolling down the road
Why am I even trying
That's just the cold hard truth
I ain't better off without you
And I ain't ever gonna be couth
That's just the cold hard
That's just the cold hard truth
After you shut me out every bit of love feels just like heaven
And I'm forever the fool
I can't get away I know I'll fall to pieces here without you so what's a stupid fool to do
That's just the cold hard truth
I ain't better off without you
And I ain't ever gonna be couth
That's just the cold hard
That's just the cold hard truth
Questioning my sanity
What's the highest road for me
I wish that I could trust myself
Maybe I should kill myself
That's just the cold hard truth
I ain't better off without you
And I ain't ever gonna be couth
That's just the cold hard
That's just the cold hard truth