Songfacts®:

• This is one of 14 songs from the soundtrack and concept album, The Lone Ranger: Wanted - Music Inspired by the Film. The movie's director, Gore Verbinski, listened to the artists each day on the way to the studio and tapped them to record for the soundtrack.
• Williams admitted to Billboard magazine that she was initially unsure if she would be able to fulfill the commission. "I wasn't sure I was even going to have time to write and record this before leaving for a European tour but it all came together in a couple of days," she said. "Sometimes the best things happen that way."
• Lucinda Williams went into a Los Angeles studio with her band during the fall of 2013 and recorded 35 tracks in 21 days. She put 20 of the cuts into a double album titled Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone. The songs came from several different sources – this one was originally penned by Williams for a collection of tunes on the theme of the Lone Ranger, a Walt Disney project tied to the Johnny Depp film. "I was asked to do different projects where I had to come up with a song," Williams recalled to Billboard magazine. "For instance, that song 'Everything Changes But the Truth,' I wrote that for a compilation album of songs that were inspired by The Lone Ranger movie, so I came up with that fairly quickly. It was kind of a good exercise, and a lot of times that can spur other things."
  
  "We started recording in October of last year and didn't really think about it," she added. "We just kept going, and we suddenly got all these great tracks and realized we're not going to narrow this down to one album."