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Little White Lies (2003 Demo Version)

from Bitch on Wheels (Demo from a Time Capsule) by Suzie Ungerleider

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In the early 2000s, I was touring solo in the US and I remember after a particularly lame show in Cleveland tucking into a room at a Red Roof Inn. On the landline, to stave off the loneliness, I called my buddy and fellow singer-songwriter Fred Eaglesmith and told him my troubles. To which he said, "Suzie, most girls your age are planning their weddings." I laughed and thought this was a funny notion - especially because I thought that he of all people would understand the call of the road even when it becomes desolate in a motel room on the interstate.

Later that year, I wrote this song in honour of all my musician friends who found it difficult to stay faithful to the ones at home and who end up alone like me in a hotel room on the interstate. I had just met one of these road dogs upon whom I based this song and in a twist of irony, ended up getting engaged to him, and indeed, just like all the other girls my age, started planning a wedding.

So this recording is now 20 years old and marks my 20th anniversary to that same road dog I married. Somehow in spite of loving to roam, we have stayed together. We both still love the road but hit it far less often than in our younger days. That passion has always been a bond we share and I feel lucky that we often get to travel it together.

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Little White Lies
By Suzie Ungerleider
Published by Stella Records

Three weeks and your soul is spent
She sent you packing but it ain’t over yet
You will confess but you won’t repent
So you ain’t got a hope in hell.

The moon was shining down on your first kiss
Angora sweater between you and bliss
But now your hit has become a miss
So you ain’t got a hope in hell.

Too many nights on the road, you said
Made you lose your heart where you laid your head
You tried to tell her when you look in her eyes
That her one big love is now a little white lie.

She read your name on the bathroom wall
She’s got your number so you get no call
Kiss came to shove and now your bound to fall
So you ain’t got a hope in hell.

Too many nights on the road, you said
Made you lose your heart where you laid your head
You tried to tell her when you look in her eyes
That her one big love is now a little white lie.

Yellow motel on a dusty road
Between the sheets that are pressed and cold
Dying for someone to take off your clothes
But you ain’t got a hope in hell
No you ain’t got a hope in hell
No you ain’t got a hope in hell.

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from Bitch on Wheels (Demo from a Time Capsule), released March 29, 2023
Lyrics & Music by Suzie Ungerleider

Vocals: Suzie Ungerleider
Guitar: Colin Cripps
Keyboards: Bob Packwood
Bass: Bazil Donovan
Drums: Joel Anderson

Recorded in 2003 at The Woodshed Studios by Nick Holmes

Mastered by Phil Shaw Bova

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Suzie Ungerleider Vancouver, British Columbia

Born in Massachusetts and raised in Western Canada, Suzie Ungerleider began performing under the name Oh Susanna in the mid- 1990s.

For over two decades, thousands of shows, and nine critically acclaimed albums, Suzie’s gloriously emotive, crystalline voice, her bewitching performances and her fierce songwriting have consistently captivated audiences, her peers and the press. ... more

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