The album kicks off with “Dead on the Vine,” a feisty, sultry honky tonk shuffle about diving headfirst into a relationship you know won’t last. Nolan paints a picture of romantic inevitability and looming disappointment by using vivid metaphors like gifted roses wilting and stalled cars on the I-5. “I let you take me for a ride / Now we drift off the side / Oh, we’re dead on the vine,” she sings with bittersweet charm.

“You hook up with someone, and you’re like, ‘Okay, I trust you,’ and then they drive you off a cliff,” Nolan laughs. “That’s love, man!”

Personnel:
Rosy Nolan: vocals, acoustic guitar
Julian McClanahan: fiddle
Doc Brown: steel guitar
Doug Organ: piano
Ryan Posner: double bass
Jim Doyle: drums
Maesa Pullman: backing vocals
Produced by Rosy Nolan
Co-Producers: Heather Anne Lomax and Jason Hiller
Engineered, Mixed, and Mastered by Jason Hiller at Electrosound Recordings (Los Angeles, CA)
© & ℗ 2025 Rosy Nolan / Treble in Mind Music (ASCAP)
all rights reserved

Lyrics

Dead on the vine
Gone before it was our time
We were soaking up the sun
Having us some fun
Now, we’re dead on the vine

You brought flowers to my door
Our clothes are now on the floor
But those roses they turn brown
Their heads hanging down
Oh, they’re dead on the vine

Dead on the vine
Gone before it was our time
We were soaking up the sun
Having us some fun
Now, we’re dead on the vine

You called me right after work
Something you said really hurt
One more hope and a try
One last kiss then goodbye
Till we’re dead on the vine

Dead on the vine
Gone before it was our time
We were soaking up the sun
Having us some fun
Now, we’re dead on the vine

Driving up Tejon Pass
This Mercury won’t last
I let you take me for a ride
Now we drift off the side
Oh, we’re dead on the vine

Dead on the vine
Gone before it was our time
We were soaking up the sun
Having us some fun
Now, we’re dead on the vine

We were soaking up the sun
Having us some fun
Now, we’re dead on the vine