MIRANDA LAMBERT - "Two Things Can Be True" - MCA Records/Vanner Records

Miranda Lambert has long understood that the most affecting country songs rarely offer clean resolutions. On “Two Things Can Be True,” the latest advance track from her forthcoming album Crisco, she leans fully into that tradition, turning romantic uncertainty into a quietly devastating piece of classic country storytelling. Released September 18, 2026, the song arrives ahead of Crisco’s October 2 release through MCA, establishing an intimate, traditional mood for the album’s next chapter.

At its center is a familiar but difficult contradiction: a relationship can be ending even while love remains. Lambert inhabits the perspective of a woman who recognizes that her partner’s heart is drifting toward someone else but cannot quite bring herself to walk away. Rather than forcing the story toward reconciliation or revenge, “Two Things Can Be True” remains suspended in that uncomfortable middle ground. The tension is not something the song resolves; it is what gives the song its power.

Musically, Lambert turns away from contemporary country’s more polished pop tendencies and embraces an older, more spacious sound. Weeping steel guitar and sweeping strings provide the song’s emotional architecture, while subtle synthesizer textures add atmosphere without overwhelming its traditional character. The arrangement recalls the grand, aching country balladry associated with Patsy Cline. Lambert herself has described the song as “country through and through” with an old-school Patsy Cline feeling, and that influence comes through as an aesthetic touchstone rather than an imitation.

Her vocal performance is equally effective. Lambert sings in a warm, lower register, allowing the natural grain of her voice to carry the song’s sadness. There is no need for theatrical vocal fireworks; the ache is embedded in the phrasing. Her description of the experience as feeling “almost like singing a duet with the steel and strings” is especially apt. The instruments do not merely accompany her—they seem to answer her, extending emotions that words alone cannot quite contain.

The song’s title captures its central insight with striking simplicity. Love and loss, attachment and betrayal, devotion and resignation can exist simultaneously. Lambert gives that emotional ambiguity room to breathe, connecting the song to the storytelling tradition that has long defined her strongest work. Her narrator is neither neatly vindicated nor easily defeated; she is simply caught in a feeling that refuses to resolve itself on schedule.

As the fourth track on the forthcoming 12-song Crisco, “Two Things Can Be True” offers another glimpse into the album’s broad musical palette. The project also includes “Till The Going’s Gone,” “Sunset Marquis” and Lambert’s Grammy-nominated duet with Chris Stapleton, “A Song To Sing.” Lambert has called “Two Things Can Be True” her favorite song on the record, saying it “found its own little corner of the Crisco world.” That corner is easy to hear: intimate, traditional and emotionally unresolved.

“Two Things Can Be True” is a reminder of why country heartbreak songs endure. Lambert does not need a Hollywood ending to make the story feel complete. She recognizes the messiness of loving someone who is already slipping away and trusts the patient arrangement, steel guitar, strings and distinctive voice to tell the rest. It is a classic country lament with a modern emotional understanding—and a persuasive glimpse of what Crisco may have in store.

(Review Written By: Chad Carlson)