Leave it to Miranda Lambert to rip our hearts out with a honky-tonk ballad ten years in the making. Her latest album, "Postcards From Texas," is already topping charts and making headlines, but it's the gut-wrenching track "Run" that has fans – and gossip columnists – buzzing.
Written entirely by Lambert herself, "Run" is a poignant confession of a love destined to crumble.
“I was gonna run,” she sings, her voice filled with a mix of regret and steely resolve. “And you took too long to see I was unhappy."
Ouch.
The lyrics are so raw, so emotionally charged, that it's hard to believe they’ve been gathering dust for a decade.
“I wasn’t ever ready to perform it until now,” Lambert admitted in an interview. “At the time it might not be funny or at the time it might feel too raw, but then it can come back around.”
Now, for the part you've all been waiting for – the Blake Shelton connection. Lambert penned “Run” around the same time her very public, very messy divorce from the fellow country superstar was making headlines. Coincidence?
Don't bet on it.
When pressed by interviewers about whether “Run” was inspired by her marriage to Shelton, Lambert expertly dodged the question.
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