Miranda Lambert Shares Why She Waited Years To Release Heartache Ballad

By Kelly Fisher

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Miranda Lambert addressed why she waited about a decade to release a song she wrote on her latest studio album, Postcards from Texas.

Lambert is the sole songwriter on “Run,” one of 14 tracks that appears on the record that arrived on Friday (September 13). She spoke about the ballad’s meaning when she took the stage for an album release show at Casa Rosa, her bar and live music venue along the famous stretch of Lower Broadway honky tonks in Downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Lambert shared with the audience that “Run” is “from 2015. It’s old, and I’ve been kind of saving it. It didn’t really have a place. And I don’t know if I was actually ready, if I’m being honest, to sing it before now.”

“Oh, this freedom I found, baby, sure wasn't free/ I owe you a lifetime of apologies/ I’m tellin' the truth now, I loved you so much/ I’m sorry for lyin' about who I was/ I was gonna run/ I was gonna run”

Lambert shares songwriting credits on other tracks with her husband, former New York police officer Brendan McLoughlin, and other previous collaborators, including The Marfa Tapes collaborators Jon Randall and Jack Ingram, Jesse Frasure, and others. She included one duet on the album with fellow Texan, Parker McCollum. Postcards from Texas also includes “Dammit Randy,” “Wranglers,” “Alimony,” “No Man’s Land” and more. Listen to “Run” below.

  1. “Armadillo” (Aaron Raitiere, Jon Decious, Parker Twomey)
  2. “Dammit Randy” (Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall, Brendan McLoughlin)
  3. “Looking Back On Luckenbach” (Miranda Lambert, Shane McAnally, Natalie Hemby)
  4. “Santa Fe” featuring Parker McCollum (Miranda Lambert, Jesse Frasure, Jessie Jo Dillon, Dean Dillon)
  5. “January Heart” (Neil Medley, Brent Cobb)
  6. “Wranglers” (Audra Mae, Evan McKeever, Ryan Carpenter)
  7. “Run” (Miranda Lambert)
  8. “Alimony” (Miranda Lambert, Natalie Hemby, Shane McAnally)
  9. “I Hate Love Songs” (MIranda Lambert, Jon Randall, Jack Ingram)
  10. “No Man’s Land” (Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick)
  11. “B**** On The Sauce (Just Drunk)” (Miranda Lambert, Jaren Johnston)
  12. “Way Too Good At Breaking My Heart” (Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall, Jesse Frasure, Jenee Fleenor)
  13. “Wildfire” (Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall, Jack Ingram)
  14. “Living On The Run” (David Allan Coe, Jimmy Lewis Howard)
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