Saving it for a rainy day, so to speak. Miranda Lambert was of course very early to the double album trend in country music, as back in 2016, she released her “divorce album,” The Weight of These Wings. Her sixth studio album was instantly labeled a “divorce album” when it was announced, because it immediately followed her extremely public divorce from Blake Shelton in 2015. The two records, appropriately labeled The Nerve and The Heart, dive deep into her feelings about not only her divorce, but life at the time and everything else she had going on while trying to come to the realization that her marriage simply didn’t work out. There was also a few songs navigating her budding new romance to fellow singer, Anderson East, at the time. Though you’d be hard pressed to find any sort of press or media with Miranda even talking about the record at the time, and there’s a damn good reason for it. Immediately upon the release of an album, most artists do a media circuit full of interviews, podcasts, tours, and more to promote the project they’ve just put out. And that started out no differently for Miranda… But she hung up on someone during the first interview, and that was a wrap in terms of press: “‘First question was, ‘How do you feel about Gwen?’ I hung up. I told Marion [her manager], I just can’t do this.” Pretty much all we have from that era in terms of her feelings on the divorce and reality of her life then is the music, which I actually like. It made the songs that much more powerful, and The Weight of These Wings debuted at #1 on the U.S. Billboard Country Albums chart, and also won Album of the Year at the 2017 ACM Awards, which was Lambert’s fifth consecutive album to win the award, a record for any artist. While most of the songs were gut-wrenching, authentic pictures of heartbreak and sadness (“Tin Man” and “Vice” come to mind right away), there was one she couldn’t find it in herself to put out to the world yet, and that’s a song called “Run,” which she just released last year on her Postcards From Texas record. The only song she wrote solo, the Texas native wears her heart on her sleeve, admitting that she was always going to leave the relationship, and while her man should’ve realized she was unhappy sooner, it ultimately wouldn’t have mattered: “Well, it wasn’t that you didn’t have the answers There was just no question in my mind I was gonna run And you took too long to see I was unhappy And I took too long to tell you that I was gonna run I was gonna run” And in a post on TikTok, she admitted that she was “never ready” to release it for the past ten years, because it was somehow even more vulnerable than everything on Wings… if you read between the lines, it’s likely that “Run” was the one where she poured her heart out the most, getting the most candid about their reasons for divorce, which people have speculated about for a decade now: “I wrote this song ‘Run’ during ‘The Weight of These Wings’ era. At the same time as songs like ‘Tin Man’ and ‘Vice.’ But wasn’t ready to release it till now.” Personally, I’m just glad she finally feels comfortable enough to let us hear it, because it’s easily my favorite song on Postcards. It’s not hard to understand why she maybe held this one back, though I think it’s something a lot us women, especially, can relate to. The other day, Miranda released a music video for it, and it’s her current single at country radio… which I’m here for, and can only hope it actually gets some real air time (you know some of the best songs go to die at country radio). She poured her heart out, and the best songs are truly timeless, or moreover, just get better with age. This song could be released in ten more years and it would still be truly great. Check it out: “Run” The post Miranda Lambert Says She Wasn’t Ready To Release “Run” Until Now, Which She Wrote For Her 2016 Divorce Album ‘The Weight Of These Wings’ first appeared on Whiskey Riff.