Though the song has already been around for more than 15 years, Lambert says she never felt 'damaged enough' to sing it before her divorce from Blake Shelton last year.
- Jan 22, 2016
AceShowbiz - Miranda Lambert debuted a new song when she played an unplugged show at Nashville's City Winery on Wednesday night, January 20. The track titled "Scars" was actually written by her longtime guitarist and collaborator Scotty Wray years ago, but after her rough 2015 that included her divorce from Blake Shelton, she's finally ready to perform it that night.
"This song is... Oh god, I hope I don't cry when I sing it," she told the crowd when introducing the song alongside Wray who sat with his guitar next to her. "[Wray] wrote this song 16 years ago, the year before I met him, and I have been in love with it for that long."
She went on explaining why she never recorded the song before. "I was never damaged enough to sing a song called 'Scars'," she said. "It's something you have to sell and really feel and really live and go through s**t, basically, to execute a song like that."
Lambert then launched into the emotional ballad, which tells the story of the pain someone feels and the lesson learned after a break-up. "Pain that I remember is the pain that makes me stronger/ I've had to look at life that way/ I've learned to rise above it/ To keep from going under/ Well, I take it step by step and day by day," she sang over Wray's acoustic guitar licks.
Lambert noted at one point that she might record the tune for her upcoming album. She dropped her latest full-length, "Platinum", in 2014.
