Watch: Miranda Lambert Opens Up About Life After Her Divorce

Miranda Lambert reveals her truth through lyrics.

Her most recent album, “The Weight of These Wings,” is a perfect example of how the singer telling her story in the most genuine way.

Before beginning her “Highway Vagabond Tour,” Lambert rehearsed her music at Joe’s Bar in Chicago to a smaller audience.

She opened up about what life was like for her following her divorce to Blake Shelton. “I got divorced so I started drinking a little extra,” she told the crowd before she sang “Ugly Lights” that she wrote alongside Natalie Hemby and Liz Rose. “Anyway I found myself in Midtown in Nashville three nights in a row at like last call and with the lights coming on, and I’d be sitting there. So I wrote a song about it. I wrote it with Natalie [Hemby]. I really didn’t finish it, so I guess I will finish it for the next record. It goes like this.”

This article first appeared on Womanista.com