The country musician rides around on her horse Cool in the desert-set video for the single from Postcards From Texas
Miranda Lambert is as free as ever in the music video for her latest single, “Run,” which appeared on her recent studio album Postcards From Texas. The video was filmed a few hundred miles away from Texas in Gold Canyon, Arizona, but nonetheless carried a sense of familiarity for the country musician.
In the clip, Lambert rides through the desert at Don Donnelly’s D Spur Ranch & Riding Stables on the back of her horse, Cool. “There is always a sense of freedom when you’re on the back of a horse with the wind in your hair, so it felt really significant to have Cool with me in this video,” Lambert shared. “I love horses because they’re a way to run to something – or away if you need to. I started riding when I turned 30 and wanted to try more things that scared me.”
At a point in time, Lambert was hesitant to embrace “Run. “I wasn’t ever ready to perform it until now,” Lambert said on Today’s Country Radio. “That’s what songs are for, and you may not be ready at that one time to sing about something really raw… but then it can come back around. [It’s] an admission of human error too… It’s an apology, but it’s also a resolve.”
The singer found a passion in horses and mounted shooting, using it as a way to “chase that feeling of being bravely true to yourself.” With “Run,” she accomplished a near-identical feat. “Oh this freedom I found babe sure wasn’t free/I owe you a lifetime of apologies,” she sings towards the end of the song. “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/Oh, I always was gonna run.”