Lambert's highly acclaimed 2016 album, The Weight of These Wings (you didn't miss the bird reference, did you?) was about the heartache she struggled to survive in the wake of her high profile divorce from Blake Shelton. Her newest album Wild Card (which includes "Bluebird") is a story of hard-won, and rediscovered happiness (via Rolling Stone). Let's be real for a second. When Lambert gets to the part in "Bluebird" where she sings, "And if love keeps giving me lemons / I'll just mix 'em in my drink," we know exactly who she's talking about.
Although relatable, Lambert's "Bluebird" is the story of her own personal journey to hope. According to what Lambert later told The Boot, the origin story for her hit song surrounds a text that co-writer Luke Dick wrote to Lambert. It said "something about keeping a bluebird in your heart," Lambert remembered. Dick further told her, "I wanna write that with you, because I feel like that's what you did. And it's what I feel like we all do." Case in point? Miranda Lambert walked into the room that she wrote co-wrote "Bluebird" in with Luke Dick and Natalie Hemby just three days after she'd been secretly married to her current husband, NYPD cop Brandan McLoughlin (via Taste of Country). She wrote it, in other words, having recently reclaimed love.
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