MIRANDA’S COME OUT ON TOP

After performing to sold-out crowds on the U.S. leg of her Highway Vagabond Tour from January through early August, Miranda recently embarked on a threemonth international run taking her to Europe and Canada.

with Gwen,” notes the friend. “That’s something that will scar her forever. She was mortified when he began parading Gwen around, practically in front of her face.”

Miranda poured her hurt into her journals, “which helped her to heal and move on with her life,” says the friend. But even though she’s recovered, finding love again with alt- country rocker Anderson East, 29, “It still burns her to hear about Blake and Gwen all the time,” the friend explains. There’s a whole lot more material in her journals, ready to be tapped for new music. “I’m sure there will be upcoming songs inspired by Gwen, about how she and Miranda are complete opposites, or how Miranda feels she was left for a different ‘ model,’ ” adds the friend. “She’ll end up singing about how it felt like she’d been left for another woman and for bigger-than-life-fame.”

THE SHOCKING LYRICS

Miranda’s already revealed a lot. The songs on The Weight of These Wings, she says, cover the “good, bad, ugly and everything in between.” “The thought of loving you just makes me sick,” she sings on “Use My Heart,” which the friend says is about Blake. In “Tin Man,” she calls out a lover ( Blake again, confirms the friend) for being heartless: “You don’t know how lucky you are.… If you ever felt one breaking / You’d never want a heart.” “Somebody once broke me,” she admits, bluntly, on “Things That Break.”

She’s also confessed that their split drove her to booze, which inspired still more confessions. “I got divorced, so I started drinking a little extra,” she told the crowd during her Jan. 24 Chicago concert. “I found myself in midtown in Nashville three nights in a row at last call, lights are coming on, and I’m still sitting there. So I wrote a song about it.” The lyrics to that song, “Ugly Lights” — “I wear my sadness like a souvenir / I drink too much to fall apart / That’s how I fight this broken heart” — “are Miranda showing Blake the soul-killing, human cost of divorce,” the friend notes.

It felt so good to open up the first time, Miranda is eager to continue her catharsis. The friend believes she could even write a tell-all book someday. “But right now, she’s getting even with Blake for all the pain and heartbreak in the best way she knows how: with her music,” the friend says. “She’s transferred her pain to her lyrics and gets more honest and truthful about one of the nastiest breakups in music history with each passing day. Her union and split will be fodder for her songwriting for years to come.”

“I just said, ‘I’m gonna journal it, and — good days and bad days — use it for my art.” Miranda, on turning her feelings into music