Continuing my ranking of the songs on Miranda Lambert’s new album, Postcards from Texas…
#10. ‘Dammit Randy’
This song is an indictment of a former lover who never appreciated the singer until she was out of his life. Lambert isn’t exactly Taylor Swift, but this album seems to be pulled from her personal life more than most. I suspect her “Randy” is either Anderson East or Evan Felker, the two men she dated between her divorce from Blake Shelton and meeting her current husband.
#9. ‘Santa Fe’
One of two songs early on Postcards from Texas that look wistfully back on old relationships. This one is a duet with young Texas musician Parker McCollum. Given the album’s title, the fact that it was recorded in Austin, and Lambert’s description of it as an ode to her home state, I’m assuming this song is referencing not the New Mexico city but the small Texas town that shares its name.
We were standin’ there, in that desert air
Starin’ at the sunset, the little bit that we had left
We just met days before, leavin’ left us wantin’ more
Man, it felt like somethin’, maybe it was nothin’ but
[Chorus]
Santa Fe
Every year, September, I come back this way
Hangin’ on a memory that won’t ever fade
It lit a fire in me, are you burnin’ too?
All the way in Tennessee, is it callin’ you?
Somethin’ in thе fall, we may not get it back
We’ll always havе Santa Fe
[Verse 2]
Now, I’m just wanderin’ ’round this empty turquoise town
Spanish guitar playin’
Without you ain’t the same out here in
[Chorus]
Santa Fe
Every year, September, I come back this way
Hangin’ on a memory that won’t ever fade
It lit a fire in me, are you burnin’ too?
All the way in Tennessee, is it callin’ you?
Somethin’ in the fall, we may not get it back
We’ll always have Santa Fe
[Instrumental Break]
[Chorus]
Are you burnin’ too?
All the way in Tennessee, is it callin’ you?
Somethin’ in the fall, we may not get it back
We’ll always have Santa Fe
Mm, Santa Fe
Meet Me In Montauk 
While your logic as to which Santa Fe she is singing about makes sense, the line about the desert suggests she is talking about the more known city in New Mexico. Apparently, Santa Fe Texas is not in a desert, while Santa Fe NM is.