You've Ruined Me

Album: Spitfire (2013)
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Songfacts®:

  • LeAnn wrote this song for her husband Eddie Cibrian. The singer told Entertainment Tonight that she understands that the title doesn't make it sound like a conventional love song, but the lyrics were her way of explaining that she doesn't think she would ever find another man to love as much as she does Eddie. "You meet someone that all those things you would love to have in a relationship - it's there," LeAnn explained. "There's great relationships but there's maybe something missing. When you find that one relationship, it's just intense."
  • Despite being married to other people, Rimes and Cibrian struck up a romance while they made the 2009 TV movie Northern Lights, and the tabloids couldn't get enough of the scandal, especially after Cibrian's wife, Brandi Glanville, confirmed the rumors and announced she had kicked the actor out of their home. Rimes, who had been married to dancer Dean Sheremet since 2002, got divorced in 2010 and wed Cibrian the following year.

    The media circus surrounding their relationship fueled Spitfire, which finds the singer telling her side of the story. "My life is one very large country song," she told The New York Times. "What I've lived in the last four years is country music at its finest."
  • Rimes wrote this with her frequent songwriting partner Darrell Brown and John Shanks, a songwriter/producer who has worked with Melissa Etheridge, Kelly Clarkson, the Goo Goo Dolls, and Sheryl Crow, among others.
  • Brown, who also co-produced the album with Rimes, explained their vision for the album. "We looked at the songs as if it were a shooting script for a film," he told The New York Times. "We knew the story we wanted to tell - her emotional and spiritual journey of the last few years, and where it led her as a woman.

    LeAnn isn't one to shy away from anything that's honest. I believe there's no turning back for her now. That beautifully brave place she has always sung from is now the place she writes from."

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