"Party of One" was the first song she played him, and it was an emotional one at that. "[It] came out so easy, and I finally felt unblocked," she writes of the track. ", Simpson ends the question track by crooning, "There's no amount of prayin' / There's no amount of will / There's nothin' gonna keep me / From climbing up the hill / Sweet temptation / Are you leading me home. Until then, keep reading for a song-by-song breakdown of her new music. "I just didn't know it until the words came out of me.". "I could put words to feelings again and make them mean something for other people.". ", Featuring her good friend, Willie Nelson, Simpson writes that she wrote the track alongside "producer John Shanks after pouring my heart out to him about what my friendship with Willie has meant to me.". "The music is actually everything that inspired me to get sober and write the book," she said. ", "Songwriting takes me to an honest place, and honestly, I was in a dark place," she adds in the book. Jessica Simpson's new music is ... "Practice What You Preach" Simpson describes this track as a "direct hit at" her father, one she wrote because "his … After Simpson fired her dad, Joe, as her manager in 2012, she held off on playing him any new music until October 2017. "You can lose your ground / You can lose the fight / When you're on that older road / Drinkin' down the moonshine at night / I'll be on your side. ", "I watched his face as he listened, eyes closed.

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I thought. ", "I got your back / I'll be your one true friend / You know you're stuck with me / Until the beautiful end," Nelson sings on his verse. "May your actions speak louder than words / Give them hell / As hard as it hurts / 'Cause that's what I learned from you / So take it from me / Practice what you preach". The hit song spent three weeks at number-one on the US R&B chart and reached 18 on the pop chart. The #1 New York Times Bestseller

Includes six new songs by Jessica Simpson, available exclusively in the Open Book audiobook.


Performed by the author featuring her music throughout.


Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles. He didn't. Jessica Simpson's Substance Abuse Struggles: Details From Her Revealing Memoir. Tune in to Tuesday's episode of Entertainment Tonight for our full interview with Simpson. He nodded, started crying, which got me crying. I was standing in judgment of someone who I felt had compromised his values," she continues. The singer describes one song, "Practice What You Preach," as "a direct hit" at her dad. "I love you / Breathe in you / I know that I will die with you / It's time that I  look in the mirror / Straight in my eyes / Tell myself I'm not broken / Just 'cause I cry / It's a love song / Party of one / I'm not weak 'cause I don't want to fight.

"Maybe that means I'm doing nothin' / Maybe that makes me more alive / The angel on my shoulder sittin' on the devil's side," she continues.

"Now I only dream in colors / When I lived in black and white / You grow up fast when you're a mother / You stand strong when you're a wife," she sings. "Because I realized when I was going down into my studio, even though I was in the comfort of my house, I had to drink to numb the pain that I was about to experience to write. But I had kept that from him," she writes. She and her husband, Eric Johnson, tied the knot in 2014 following her 2006 divorce from Nick Lachey. "I hate you / Lie to you / Sometimes I don't give a damn / A damn about you," she sings.

The duet is a testament to Simpson and Nelson's friendship, with Simpson belting, "If you were caught behind those bars / I'd find you in the dark / I feel the lightening every time that you walk by / 'Cause I love your name / Yeah it still gets me high / I'll dance through the fire and you can play it cool / I will be your fool.

", "I could leave if I want to / These walls are made of stone / But they don't hold me," Simpson continues. " "So I don't want nobody else / No I don't want nobody else. "She had stars on her ceiling, and I always told her I'd lasso them down for her," she writes. What have I done? Like us on Facebook to see similar stories, US sets refugee cap at 15K, a new historic low, The National Restaurant Association Is Hosting Free Seminars To Teach Hospitality Workers How To Deal With Anti-Maskers. "Practice What You Preach" is the title of a number-one R&B single by singer Barry White, written by Barry White, Gerald Levert, Edwin Nicholas, from White's 1994 album The Icon Is Love.

Throughout the upbeat, empowering song, Simpson celebrates living her life happily after the pain of her past. On the track, Simpson wrestles with her conflicting feelings for her dad and how they had made her question herself. ", The sweet track ends with the pair singing together, "I'll give you all my heart / 'Cause that's what real friends do / There's nothin' you can say or do / To make me stop lovin' you / Yeah I will be your fool.". Jessica Simpson Practice What You Preach -Open Book - YouTube ", On the emotional track, Simpson sings, "You taught me how to love somebody / Just like you / You taught me how to leave somebody / And it's hard to do / You said keep my s**t together when the world unravels / And put a brave face on in the heat of the battle / So that's what I did", "Go and pick up your head / Even if the higher ground is the place you've forgotten," she croons later on the song. You grow up fast when you're a mother You stand strong when you're a wife I made friends with the past, I'm not ashamed Let all the tears roll down my face Wouldn't know all this beauty without thanking my pain Now I'm feeling the blood run through my veins Deep in my lungs, I'm breathing again Forgiving myself, now this time I finally "And now I needed him to hear that I was singing about him. In conjunction with the release of her memoir, Open Book, and its accompanying audio book, the 39-year-old singer also dropped six songs, her first new music in nearly a decade. I know he knew that because that's what he had taught me. Jessica Simpson not only released her very telling memoir, Open Book, on Tuesday, February 4, she also dropped six new emotional … "I know it's bad for my health / I am somebody / Just stuck in this body / Finally I don't wanna leave / So hey it's nice to meet ya / Every time I see ya / You're not a stranger to me. ", Simpson describes this track as a "direct hit at" her father, one she wrote because "his choice to leave my mother was like a bomb going off in my life, and I still found myself clinging to whatever I could hold on to. Jessica Simpson Drops Six New Songs: Inside Her New Music. The guitar-backed, mid-tempo track features Simpson singing about making a choice to stay in a relationship. "[It's] about how abandoned I'd felt by him and my mother choosing the very moment I needed them most, becoming a mother, to go off and start their new lives," she writes in her memoir, referencing her dad's decision to tell her that he was divorcing her mother, Tina, while she was in the hospital pregnant. "Back in my mind I've always known / If I turn around I walk alone / If it makes me better maybe that's the road that leads me home.". When ET recently caught up with Simpson, she opened up about how making her new music was a cathartic experience amid her struggles with alcohol. "Standing in the middle of a broken road / I've been searching for an answer," she sings.