Thursday, April 14, 2011

Breaking down "Rolling in the Deep" by Adele

There's a fire starting in my heart, (hurt is entering my heart)
Reaching a fever pitch and it's bringing me out the dark. (Reaching intense agitation, and its revealing something to me)
Finally I can see you crystal clear (I see the real person that you are)
Go ahead and sell me out and I'll
lay your ship bare.  (Go ahead and do me wrong, and I’ll take away all that you have and leave you without any love, leave you with what you started with)
See how I'll leave, with every piece of you (see how ill break your heart and have you missing me)
don’t underestimate the things that I will do. (Don’t doubt that I will have an effect on you)
The scars of your love, they leave me breathless (the hurt inside your heart, makes me second guess about trusting you, I’m always on guard and always hold back from you) I can't help feeling 
We could of had it all (I always thought I could fix you and make “us” work)
Rolling in the deep (diving deep into love)
You had my heart inside your hand (you had all of my love and the control over my heart)
And you played it to the beat (and u did like you always do, you stayed harsh and your heart stayed callused, not letting me in)

                 The main idea of the song “Rolling in the Deep” by Adele is that a woman and man are or were in a relationship and how the woman is wishing and hoping that their relationship could have lasted through their hardships. But Adele addresses the man’s mindset of love many times by identifying it with “scars of love”.  This phrase refers to the hardships that the man has had in his past relationships with other people. And she says at different parts of the song that they (the scars of love) remind her of them and that they leave her breathless. The scars of love remind her of them, possibly because the same internal problems that he has, came up in their relationship. And when she said “the scars of your love, leave me breathless” it made me think that either his past hurt  that made the guy so callused with his feelings, made the woman not want to put her all in the relationship and always kept her holding back from him.  “Breathless” makes me think of a person not being able to relax and there is so much tension inside of them.  
                In the beginning of the song, the mood of the poem is a lot stand-off ish and threatening. She seems a lot less vulnerable at the start of this song.  The woman actually threatens the man when she says “See how I'll leave, with every piece of you, don’t underestimate the things that I will do.”She saying right there that even if you break up with me, ill take all of you with me so do not doubt your feelings for me either.