6. "Please forgive me for my sins, yes, I swam dirty waters, but you pushed me in" ("I'll Be Waiting," 21)
Here Adele both asks for forgiveness and assigns blame to her lover. Confuse them, they love it. That's the lesson we got from this one.
7. "I heard that you're settled down, that you found a girl, and you're married now" ("Someone Like You," 21)
If your heart doesn't sink for Adele every time this song comes on then go see a doctor because you're missing your sensitivity chip.
(Kidding, but we're passionate about passion, OK?)
8. "Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavements / even if it leads nowhere?" ("Chasing Pavements, 19)
She made unrequited love—and following your wildest dreams in general—sound like a most noble pursuit.
9. "And if I'm not the one for you / You've gotta stop holding me the way you do / Why if I'm not the one for you? / Why have we been through what we have been through" ("Water Under the Bridge, 25)
That moment when you're stuck between wanting to be with a person and questioning whether you could even have a future with them. Ugh, THE FEELS.
10. "I could make you happy, make your dreams come true / Nothing that I wouldn't do, go to the ends of the earth for you / To make you feel my love" ("Make You Feel My Love," 19)
When you have that one special person, be it lover, family, or friend, Adele encouraged you to treat then right and make them happy when she added her spin to the Bob Dylan classic.
And we couldn't decide which cover made us weepier, so we are giving an honorary mention to:
10.5 "However far away, I will always love you" (Because if that isn't The Cure for everything, we don't know what is.)
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