Set Fire To The Rain!

We all know who Adele is. We seemed to get the idea that her heart has been played, crushed and broken with her very famous songs speaking about heartbreak which we all find very enticing. I personally, LOVE her songs! They are very heartwarming and humanly. She just has this power to grip your emotions. 

Lately I have found a special interest with her "Set Fire to the Rain" song, it simply seized my attention. How simple the lyrics are yet it entails something bizarre. I was charmed by how she played with words to compose a beautiful song.

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So I came up with my own understanding though I will never know what it really means for Adele, but I still believe that what she is aiming here is to have a connection with people through her music.

Here goes:

                           A woman deeply in love with this man whom she has a relationship with. For a time, she was satisfied with their relationship, having this strong emotion of not wanting more because there is nothing better than spending her life with this man. Clearly he was enough for her until such time that she realizes that this man is not the man she used to be with, this man is showing his true self, a controlling and dishonest man. The actuality came to her that she can never love this man without hurting and losing herself. This is where "Set Fire to the Rain" comes, she is setting FIRE (her anguish) to the RAIN to end it, to extinguish it, to finally let go. And knowing how painful and difficult it is to stop holding on to the love that you think will last and to the man that you think you knew, even with its conclusion her heart still yearns for him. In the end, she chose herself and her being, finally putting a stop to the madness.

THE END... 

it's the thought that counts :D

Walking down the street

Staring up the sky

Wondering how everything just went by

Being born in this world

Eagerly learning how to talk

Falling step by step as we try to walk

 

Time flies as they say

Growing fast and free

Doing everything to become who we dream  to be

Dreams and plans emerge

Oh how our mind works

Luckily, sometimes life offers us perks

People come and go

But a few remain

And being with them always keeps us sane

And now I thought

Hey what have I done?
Will I be ready once it’s time to be gone?

Have I lived fully?

Have I been good?

To the majority, have I been rude?

Walking down the street

Staring up the sky

Asking myself questions, like why oh why?

Walking down the street

Admiring the view

Oh darn! I forgot the errand I was supposed to do!

THEN and NOW

When you look at me
There’s just love I see
When you hold me
I can only feel how happy we can be

When we are together
There’s hope for forever
When we are apart
I just don’t know where to start

Suddenly, we are in a new direction
Unexpectedly I can’t sense your affection
Love, may I ask why?
Your hello became goodbye

When you look at me
There’s nothing there to see
When you hold me
I can only feel how cold you can be

When we are together
There’s dread for forever
When we are apart
I just know now I should begin my fresh start

STRANGERS, we are

You walked into my life

A stranger

You filled my thoughts

Like a good charmer

You lived in my heart

My almost lover

I am too deep

Somehow I cannot emerge

Though someone owns your heart

My love was not purged

We remained hidden
Still it did not lead me to the verge

I was waiting and hoping

Very willing to wait

So make up your mind and heart

Before it’s too late

Do you love her still?

Shall we leave it all to fate?

But as time passed by

You just let things be

My sadness, my tears

You can’t even see

I have laid it all out for you

Make a move or lose me

You remained speechless

That’s hard to bear

I can’t wait forever

So I’ll end this I swear

Say goodbye to you

Like I don’t even care

I walked out of your life

But hey I have tried

Went too far by dreaming

That I can be your bride

But now we are mere strangers

On my way to our end I shall ride

Temporary Madness

Love came.  It was not unexpected. In all honesty I saw it coming, fast and unstoppable. I kept on denying it, trying to convince myself that I can never feel this much attention for a man who is not man enough or me. For a man whose heart was never mine. But as time went by, reasons failed me, and my heart conquered my mind leaving me defenseless and doomed. I can no longer contradict my feelings, thus, acceptance became reasonable I persuaded myself that once I accepted this truth it will be easier for me to just let it go in the right time, given the complexities of our relationship. I fell in love with a man who has someone in his life, and though he told me that he cannot be sure of his love for her, the fact remains that they are together and I am the special someone who will always want to be the one.

For months we have been more than friends but less than lovers. Yes to fun, discovery and excitement but no expectation, demand and commitment. I knew that! I darn well knew that! Still, I went on. Yes, I settled for less than nothing. I did that. Love did that!

I have said goodbye so many times but I was not able to let go. I made promises to myself but I end up breaking them. How can it feels so right whenever I am with him? Why is it so wrong to be together? What we have is a perfect combination of happiness and hurt, beauty and madness, connection and distance, simplicity and complication, excitement and exhaustion, fate and hopelessness and love and friendship. It is everything but normal.

 I have tried finding reasons to just stop holding on. I demanded an answer. The truth! What do we really mean to each other? Still, the question remained unanswered, displaying his immaturity and passiveness. And so, I weave my own answer, to end this madness! I thought that if I wanted to be right, now is always the right time. I just need to decide even if it means goodbye. Maybe he already gave his heart away, but not to me. And so, I decided to be right, in order to stop the wrong, to conclude what we have and who we are for each other. I refuse to go on this way.

I know I deserve better. And I cannot disagree with my heart and mind, when so rarely they are in harmony, that maybe there will be us or maybe there won’t be, but there will be someone, there will be!