Set Fire to the Rain: Adele

The song "Set Fire to the Rain" by Adele is an extremely emotional song and Adele sings it with such passion. This song is mostly about the hardships people go through in life and what she has gone through personally and getting through it.

In the beginning of the song, it seems as if she has just ended a relationship with someone she loved dearly. She is torn from that relationship and is in pieces shown in the line "I let it fall, my heart" and "It was dark and I was over".

She then comments on how this new relationship helped her pull herself together because in this line she says, "And as it fell, you rose to claim it"... "Until you kissed my lips and you saved me". She emphasizes how much influence this new relationship had on her and maybe how she didn't recognize her weaknesses in the new relationship by saying, "My hands, they were strong, but my knees were far too weak ... To stand in your arms without falling to your feet".  

The rest of the song is exploring this second partner and how she ended the second relationship.
It's obvious that this partner is two-sided, deceitful and manipulative because she says "But there's a side to you that I never knew, never knew... All the things you'd say, they were never true, never true... And the games you'd play, you would always win, always win".

Adele uses a very deep metaphor to describe how she ends the relationship when she says "But I set fire to the rain... Watched it pour as I touched your face... Well, it burned while I cried... 'Cause I heard it screaming out your name, your name." I think there are some basic things that she is trying to say. By "setting fire to the rain", I believe Adele is saying that had the courage to confront a situation that was draining her. I think she goes on to say that she was left hurt and deeply moved because she says "it burned while I cried" by the situation because all she could focus on was still her partner, "Cause I heard it screaming out your name".

She continues to explain the relationship by saying, "When laying with you I could stay there / Close my eyes, feel you here forever / You and me together, nothing is better". So emphasizing how much faith she had in this partner. 

She just keeps going on about her relationships with this guy and how it keeps burning and all these things. Obviously she has felt a big connection to these relationships to have written a song so passionate  and emotional about them.