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I let it fall, my heart
And as it fell you rose to claim it
It was dark and I was over
Until you kissed my lips and you saved me
My hands, they're strong
But my knees were far too weak
To stand in your arms
Without falling to your feet
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 play
You would always win, always win
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!
When I lay with you
I could stay there
Close my eyes
Feel you here forever
You and me together
Nothing is better
'Cause 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 play
You would always win, always win
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 set fire to the rain
And I threw us into the flames
Where it felt something die
'Cause I knew that that was the last time, the last time
Sometimes I wake up by the door
That heart you caught must be waiting for you
Even now when we're already over
I can't help myself from looking for you
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 set fire to the rain
And I threw us into the flames
Where it felt something die
'Cause I knew that that was the last time, the last time, oh, oh
Oh no
Let it burn
Oh oh oh
Let it burn
Oh oh oh
Let it burn
Oh oh oh
And as it fell you rose to claim it
It was dark and I was over
Until you kissed my lips and you saved me
My hands, they're strong
But my knees were far too weak
To stand in your arms
Without falling to your feet
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 play
You would always win, always win
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!
When I lay with you
I could stay there
Close my eyes
Feel you here forever
You and me together
Nothing is better
'Cause 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 play
You would always win, always win
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 set fire to the rain
And I threw us into the flames
Where it felt something die
'Cause I knew that that was the last time, the last time
Sometimes I wake up by the door
That heart you caught must be waiting for you
Even now when we're already over
I can't help myself from looking for you
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 set fire to the rain
And I threw us into the flames
Where it felt something die
'Cause I knew that that was the last time, the last time, oh, oh
Oh no
Let it burn
Oh oh oh
Let it burn
Oh oh oh
Let it burn
Oh oh oh
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Track duration: 03:35
"Set Fire to the Rain" as written by Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, Fraser Lance Thorneycroft Smith
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, CHRYSALIS MUSIC GROUP
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I was alone and dark and you saved me from the pain (1st paragraph as posted)
I didn't want you and I wasn't supposed to Love you but I Loved you anyway when you wanted me (2nd verse as posted)
Then you lied to everyone and said everything wrong and it made no sense and WTF. (3rd paragraph first two lines as posted)
And you lied to everyone else as well for no reason to say stupid things about me and lied to everyone and everything (3rd paragraph first 5 lines as posted)
But everyone you know believed you (3rd paragraph last line as posted)
The impossible thing of Loving you when I was not supposed to and set myself on fire in the literal, torturous/painful meaning (But I set fire to the rain)
And the rain is the tears and they will never stop (Watched it pour as I touched your face)
I found out you are horrible but I still want you and Love you ('Cause I heard it screaming out your name, your name!)
Next paragraph is obvious and does not / can not be interpreted
I killed it somehow I should have done something else even tough it was your fault from #2 (And I threw us into the flames)
Now I see what you are and you have decided not to Love me but without cause (Where it felt something die)
And there will be no more times and no more trust when you were the last trust (Set fire to the rain) and the only guaranteed trust (Set fire to the rain) and there are no more people and there is no more possible and it also won't because after the last line of "when I felt something die" I will kill myself so there is no more ('Cause I knew that that was the last time, the last time)
And the last paragraph is obvious and does not need to be interpreted after you read the rest of my own meaning and when she says "Let it burn" over and over at the end (or at least that's what this post says) that will be the burning of a life.
And as it fell you rose to claim it
It was dark and I was over
Until you kissed my lips and you saved me.
1) She had already given up this love
And yet in the process, he came back
She was sad, destroyed
Until he rescued her with a kiss
He gave her hope.
My hands, they're strong
But my knees were far too weak
To stand in your arms
Without falling to your feet.
2) She was very much in love to esist him
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 play
You would always win, always win.
3) When she discovered that he was a liar and played with her feelings
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
4) She gave up that feeling, while caressing his face.
She was crying while taking this painful decision
Because the mind had decided, but her heart still
screamed his name. That was the battle between
the heart and the mind
I set fire to the rain
And I threw us into the flames
Well, it felt something died
'Cause I knew that that was
The last time, the last time
5) She does the impossible
And throws their story in flames (giving up)
She feels the hope dieing. This is a resignation.
Because she knew it was the end
Sometimes I wake up by the door,
That heart you caught must be waiting for you
Even now when we're already over
I can't help myself from looking for you.
6) Sometimes she catches herself by the door.
Because her heart might still be waiting for him.
As if it wasn't in tune with her mind.
Although they are not together anymore
She can't stop missing him.
Fire destroys and rain washes things away "Let it burn"
It's too easy for her to fall for him so she has to let it burn away everything of the two of them in order to preserve herself. But her heart was still screaming out his name... she still wishes that she could have him, she still loves him even... but there were too many lies and games so rather than letting him keep hurting her over and over she just let herself feel all of the pain until it was more than she could bear (well I felt something die... I knew that this was the last time...)