18 Emotional Adele Lyrics to Prepare You for 25

Grab all the tissues before reading

By Julia Hays Nov 17, 2015 6:22 PMTags
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We are emotionally preparing ourselves for the release of Adele's new album, 25, which arrives Friday.

We've already been treated to "Hello" and "When We Were Young" in advance of her third album dropping.

Thank you, Adele, for understanding our hearts can only take so much at once.

In order to get ready for what is sure to be a weekend of self-reflection, as we listen, cry, sing, cry, soul search, and cry, we would like to look at some of the Adele lyrics that have helped make us the strong humans that we are today.

To make it through 25, these are the Adele lyrics that have already gotten us this far. If we can handle these, we can make it through anything.

1. "Why is it every time I think I've tried my hardest / It turns out it ain't enough?" (From "Best For Last")

2. "Though I'm trying my hardest you go back to her/ And I think that I know things may never change" (From "Best For Last")

3. "Should I give up? / Or should I just keep chasin' pavements / Even if it leads nowhere?" (From "Chasing Pavements")

4. "You grace me with your cold shoulder / Whenever you look at me I wish I was her" (From "Cold Shoulder")

5. "Whenever I'm standing my own ground / You build me up, then leave me dead" (From "Melt My Heart To Stone")

6. "Forgive me first love, but I'm tired / I need to get away to feel again" (From "First Love")

7. "We won't be making up / I've cried my heart out / And now I've had enough of love" (From "Right As Rain")

8. "The scars of your love remind me of us / They keep me thinking that we almost had it all" (From "Rolling In The Deep")

9. "You made a fool out of me / And, boy, you're bringing me down" (From "Rumour Has It")

10. "Under your thumb I can't breathe" (From "Turning Tables")

11. "When was the last time you thought of me? / Or have you completely erased me from your memory?" (From "Don't You Remember")

12. "There's a side to you / That I never knew, never knew / All the things you'd say / They were never true, never true" (From "Set Fire To The Rain")

13. "My dignity's become undone" (From "He Won't Go")

14. "So is it over? / Is this really it? / You've given up so easily / I thought you loved me more than this" (From "Take It All")

15. "I'll be waiting for you when you're ready to love me again / I'll put my hands up / I'll do everything different" (From "I'll Be Waiting")

16. "Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead" (From "Someone Like You")

17. "They say that time's supposed to heal ya, but I ain't done much healing" (From "Hello")

18. "I'm so mad I'm getting old / It makes me reckless" (From "When We Were Young")