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Set Fire To The Rain by: Adele Set Fire To The Fire lyrics (English…

- - - - She was 18 when she was pregnant with Adele during the year 1986
    - - He was an alcoholic and left Adele and her mother during the age of 3 in 1999
- - - - There is a phrase in the song “I let it fall, my heart, And as it fell you rose to claim it”, a heart can’t be falling and someone catching it on the other hand so it is personification. The phrase “I set fire to fire to the rain”, “That I never knew, never knew”, “They were never true, never true”, “You would always win, always win”, “Cause I heard it screaming out your name, your name!”, “Cause I knew that that was the last time, the last time!”, all these phrases are repeated multiple times throughout the song, this is repetition.
    - - “Feel you here forever”, you can't actually feel someone forever so this is hyperbole, she exaggerated about feeling his partner forever but eventually something will happen to her or them. We can find this sentence in the 5th stanza. We can also see hyperbole in stanza 8 and 11. The phrase "And I threw us into the flames" shows that she wants to end the relationship together and this might imply that she doesn't want any of them to be sad and want all the sadness to be burned in the flames. But you can't literally throw people into the flames and things would get better so she is exaggerating the fact above.
    - - The phrase “I set fire to the rain”, “That I never knew, never knew”, “They were never true, never true”, “You would always win, always win”, “Cause I heard it screaming out your name, your name!”, “Cause I knew that that was the last time, the last time!”. All these phrases are repeatedly seen across the song, all these phrases have one thing in common, someone who is screaming or having a mental breakdown would say something like this. In the first stanza, it says that "let it fall, my heart, as it fall you rose to claim it." Your heart can't literally be falling and someone catching it, so it is figurative imagery. The imagery in the song is dark and sadness.
    - - In the song, Adele uses fire and rain to show 2 different things because fire can't be lit under a rain. We can see this throughout the song in many first lines of the stanzas in the song.
    - - Adele uses the phrase "set fire to the rain" to express that she has the courage to do what she needs to break out of her toxic relationship. The fire signifies the anger and the hate in her and the rain symbolises her tears and heartache that she has in the relationship. I think that she wants to turn her tears into a fire, she doesn't want to be sad when she has her break up, she wants to be angry.
    - - In the last stanza, we can see that she repeats "Oh nooo Let it burn, oh Let it burn, Let it burn." This is alliteration, this shows that how much she wants this relationship to end and she wants to end it in anger, she doesn't want it to end it in sadness.