Adele’s “Hold On”In looking back on their relationship, she taps into both her hope and her grief. She starts by singing. “Hold on / You are still strong / Love will soon come / Just hold, hold on,”viaGenius. Adele isn’t afraid to admit that there is some hope in the song.
“Oh, what have I done yet again? / Have I not learned anything?”She adds later, and she starts. “It’s hard to hold on to who I am / When I’m stumblin’ in the dark for a hand / I am so tired of battling with myself, with no chance to win.”Adele is also able to tap into the messy side of a split. “I swear to God, I am such a mess,”She sings. “The harder that I try, I regress / I’m my own worst enemy / Right now, I truly hate bein’ me.”
Adele talked about the emotional mess she was in and how it can be healed by accepting it in an interview with British Voguefor the magazine’s November issue. “I definitely learnt a lot of tools in my therapy, but I also just go with it,”She spoke. “I find the anxiety gets worse when you try and get rid of it.”