Adele has opened up about the deeper meaning behind some of her lyrics on her new album, 30.
In the outro of the seventh track on the record titled 'I Drink Wine,' the superstar vocalist says: "I didn't get to go on and make new memories with him / There were just memories in a big storm."
The "Easy on Me" singer told The Face magazine in an interview last week that the lines refer to someone she was interested in before she met her current boyfriend, sports agent Rich Paul.
"It was, like, scrambling as quick as I could to get my life back together, so that I could feel normal again," Adele explained.
She said she was not dating anyone at the time and added: "There was someone that I have loved — not been in love with, but been so fond of, and have been for years — but I was unable to pretend that I wasn’t in my own storm."
The relationship didn't work out because Adele said "I couldn't give myself properly" and both of them "couldn’t be consistent."
She thought "it wasn’t right" to start another relationship a year after a divorce.
"Even if you feel ready, it's a gaping, open wound whether you leave or you’re left. So it was more that this person was asking for me to throw myself into it," she added.
The musician was "still recovering from the breakdown of my marriage," so the potential relationship didn't go anywhere.
In 2019, Adele split from her ex-husband, Simon Konecki. The pair, who share nine-year-old son Angelo, finalized their divorce in March. Her song 'My Little Love' includes snippets of conversations Adele had with Angelo about the separation.
"Mommy's been having a lot of big feelings recently ... I feel a bit confused. And I feel like I don't really know what I'm doing," she tells her son during the track.
Adele admitted to The Face magazine that she connects this unnamed potential partner to the collapse of her marriage. "So, therefore, he is part of the storm," she said.
The singer recalled being thankful that she was honest because she did not want to end one relationship and rush into another.
"I became very aware of the patterns that I was repeating over and over again since I was 16 and 17 - not necessarily in relationships or, you know, intimate relationships, but also my relationship with my friends sometimes," she concluded.