Be Like Adele: Give Up
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4 min readOct 18, 2021
“There ain’t no gold in this river that I’ve been washing my hands in forever”
When I first heard Adele’s newest release, “Easy On Me,” I felt chills through my entire body. And then I burst into tears.
The song, written to her son, is about her divorce. Her grief is palpable as she sings about how she had good intentions and high hopes, how she was still a child without enough life experience…