SET FIRE TO THE RAIN
ADELE
SONGWRITERS: ADELE
ADKINS & FRASER T. SMITH
WHERE: Live at The Royal
Albert Hall
COUNTRY: U.K.
ALBUM: ELETRIC AIR
LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS
GENRE: SOUL
YEAR: 2010
"Set
Fire to the Rain" is a song by English singer-songwriter Adele from her
second studio album 21. The song was Adele's third consecutive US number-one
single from 21, and reached the top ten in a number of other markets. The song
was voted by readers of Billboard as their favorite number one hit of 2012. The
song's live rendition from the DVD Live at the Royal Albert Hall won the Grammy
Award for Best Pop Solo Performance at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards. With
sales of over 10 million copies, "Set Fire to the Rain" is one of the
best selling digital singles of all-time.
Adele
Laurie Blue Adkins MBE (/əˈdɛl/; born 5 May 1988) is an English singer-songwriter.
After graduating from the BRIT School in 2006, Adele signed a recording
contract with XL Recordings. In 2007, she received the Brit Awards Critics'
Choice Award and won the BBC Sound of 2008 poll. Her debut album, 19, was
released in 2008 to commercial and critical success. It is certified eight
times platinum in the UK, and three times platinum in the US. The album
contains her first song, "Hometown Glory", written when she was 16,
which is based on her home suburb of West Norwood in London. An appearance she
made on Saturday Night Live in late 2008 boosted her career in the US. At the 51st
Grammy Awards in 2009, Adele received the awards for Best New Artist and Best
Female Pop Vocal Performance.
Adele
released her second studio album, 21, in 2011. The album was critically well
received and surpassed the success of her debut, earning numerous awards in
2012, among them a record-tying six Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year;
two Brit Awards, including British Album of the Year; and three American Music
Awards, including Favorite Pop/Rock Album. The album has been certified 17
times platinum in the UK, and is overall the fourth best-selling album in the
nation. In the US, it has held the top position longer than any album since
1985, and is certified diamond. The best-selling album worldwide of 2011 and
2012, 21 has sold over 31 million copies. The success of 21 earned Adele
numerous mentions in the Guinness Book of World Records. She was the first
female artist to simultaneously have two albums in the top five of the Billboard
200 and two singles in the top five of the Billboard Hot 100, as well as the
first woman in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 to have three
simultaneous top 10 singles as a lead artist, with "Rolling in the Deep",
"Someone Like You", and "Set Fire to the Rain", all of
which also topped the chart. 21 is the longest-running number one album by a
female solo artist in the history of the UK and US Album Charts.
In 2012,
Adele released "Skyfall", which she co-wrote and recorded for the James
Bond film of the same name. The song won na Academy Award, a Grammy Award, and
a Golden Globe for Best Original Song, as well as the Brit Award for British
Single of the Year. After taking a three-year break, Adele released her third
studio album, 25, in 2015. It became the year's best-selling album and broke
first-week sales records in the UK and US. 25 was her second album to be
certified diamond in the US and earned her five Grammy Awards, including Album
of the Year, and four Brit Awards, including British Album of the Year. The
lead single, "Hello", became the first song in the US to sell over
one million digital copies within a week of its release. Her third concert
tour, Adele Live 2016, visited Europe, North America and Oceania, and concluded
with finale concerts at Wembley Stadium in late June 2017.
In 2011,
2012, and 2016, Adele was named Artist of the Year by Billboard. At the 2012
and 2016 Ivor Novello Awards, Adele was named Songwriter of the Year by the British
Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors. In 2012, she was listed at
number five on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Music. Time magazine named her one
of the most influential people in the world in 2012 and 2016. Her 2016–2017 tour, saw her break
attendance records in a number of countries, including the UK, Australia, and
the US. With sales of more than 120 million records, Adele is
one of the world's best-selling music artists.[
I let it fall, my heart
And as it fell, you rose to claim it
It was dark and I was over
Until you kissed my lips and you saved me
My hands, they were strong
But my knees were far too weak
To stand in your arms
Without falling to your feet
But there's a side to you
That I never knew, never knew
All the things you'd say
They were never true, never true
And the games you'd play
You would always win, always win
But I set fire to the rain
Watched it pour as I touched your face
Well, it burned while I cried
'Cause I heard it screaming out your name
Your name
When I lay with you
I could stay there, close my eyes
Feel you here forever
You and me together, nothing gets better
'Cause there's a side to you
That I never knew, never knew
All the things you'd say
They were never true, never true
And the games you'd play
You would always win, always win
But I set fire to the rain
Watched it pour as I touched your face
Well, it burned while I cried
'Cause I heard it screaming out your name
Your name
I set fire to the rain
And I threw us into the flames
Well, it felt something died
'Cause I knew that that was the last time
The last time
Sometimes I wake up by the door
That heart you caught must be waiting for you
Even now, when we're already over
I can't help myself from looking for you
I set fire to the rain
Watched it pour as I touched your face
Well, it burned while I cried
'Cause I heard it screaming out your name
Your name
I set fire to the rain
And I threw us into the flames
Well, it felt something died
'Cause I knew that that was the last time
The last time
Oh
Oh no, let it burn
Oh, let it burn
Let it burn.
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