I heard that your dreams came true/Guess she gave you things I couldn’t give to you”. Lyrically, there are no secrets to Adele’s ballad – she’s singing about the end of her first “real relationship” (it was a long-term affair) and how she feels on hearing that her ex is now happily married to another: “I heard that you settled down/That you found a girl and you’re married now. They didn’t just find that Someone Like Youis one of the most perfectly composed, arranged and delivered sad songs of all time but a whole lot more besides. Such has been the ubiquity of Adele’s tear-jerking ballad Someone Like Youthat scientists have been hauled in to explain just what is it about that particular collection of notes and words that moves so many people. What is it about certain songs that instantly transform us into misty-eyed puddles of melancholy? And why do we love them? BRIAN BOYDsniffles his way through the science of sad music
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