Adele, When We Were Young è una nuova canzone da 25: ascolta!

Oggi (17 novembre 2015) ha pubblicato su YouTube e VEVO il live di When We Were Young, la seconda canzone estratta dal suo nuovo disco dopo la fortunatissima Hello che sta frantumando record in tutto il mondo.

Il significato del brano, co-scritto insieme a Tobias Jesso Jr e prodotto da Ariel Rechtsaid, è stato spiegato con queste parole dalla cantante inglese in un'intervista a Sirius XM:

Si basa sul fatto di diventare vecchi, sei a una festa in questa casa, e vedi tutti quelli con cui non hai mai litigato, tutti quelli che hai amato, tutti quelli che non hai mai amato, e cose del genere, dove non puoi trovare il tempo di essere in altre vite. E sei insieme agli altri a questa festa a 50 anni, e non importa e ti diverti così tanto che ti senti come se fossi di nuovo un 15enne. Ecco, questo è il tipo di atmosfera della canzone.

Il pianoforte utilizzato per la realizzazione del pezzo apparteneva al compositore Philip Glass: si trova a casa della nonna di Tobias Jesso Jr e, dice Adele, "Era usato per fare folli feste in casa e per qualche ragione il pianoforte era lì, quindi abbiamo scritto la canzone lì".

Nella stessa intervista Miss Adkins ha rivelato che la sua parte preferita del testo di questa traccia è "You look like a movie / You sound like a song / My god this reminds me of when we were young".

La star britannica ha poi promesso che tornerà a esibirsi dal vivo per promuovere il nuovo album 25, che uscirà venerdì 20 novembre per XL/Columbia Records.

La performance si è tenuta presso i Church Studios di Londra, dove sono stati registrati alcuni dei brani di 25. Il video, firmato da Paul Dugdale, ha totalizzato 100 mila visualizzazioni in meno di un'ora.

Ascolta qui sotto When We Were Young, a seguire il testo della canzone.

Adele - When We Were Young lyrics

Everybody loves the things you do
From the way you talk
To the way you move
Everybody here is watching you
Cause you feel like home
You're like a dream come true
But if by chance you're here alone
Can I have a moment
Before I go?
Cause I've been by myself all night long
Hoping you're someone I used to know

You look like a movie
You sound like a song
My God, this reminds me
Of when we were young

Let me photograph you in this light
In case it is the last time
That we might be exactly like we were
Before we realized
We were sad of getting old
It made us restless
It was just like a movie
It was just like a song

I was so scared to face my fears
Cause nobody told me that you'd be here
And I swore you moved overseas
That's what you said, when you left me

You still look like a movie
You still sound like a song
My God, this reminds me
Of when we were young

Let me photograph you in this light
In case it is the last time
That we might be exactly like we were
Before we realized
We were sad of getting old
It made us restless
It was just like a movie
It was just like a song

When we were young
When we were young
When we were young
When we were young

It's hard to win me back
Everything just takes me back
To when you were there
To when you were there
And a part of me keeps holding on
Just in case it hasn't gone
I guess I still care
Do you still care?

It was just like a movie
It was just like a song
My God, this reminds me
Of when we were young

When we were young
When we were young
When we were young
When we were young

Let me photograph you in this light
In case it is the last time
That we might be exactly like we were
Before we realized
We were sad of getting old
It made us restless
I'm so mad I'm getting old
It makes me reckless
It was just like a movie
It was just like a song
When we were young