"My Little Love" highlights fragments of discussions with Adele's child Angelo she recorded while attempting to disclose her divorce to him.
The passionate melody contains accounts of herself and her nine-year-old child, Angelo, examining her sentiments about her separation with Simon Konecki, Angelo's dad. (The vocalist sought legal separation from Konecki in 2019 following eight years together, including three years of marriage.)
In a meeting for Vogue in November, 2021, she said: "I figured it very well may be a great touch, considering to be everybody's been at my entryway throughout the previous 10 years, as a fan, to be like, 'Would you like to come in?'"
"My Little Love" is tied in with showing Angelo who his mom truly is: a layered and muddled lady with a personality outside of their relationship, who's battled and cried and hurt.
Here's every verse of "My Little Love" lyrics so you can chime in, as well.
My Little Love Lyrics - Adele
[Verse 1]
My little love
I see your eyes widen like an ocean
When you look at me so full of my emotions
I'm findin' it hard to be here sincerely
I know you feel lost, it's my fault completely
[Bridge: Adele & Angelo Adkins]
Tell me you love me
I love you a million percent
[Verse 2]
I don't recognise myself in the coldness of the daylight
So I ain't surprised you can read through all of my lies
I feel so bad to be here when I'm so guilty
I'm so far gone and you're the only one who can save mе
[Bridge: Angelo Adkins & Adele]
Oi, I feel like you don't love me
Why do you feel likе that?
Do you like me?
You know mummy doesn't like anyone else like I like you, right?
[Chorus]
I'm holdin' on (Barely)
Mama's got a lot to learn (It's heavy)
I'm holdin' on (Catch me)
Mama's got a lot to learn (Teach me)
[Bridge: Adele & Angelo Adkins]
Mummy's been having a lot of big feelings recently
Like how?
Just, like, hang on, my fingers are trapped
Like, um, I feel a bit confused
Why?
I don't know
And I feel like I don't really know what I'm doing
Oh, at all?
At all
And that would make me go...
[Verse 3]
My little love
Tell me, do you feel the way my past aches?
When you lay on me, can you hear the way my heart breaks?
I wanted you to have everything I never had
I'm so sorry if what I've done makes you feel sad
[Bridge: Adele & Angelo Adkins]
I love your dad 'cause he gave you to me
You're half me and you're half daddy
Oh
[Chorus]
I'm holdin' on (Barely)
Mama's got a lot to learn (It's heavy)
I'm holdin' on (Catch me)
Mama's got a lot to learn (Teach me)
[Outro]
I'm having a bad day, I'm having a very anxious day
I feel very paranoid, I feel very stressed
Um, I have a hangover, which never helps, but
I feel like today is the first day since I left him that I feel lonely
And I never feel lonely, I love being on my own
I always preferred being on my own than being with people
And I feel like maybe I've been, like, overcompensating
And being out and stuff like that to keep my mind off of him
And I feel like today, I'm home and I wanna be at home
I just wanna watch TV and curl up in a ball and
Be in my sweats and stuff like that, but I just feel really lonely
I feel a bit frightened that I might feel like this a lot
Track Info
Artist: Adele
Track Name: My Little Love
Released Date: November 19, 2021
Label: Columbia Records
Writer(s): Adele Adkins, Ludwig Göransson
Producer(s): Ludwig Göransson
In Adele's main cover interview for the November 2021 issue of Vogue (US), questioner Abby Aguirre saw "My Little Love" and depicted it as having a "sexy '70s groove" and "heavy strings". Included in the melody are recorded discussions with Adele's child Angelo in the middle stanzas, and a voice message left for a companion as the outro.
She was propelled to fuse voice notes by California rapper Tyler, the Maker and the English rapper Skepta, she clarifies. "I figured it very well may be a great touch, considering everybody's been at my entryway throughout the previous 10 years, as a fan, to be like, Would you like to come in?”
Between calming sections and abstains, we hear bits of Adele and Angelo's helpless and genuine discussions about their affection for one another and the artist's disarray post-separate. Like:
Angelo: Do you like me?
Adele: You realize mummy doesn't care for any other individual like I like you, isn't that so?
What's more:
Adele: I love your father because he gave you to me. You're half me and you're half daddy.
The tune closes with a particularly tragic recording of Adele, talking solo, about an awful day—"the main day since I left him that I feel desolate," she says through tears.
However, 30 is about Adele sharing her encounters in her separation and her excursion of rediscovery, it's likewise a way for her to attempt to impart to her child what she was going through in this difficult time of her life. "I can't make that sound good to a nine-year-old," she told Vogue.
