ashley parker angel sang the song only know your lover when you let her go.
ashley parker angel sang the song only know your lover when you let her go.
who sings the song only know your lover when you let her go?
ashley parker angel
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lyrically, the song is a kiss-off track that discusses being righteous towards a former lover in order to forgive and find closure. at the beginning, adele grieves for the end of a past relationship and relates the things her ex-lover did that wronged her during it. however, as the song progresses, she forgives her ex-partner, acknowledges that she will move on past him, heard in the lines "i'm giving you up / i've forgiven it all / you set me free, oh." during the song's chorus, she sends him good wishes and blessings for his new relationship, "send my love to your new lover / treat her better / we gotta let go of all our ghosts / we both know we ain't kids no more." petrusich added that "[t]here's unrequited love, but then there’s love that changes shape; [...] this is the love that adele sings of, the kind where there’s nothing left to do but resign." during an interview with "the guardian", adele referred to the track as a "fuck-you song" to an ex-boyfriend, whom she dated between the guy who inspired her "21" album, and husband simon konecki. adele describes it as a "happy you're gone" song, and commented that the opening line where she sings, "this was all you/ none of it me", "it's fucking sick." a writer for "the guardian" deemed it to be a belligerent "revenge song," similar to gloria gaynor's "i will survive" (1978) and beyoncé's "irreplaceable" (2006).
send my love (to your new lover)