Adele's new album "30" opens with "Strangers By Nature," a song that immediately sets the tone for the rest of the album. The British musician opens with the lyrics, "I'll be taking flowers to the cemetery of my heart / For all of my lovers in the present and in the dark / Every anniversary, I'll pay respects and say I'm sorry / For they never stood a chance as if they could," that heartbreakingly appears to find her trying to mend past relationships, a divorce from Simon Konecki, and even mistakes. However, she is also willing to apologize and grow from it, which is also a present theme on the record.
Adele opened up about the song specifically in a cover interview with Rolling Stone for its December issue. "You know in the old movies when someone's having a flashback or a memory to something else, and it's almost like they'll shoot a river or a pond and the water goes all ripply? It reminds me of that," she said.
