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Adele

Lay Me Down

Release date: 20th November 2015

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About This Track

Adele strips back the production for 'Lay Me Down', a closing track that trades the orchestral sweep of her album's singles for something more intimate. The song circles around a single request, repeated across verses and chorus: a plea for physical closeness, for someone to stay through the night. There's vulnerability in the repetition, a kind of gentle insistence that words fail her when she's face to face with the person she needs. The architecture is minimal. Verses build on a simple admission of surrender, pre-choruses acknowledge the difficulty of articulation, and the chorus returns to that central refrain, each iteration softening slightly. It's a song about the gap between what she wants to say and what actually emerges when the moment arrives, framed not as frustration but as an appeal for help, for the lights to go down so the conversation can happen differently.

"Lay Me Down" is a track by Adele, from the album 25 (Target Exclusive), released 20th November 2015. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 8 articles about Adele.

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Adele

Adele

Lyrics

Lay Me Down

[Verse 1]

I would never lie to you unless you tell me to

Every part of me, all my words to hold

And hold against me, why won't you let it be?

[Pre-Chorus]

Don't you ever say my love, "open up your heart"

No I'm not gonna do it standing up

The words don't come out right when you're right in front of me

Help me baby, won't you turn off the lights

[Chorus]

Lay me down ('til the morning)

Lay me down (through the night)

Lay me down (I can fall in)

Lay me down (Won’t you)

Lay me down (I can baby)

Lay me down (Someone believe me)

[Verse 2]

I would never break the rules unless you tell me to

You can read my mind, be it truth or lies

Lie down beside me, why won't you let it be?

[Pre-Chorus]

Don't you ever say my love opened up your heart

No I'm not gonna do it standing up

The words don't come out right when you're right in front of me

Help me baby, won't you turn off the lights

[Chorus]

Lay me down ('til the morning)

Lay me down (through the night)

Lay me down (I can fall in)

Lay me down (Won't you)

Lay me down (I can baby)

Lay me down (Someone believe me)

[Bridge]

Lay down with me

Lay down with me

Lay down with me

Lay down with me

[Pre-Chorus]

Words don't come out right when you're right in front of me

Help me baby, won't you turn off the lights

[Chorus]

Lay me down ('til the morning)

Lay me down (through the night)

Lay me down (I can fall in)

Lay me down (Won't you)

Lay me down (I can baby)

Lay me down (Someone believe me)

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  2. —Why Do You Love Me
  3. —Lay Me Down

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
Adele, Tobias Jesso Jr.
Producer
Mark Ronson
Engineer
Ben Baptie, Jens Jungkurth, Joe Harrison, Joshua Blair, Riccardo Damian
Bass
Nick Movshon
Drums
Homer Steinweiss
Guitar
Leo Abrahams, Thomas Brenneck
Vocals
Adele
Additional Production
Lil Silva
Assistant Mixing Engineer
Joe Visciano
Mastering Engineer
Randy Merrill, Tom Coyne
Mixing Engineer
Tom Elmhirst
Pads
Mark Ronson
Piano
Victor Axelrod
Programmer
Lil Silva
Recording Engineer
Liam Nolan, Phil Allen
Synthesizer
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