Best for Last by Adele Song Info
“Best for Last” is a stripped-down acoustic track on Adele’s debut, 19. It sheds some light on the downfall of the relationship between Adele and her ex-boyfriend, which inspired almost all of the songs on the album. Here, we see Adele has developed mixed feelings about this guy. On one hand, she’s realized that, despite her best efforts, her love for him will remain indefinitely unrequited—no matter what she does, he always “goes back” to an old flame. She’s palpably frustrated, and states that he’s not even good enough to treat her in such a way. In the choruses, she rails against her cheating lover who has made her feel unwanted by telling him that really, he’s the temporary one who doesn’t mean anything. Yet everywhere else in the song, Adele is still attached to him. The way he mistreats her only makes her more eager to attract him, to the point where she’s stuck in a cycle of daydreaming about what he’ll say to her when it does work out… even as it still doesn’t.
