Take It All

Eg White, who co-wrote Chasing Pavements, helped pen this ballad. Adele told The Sun: "It turned out to be about the early stages of a relationship falling apart."

This is one of several tracks on 21 inspired by a turbulent relationship Adele had in the years following her success. She told Q magazine: "The album is a story about meeting the love of your life and being perfect for each other, but not at that moment of time."

When Adele introduces this track during her performance captured on the Live at the Royal Albert Hall CD/DVD, she reveals regarding the ex that inspired most of 21: "He left me a couple of weeks after I played him this song. It was for the best, though. He was an ass and I was a bitch -- it wasn't going to work."