Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks, you have heard Adele’s new power ballad, ‘Hello.’ While the memes of the song are quite entertaining, the song itself is even more incredible. If you’re like me, and you’ve kept it on nonstop repeat for the past week, you know just how beautiful the song is. Adele’s lyrics convey a simple, but incredibly relatable message of reconciliation with a lost love. Her song tugs at the heart strings, as most people listening are imagining a love from their past whom they wish to reconcile with.

In this day and age of casual relationships, booty calls and hookups, it is nearly inevitable that feelings will be hurt, and bridges will be burned. Weeks, months, even years later, broken hearts are still dwelling on things unsaid, and are aching to resolve them. That’s where Adele’s song comes in, brilliantly capturing these complicated emotions and lingering thoughts.

For everyone who has ever thought of calling an ex and saying everything they ever wanted to say but didn’t, there isn’t a more perfect song. With lyrics that perfectly express those innermost thoughts and desires, ‘Hello’ is the wake up.

Our generation is expert at keeping emotions within an arm’s length, ever emotionally detached. We aren’t healed after spending time apart, we are selfish in our relationships, and we come to regret our actions later on in life as we look back. Adele’s song serves as both a cathartic release of these emotions, as well as a warning.

She warns us about the dangers of keeping emotional baggage hidden, and letting it destroy a relationship. Years later, as she reflects, she is so upset about breaking her ex’s heart that she must have called him a thousand times, but their relationship was so damaged, he won’t even answer.

Perhaps one loved the other more than the other did them, but whatever it is that Adele has done, she feels so far away that she is on another side…the other side of the story.

While we are ‘young and free,’ Adele makes sure that her listeners know not to take it for granted, and to hold on to that feeling when the world falls at our feet. Holding onto your freedom does not, however, equate to being emotionally or physically distant; a ‘million miles,’ as Adele puts it. Her incredible voice only adds to the power of the song, making you feel like she’s shouting everything you’ve ever wanted to shout, but haven’t. Listening to this song makes me want to be more honest in my own relationships, and I’m sure I’m not the only one. The one lyric that really resonates is the first line of the chorus, ‘Hello from the other side,’ and ‘Hello from the outside,’ giving the impression that she is so far removed from this ex, that she is outside his life. Constantly being emotionally detached will only result in cutting people out from our lives, and who wants that emotional distress?

We should all take Adele’s message to heart and integrate it into our own relationships, and avoid distancing ourselves from the people that can matter the most to us. Until then, just keep playing the song on repeat. You know you want to.