Adele - Skyfall Lyrics Meaning

It was Thomas Jefferson who said "When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred."

It is a very wise thing to say and even wiser to practice doing. It's obvious that "The End" is the theme of the song but it's not clear which end or who's end. Arguments have been made that the lyrics describe and follow the plot very closely. I'm going to have to go with a more personal interpretation simply because Adele wrote the lyrics, I think. And she's pretty smart.

I think it's possible she had a dream like the one I had a few nights ago. A dream in which you are hand in hand with someone moving toward what seems to be the edge of the earth and when you get there you are alone together with a wall behind you, watching the earth and sky plunge harmoniously down in a waterfall-like wonder. The only two left, just watching. Or not...

I could take it line for line instead because her lyrics seems to have a progression. It's a metaphor to "feel the earth move." I think it is a message for whoever she is going to be with as this all goes down. They need to hear her and trust her because she's experienced something of an end.

To drown inside a moment, to dream of that moment...it's not clear to whom she owes this message but she tells it and says it's overdue. Perhaps she could have seen it for a long time and has never spoken about it but now she's swept away by either it or someone who she will share the moment with. She'll steal away from everything to experience it. A dream?

The sky falls, the earth crumbles, and they are tall, huge, like the last ones, the only ones left. They are witnessing it all together. It's euphoric and terrible but somehow love seems to take the place of every other emotion. Like the feeling I had once when I visited Niagara with an ex on the maid of the mist, just experiencing something magnificent and powerful together. It's amazing.

The next bit...
To start at the end as if there's hope of a future after the experience of it is a dreamers perspective. It would be nice to have the world to yourself, wouldn't it?
A thousand miles and poles apart is a very long distance for two hearts. The heart is where worlds collide and because of heartbreak the days may be dark, either figuratively or literally, depending on how far away they actually are.

The having her number, her name, and any other common thing refers to anyone but the one she wants with her. The one she loves. That's why you can't have her heart. Ever. I am guessing this is something she might have said before. It could be more about the story of bond but it could be a simple rejection to anyone but the one.

Then comes the ominous lines "where you go I go, what you see I see." To the one she loves, this is perfect. It means they are connected on a higher level. If it refers to bond, I've heard something else about it. Perhaps she needs the closeness of "your" loving arms, the one. She wouldn't be the same without that. The protection of her heart may even depend on it, for when they are together nothing can harm her. Even when standing together, hand in hand, as the whole world falls around them.

It's definitely different from what she's been doing. For all we know it could be a last goodbye. That reminds me, at the end of my dream, I kiss the one I'm with before I jump into it. I woke up not knowing whether or not she jumped too but we were holding hands. :)