Adele - Hometown Glory
Time: 2:06
Are the wonders of now
I like it in the city, when the air is so thick and opaque
I love it to see everybody in short skirts, shorts and shades

not transparent or translucent; not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy
Heard in 48 songs (29M+ combined views) — most famously in "Hometown Glory" by Adele.
Updated July 27, 2026
Time: 2:06
Are the wonders of now
I like it in the city, when the air is so thick and opaque
I love it to see everybody in short skirts, shorts and shades

Time: 2:38
I've recognised the glow of your low beams numerous times
Through fairly opaque blinds in the sitting room
Vehicles will pass by, but I know when it's you

Time: 1:04
Passe à minuit, ça m'intéresse, gros coup d'volant tah MBS
Fumée opaque dans l'BM, donc ça s'lève à 10 p.m.
Beaucoup d'bombes dans l'ATM, Luther King prime, ATL

Time: 0:49
I've been unlaced
Stitch me up, I'm not opaque
Please don't excavate

Time: 0:07
Sigue, sigue
No dejes que nada opaque tu felicidad
♪

Time: 0:51
Black star, the cosmic soul
Shining opaque, celestial furnace
Glittering dark, a sun in mourning

Time: 2:37
Like do genitals and gender roles successfully conflate?
The current art world is just competitively opaque
It never ceases to amaze, my mouth is medically agape

Time: 0:47
A new tactile cremation attested
Opaque spurs, contemplative mayhem keeps us
Branded on the wrist do not embalm

Time: 1:50
You a fish where the sharks a-swim
In that opaque linen with the odd-coloured stitching
V12 on the Modena, you can see the pistons

Time: 0:42
No nails grown yet, or are toes now green?
Both eyes blank screens, eyeballs opaque, robot ear gone
Ringing silence, back again, mate

Time: 0:19
Put me aside for a lifetime, pull my lifeline so you feel you've won
I know I may look opaque
I may look like I've made way too many mistakes

Time: 0:36
Pains and aches, real and fake
We go together, don't be opaque
It's clear we go together

Time: 1:13
Although your mind's opaque
Try thinking more if just for your own sake

Time: 0:47
You will see yourself as I see you
It is a mirror sombre and opaque
Which protects me, which stifles me

Time: 1:43
¡Motívate!
Haz que se opaque tu voz
De sufrimiento

Time: 0:58
Completeness is written on a cake
The red, the white, the blue, the opaque
Smoking up into a nothing

Time: 0:59
Like a flirtatious flounder upon a non-reflecting mirror
Like, what is this opaque window of comfort, that we cannot overcome?
It is a manifestation of love

Time: 0:50
To indulge in the pity
The opaque substitution
For a real revolution

Time: 2:30
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Yeah, this is why you're always so opaque
♪

Time: 0:57
Drugs up in my DNA (Northside)
Dead eye, my soul is opaque (north), straight out the plague
Blackout the whip like a rage (Northside)

Time: 0:53
I'm told that all your seeds are black
I've learned the question is unanswered and opaque
♪

Time: 3:42
Don't see em why they acting like they get it
I see through em everybody opaque with it
(Opaque with it)

Time: 1:44
Résonne sur le lac
D'une profondeur opaque
Ô Artémis

Time: 3:11
Everything's expensive
And opaque and privatized
My shoe organizing thing arrived

Time: 1:18
You all loved him once
When the future was opaque
His reassuring visions were the pillars of your faith

Time: 0:14
I walk so tired, so opaque
His words, too many I can

Time: 0:15
Opaque the dissident establishment
That we all suffer

Time: 2:10
Like, like, like hieroglyphs
Bioluminescent opaque shapes
Fill up the Pontiac

Time: 0:43
J'vois les vitres humides
Le ciel opaque et puis le trac, j'ai
Quand j'essaie juste de franchir le pas, et de te parler

Time: 1:08
De la diva
Lumière opaque
Meilleur profil

Time: 1:16
Are sentient toys even more fun to break?
What sick minds in an opaque display?
Don't you think

Time: 3:36
Is it really that strange to try and find some peace?
Is it so opaque that you still can't see?
♪

Time: 0:26
Subissant les offenses des professeurs qui me frappaient les fesses
A cette époque les souvenirs paraissent plutôt opaques
J'me rappelle des potes et du lapin que l'on cherchait à Pâques

Time: 1:36
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Cracked and opaque glasses
Maddeningly useless

Time: 0:24
Banned and forgotten was the prophet and the prophecy
The Opaque brotherhood, they label it hypocrisy
Like a lost practice of the Celtic tribes

Time: 0:20
Spinning a spiral, glowing in air
That is thick and opaque and is black, flat dead black
Uselessly screaming while chewing the ceiling

Time: 1:28
And the world keeps moving on, black and white blur into one.
Hieroglyphic, indecipherable, opaque; the meaning escapes me.
Dry and lidless, are my eyes.

Time: 1:06
♪
Wipe your opaque eyes and restore your crystal vision
Turn another cheek and exalt in your decision

Time: 2:12
You saw that each one of us
Are opaque as woven air
Your dark humor no one could touch

Time: 1:37
Finally bossed up, bought myself up off the label (Boss)
I can't have no conversation if it ain't opaque (No)
Mansion twenty thousand square feet with seven acres (Mansion)

Time: 0:56
When unhampered by the agents
Of the governors of the faceless so opaque
As bare tree's and winter winds

Time: 0:00
Dans la clarté opaque de la nuit quand elle claque
Dans le vide qui dérange, dans le vide sidéral

Time: 0:36
Pegasus flown over my skeletal features
But an opaque anatomy is all I'll ever be
For none to see

Time: 0:40
I usually played such things as rough-neck and thug
Opaque melodies that would bug most people
♪

Time: 0:09
It's all I'm looking for
These moments of opaque-eyed knocked-out rapture
Helpless as a calf at the capture

Time: 3:33
Je sais pas vraiment c' que ça prenait
Pour percer son confort opaque
Avec ses plus de trente-quatre balais

Time: 0:32
I can see through all the bullshit it isn't opaque
In it for money they really just trying to get paid

Time: 0:33
J'vois plus ce que les millis valent
Cœur opaque comme l'ivoire
À l'avant du mini-van
