@puckeylut,
Dude, are you a freaking moron or what? How on Earth can you possibly think that "Rolling in the Deep" is about the sea? Have you ever listened to it? It's a song about a woman who has cheated on or who has been dumped. There is NO hidden metaphor about rolling waves or the sea. Let's look a little closer:
"There's a fire starting in my heart, Reaching a fever pitch, and it's bringing me out the dark. Finally, I can see you crystal clear"
Translation - My hearts on fire because of you cheating/dumping me and I can see things clearly now.
"Go ahead and sell me out, and I'll lay your **** bare"
Definition: "Sell me out" means to betray someone; to reveal damaging information about someone. "Lay bare" means to expose or clarify something, to reveal, uncover.
Translation: Betray me and I am going to tell the world the truth about your cheating ways.
"See how I'll leave with every piece of you, Don't underestimate the things that I will do."
Translation: Go ahead and betray me and I will own you ass.
"Baby, I have no story to be told, But I've heard one on you, now I'm gonna make your head burn. Think of me in the depths of your despair. Make a home down there as mine sure won't be shared."
Translation: I have nothing to hide but I've just learned an interesting story about you and when I tell all your life will be a living Hell.
"You'll pay me back in kind and reap just what you sow"
Definition: Pay in kind - payment for goods or services with a medium other than legal tender.
Reap what you sow - means everything that happens to you is a result of your own actions aka Karma is a bitch. Translation: Your suffering when I expose you for the jerk you are will be my payment for you cheating on me and that everything comes full circle.
"The scars of your love remind me of us, They keep me thinking that we almost had it all. The scars of your love, they leave me breathless.
Translation: The love I had for you left me breathless but now the scars you left me with leave me breathless. I thought our love was perfect, until....
The song has nothing to do with putting a ship in dry dock, the sea or rolling waves. Jeesh! Have none of you seen the video or heard the pain in Adele’s voice. At 23 this woman has loved and been hurt, bad, and that is what most of the album “21” is about.