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 * //(1983-2011)//**
 * //Back to Black 2007 Album//**

// DEAD HIRESS TO QUEEN OF SOUL //

//**Summary**//
 * Amy Jade Winehouse
 * Why this song?
 * Video
 * Lyrics
 * Analysis and Interpretation [[image:http://www.vistelacalle.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/amyw001.jpg width="560" height="420" align="right"]]
 * Crazy in Love 'Freddy Mercury'

// **Amy Jade** //// **Winehouse** //

Famous soul singer of this 21 st century, dead at the age of 27, who was capable of fully express her feelings through her songs. 2 nd Album __which whom__ reached the 1 st place in British lists. Distinguished by her high black bow** ??? ** she was the __Winner__ of uncountable awards __she is now days__ internationally considered a legend. Amy was a __slim__ drug addict who inspired many people as it was clearly visible the decadence she suffered. Always different, Amy stood out because of her distinctive way of being and singing, she saw, lived and sang in her own way.

//**Why thi**//// **s song?** //

I chose this song because I particularly appreciate it, the singer has poured her feelings into it writing the lyrics herself and it makes a big difference overall. __This song woke up interest in me from__ the very first time I heard it, I still wasn’t aware of the amount of truth hidden in her words and already sensed how near Amy was to black. __Even not listening to the lyrics you are transmitted the pain in her voice__ and the slow loss of hope she is going through. Apart from the po werful voice the song as well has a strong slow beat which matches her mood perfectly and makes you empathise with her. However as gloomy as it can seem it was when she died that I realised how personally special the song was for herself. The lyrics come directly from Amy’s experiences therefore are full of meaning and amazingly tactful for the listener. The reason I chose it is as well is because of the various debates and interpretations the lyrics provoke.

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//**The Lyrics of Back to Black song:**//

//He left no time to regret// //Kept his d* wet// //with his same old safe bet// //Me and my head high// //and my tears dry// //get on without my guy//

//You went back// //to what you knew// //So far removed// //from all that we went through// //And I tread a troubled track// //my odds are stacked// //I'll go back to black//

//and I go back to.....// //I go back to us//
 * //We only said goodbye with words//**
 * //I died a hundred times//**
 * //You go back to her//**

//I love you much// //it's not enough// //You love b////* and I love puff// //And life is like a pipe// //and I'm a tiny penny rolling up the walls inside//

//and I go back to...//
 * //We only said goodbye with words//**
 * //I died a hundred times//**
 * //You go back to her//**

//black x7// //I go back to// //I go back to//

//and I go back to//
 * //We only said goodbye with words//**
 * //I died a hundred times//**
 * //You go back to her//**

//and I go back to black...//
 * //We only said goodbye with words//**
 * //I died a hundred times//**
 * //You go back to her//**

//**Interpretation and Analysis**//

Back to black is clearly a dark love song in which she loves him more than he lves her. Once apart Amy plays the not so distant role of her reality in which she falls into the darkness she had left. It talks about his ex-boyfriend and about drugs which is basically the world she lived in before dying. Therefore she talks about her personal problems __through__ all the CD before her life came to an end, we are able to sense her feelings and to realise she knew she was heading down and down. I divided the song in different stanzas as I felt I had to, to understand and organise it better. I will talk about different interpretations as I am not aware if there is a correct one.
 * First stanza

The first verse tells us his ex-boy is gone, probably dead as the video suggests. __It describes the realtion her and her ex had__. There was no time left for him to feel guilty about what he had done. Moreover he didn’t even realise he had fallen into drugs and died before realising it. Then Amy keeps on singing the next two verses she reveals us the man used to abandon her with his lover while them together ‘with his same old safe bet’. Which could also be a metaphor that indicates the drug is his love affair. Somehow she is telling us his loved boy had kept seeing her ex-girlfriend, the drug, and finally came back to her leaving Amy alone and ended dead because of it. __Her head high intimates she will try to__ remain strong and unaffected although his boy has left her, however we know she won’t be because of what she states with the tears. The fifth verse would be very simple if we had listened to her whole album where she clearly states the meaning of it in the ‘Tears dry on their own’ song. The lyrics talk about the same: her boy leaving for his last girlfriend. The meaning of dry tears is that although she is left alone tears will eventually disappear even though she still feels them. She will sometime stop crying but will never stop feeling the pain of his loss. The boy can’t come back from the grave and __crates a bigger impact__ **??** as we sense she is suffering to a greater extent. The last stanza states these two things only go on together without his boy, the only time when she tries to hold her head high and her tears dry because she is trying not to suffer.
 * Second stanza

There is no possible way to hear the jumping of the stanza __if there is not a listening of the lyrics__. Amy Winehouse changes the way she was referring to her boyfriend from ‘him’ to ‘you’. She hasn’t even realised and is speaking in her mind directly with him and not about him like before. That is the way I separated the first stanza from the second. She talks about him going back to what he knew, as we know is this drug he never left even when with her. In the fourth verse she lets us know she doesn’t understand __how can that be possible__ as they together went over land and sea. Separated by something which lived between them is unbelievable to her. She then keeps on singing and admits __his death will lead her to a worse path where her odds are stacked.__ Already she is aware she will fall and won’t be able of climbing again like in reality. I’ll go back to black is the main message of the song: without her lover she will go nowhere. Black means the worst, darkness, drugs and death which she though had left when being with him not as him who never left it.


 * Third stanza

The next stanza is the chorus. It consists in three rigid verses and one last which is flexible as sometimes changes.

Singing we see how she felt they weren’t really apart when he left. ‘We only said goodbye with words’ means they could have come together one more time as they always broke up and came back together. Her dying a hundred times means every time they broke up she felt as dying because he was not there anymore. But if they broke up so many times that is because they probably came back together lots of times. She is going back to black and dying again he is not there, but still feels as if he will come back and be with her. As if the goodbye he has done dying was the same as the others and he will eventually come back, as we know he won’t. You going back to her has a clear meaning: Amy is crying for his boyfriend which has gone back to drugs. The last verse that will vary slightly through the song now plays as ‘I go back to us’. Which leads us to the rhetorical question of; who is us? He is dead, he isn’t coming back there is no us.. Unless she is talking about her and someone else the verse hasn’t got any sense. She is probably referring to her and blackness as a pair. >  Her singing it is not enough is her trying to explain to her ex that things weren’t working well enough even though they loved each other and it was a special relationship. The next verse talks about their differences and how did they love different types of drug like an example. He had to give more to her because it was a complicated relation they holded. Then she keeps on singing and offers us a simile. ‘Life is like a pipe’. She is probably comparing life with drugs although you could also think she is talking about a real pipe. In both cases we can look at life through her eyes and see it is dirty and without any aim. The simile carries on in the last verse of the fourth stanza where she compares herself with the ball inside the drug clinging and going round up and down. However we could also say she is talking about about a real penny which tryes to climb but as she said before her odds are sacked. It is imposible for her to climb the walls in the pipe because is it round, she feels like there is nothing going to stop her from going down. There is no way up. The song simply goes on now repeating the chorus… All the meaning it has for me is already explained. She has her boy no more and is leading to decad ence.
 * Fourth Stanza

She did in fact go Back to Black and never climb up this is why the song is so important to me.

//**Freddy Mercury once used the same metaphor...**//

// CRAZY LOVE //

// I met her when I was 16. // // A common "friend" introduced us. // // Did she like me? // // Yes, she did. // // Did I like her? // // No, I didn't like her. // // I loved her. // // It was passion, love at first sight. // // She really drove me crazy. // // And I didn't know how to live without her. // // But the world didn't want that love. // // My parents didn't approve of it, so I had to see her secretly. // // And when that became impossible, I didn't know what to do. // // I wanted her // // I needed her // // so when I didn't have her, // // things really got out of control. // // I wrecked the car, // // I broke all the doors and windows in my room, // // I almost killed my sister. // // Why did I do that? // // I had a passion for her, // // I went crazy when I didn't have her. // // Today I'm 45. // // I'm a terminally ill patient in a hospital, // // and I know I'm going to die pretty soon. // // There's no one around me now: // // no family, no friends and of course she's not here now. // // Did I tell you her name? // // Cocaine. //

// I owe her my love, // // my life, // // my destruction and my death. //

// 'Freddy Mercury' //



Freddy was in the same situation __Amys__ boyfirend was, they both had the same lover : THE DRUG.

Not further after we all know she as well fell and went back to this black.