Saturday, February 28, 2009

Back to Black is still a success

Back to Black has sold over 11 millions copies! Awesome! read more about it on Amy's blog!

Amy Winehouse - Just Friends - Lyrics

When will we get the time to be just friends
It's never safe for us not even in the evening
cause I've been drinking
Not in the morning where your shit works
It's always dangerous when everybody's sleeping
And I've been thinking
Can we be alone?
Can we be alone?

When will we get the time to be just friends
When will we get the time to be just friends

And no I'm not ashamed but the guilt will kill you
If she don't first
I'll never love you like her
Though we need to find the time
To just do this shit together
For it gets worse
I wanna touch you
But that just hurts

When will we get the time to be just just friends
When will we get the time to be just friends, just friends
When will we get the time to be just friends, just friends
When will we get the time to be just friends, just friends
Just friends

Amy Winehouse - Me & mr Jones - Live at MTV

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Mitch is in St Lucia

Mitch is in St Lucia, looking after Amy, after her collapse. Poor Mitch, he must be so worried.

Amy Winehouse - Help Yourself

Amy Winehouse - Rehab - Lyrics

Rehab is about a period when Amy was drinking a lot, after she got dumped by Blake and thought that she would never see him again. Her management team was worried about her drinking and made her go to a clinic in London. The staff thought she was only depressed and she was sent home after 30 minutes.

The song wasn't meant to be on Back to Black. Amy was in New York to make the album with Mark Ronson, and while telling Mark about the incident, she sang the one "The tried to make me go to rehab but I say no no no". Mark thought it was really good and asked who done it. When she said she just came up with it, he said that she should write a song about it, which she did. Rehab was written in ten minutes. Impressive.

---

They tried to make me go to rehab but I said 'no, no, no'
Yes I've been black but when I come back you'll know know know
I ain't got the time and if my daddy thinks I'm fine
He's tried to make me go to rehab but I won't go go go

I'd rather be at home with ray
I ain't got seventy days
Cause there's nothing
There's nothing you can teach me
That I can't learn from Mr Hathaway

I didn't get a lot in class
But I know it don't come in a shot glass

They tried to make me go to rehab but I said 'no, no, no'
Yes I've been black but when I come back you'll know know know
I ain't got the time and if my daddy thinks I'm fine
He's tried to make me go to rehab but I won't go go go

The man said 'why do you think you here'
I said 'I got no idea
I'm gonna, I'm gonna lose my baby
so I always keep a bottle near'
He said 'I just think your depressed,
this me, yeah baby, and the rest'

They tried to make me go to rehab but I said 'no, no, no'
Yes I've been black but when I come back you'll know know know

I don't ever wanna drink again
I just ooh I just need a friend
I'm not gonna spend ten weeks
have everyone think I'm on the mend

It's not just my pride
It's just 'til these tears have dried

They tried to make me go to rehab but I said 'no, no, no'
Yes I've been black but when I come back you'll know know know
I ain't got the time and if my daddy thinks I'm fine
He's tried to make me go to rehab but I won't go go go

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Amy's not coming home

There's been rumors about that Amy's coming back home to London to fix things up with Blake, but Amy's mum Janis means that's not true. Good Amy.

Amy Winehouse - Take the box - Live at Jools

Amy Winehouse - Stronger than me - Lyrics

You should be stronger than me
You been here seven years longer than me
Don't you know you supposed to be the man?
Not pale in comparison to who you think I am
You always wanna talk it through
I don't care
I always have to comfort you
When I'm there
But that's what I need you to do
Stroke my hair

Cuz I've forgotten all of young love's joy
Feel like a lady, and you my lady boy
You should be stronger than me
But instead you're longer than frozen turkey
Why'd you always put me in control?
All I need is for my man to live up to his role
You always wanna talk it through
I'm O.K
I always have to comfort you
Everyday
But that's what I need you to do
Are you gay?

Cuz I've forgotten all of young love's joy
Feel like a lady, n' you my lady boy
He said 'the respect I made you earn, thought you had so many lessons to learn'
I said 'you don't know what love is get a grip'
Sounds as if you're reading from some other tired script
I'm not gonna meet your mother anytime
I just wanna grip your body over mine
Please tell me why you think that's a crime
I've forgotten all of young love's joy
Feel like a lady and you my lady boy
You should be stronger than me...

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Amy househunting in St Lucia

Have you heard that Amy is househunting in St Lucia? God, she looks great at that picture!

Amy Winehouse - Valerie - Live at BBC

Amy Winehouse - Tears dry on their own - Lyrics

Tears dry on their own is a song about Amy's and Blake's breakup and is very different to the other breakup songs she's written about them. In other songs like Back to Black she's heartbroken, but in this one she's strong and means that it's not that bad.

In this song she talks about hotels again. I think her and Blake met a lot at hotels. Maybe cause they were with others while they were togethet?
---

All I can ever be to you,
Is a darkness that we knew,
And this regret I had to get accustomed to,
Once it was so right,
When we were at our high,
Waiting for you in the hotel at night,
I knew I hadn't met my match,
But every moment we could snatch,
I don't know why I got so attached,
It's my responsibility,
And you don't owe nothing to me,
But to walk away I have no capacity

He walks away,
The sun goes down,
He takes the day but I'm grown,
And in this grey, in this blue shade
My tears dry on their own,

I don't understand,
Why do I stress A man,
When there's so many better things at hand,
We could a never had it all,
We had to hit a wall,
So this is inevitable withdrawal,
Even if I stop wanting you,
A Perspective pushes thru,
I'll be some next man's other woman soon,

I shouldn't play myself again,
I should just be my own best friend,
Not fuck myself in the head with stupid men,

He walks away,
The sun goes down,
He takes the day but I'm grown,
And it's okay,
In this blue shade,
My tears dry on their own,

So we are history,
Your shadow covers me
The sky above,
A blaze only that lovers see

He walks away,
The sun goes down,
He takes the day but I'm grown,
And it's okay,
In this blue shade
My tears dry on their own,

I wish I could say no regrets,
And no emotional debts,
And as we kiss goodbye the sun sets,
So we are history,
The shadow covers me,
The sky above a blaze that only lovers see,

He walks away,
The sun goes down,
He takes the day but I'm grown,
And it's OK,
In this blue Shade,
My tears dry on their own,

Monday, February 23, 2009

The guide to Camden

You have to read this awesome guide to Camden, Amy's favourite place on earth! Love it!

Amy Winehouse - You're wondering now - Live at T in the park

Amy Winehouse - You know I'm no good - Lyrics

You know I'm no good was written while Amy was with Blake, and she was caught cheating with her ex by Blake when they ran in to eachother at a bar.

I think what people is wondering most on forums is what the phrase "likkle carpet burn" means. Likkle is jamaican slang for little and carpet burn means burn marks on the nees from having sex on a carpet.

The song deals with the problem that Amy can't be faithful, not even to the love of her life.

----

Meet you downstairs in the bar and hurt,
Your rolled up sleeves in your skull t-shirt,
You say “what did you do with him today?”,
And sniffed me out like I was Tanqueray,
’Cause you're my fella, my guy,
Hand me your stella and fly,
By the time I'm out the door,
You tear men down like Roger Moore,

I cheated myself,
Like I knew I would,
I told you I was trouble,
You know that I'm no good,

Upstairs in bed, with my ex boy,
He's in a place, but I can't get joy,
Thinking on you in the final throes,
This is when my buzzer goes,
Run out to meet you, chips and pitta,
You say “when we married”,
'cause you're not bitter,
”There'll be none of him no more,”
I cried for you on the kitchen floor,

I cheated myself,
Like I knew I would,
I told you I was trouble,
You know that I'm no good,

Sweet reunion, Jamaica and Spain,
We're like how we were again,
I'm in the tub, you on the seat,
Lick your lips as I soak my feet,
Then you notice likkle carpet burn,
My stomach drops and my guts churn,
You shrug and it's the worst,
Who truly stuck the knife in first

I cheated myself,
Like I knew I would
I told you I was trouble,
You know that I'm no good,

I cheated myself,
Like I knew I would
I told you I was trouble,
Yeah, you know that I'm no good.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Amy Winehouse - What is it about men - Lyrics

Understand once he was a family man
so surely I would never, ever go through it first hand
Emulate all the shit my mother hated
I can't help but demostrate my Freudian fate
My alibi for taking your guy
history repeats itself, it fails to die
and animal agression is my downfall
I don't care 'bout what you got I wanted all

It's bricked up in my head, it's shoved under my bed
and I question myself again: what is it 'bout men?
My destructive side has grown a mile wide
and I question myself again: what is it 'bout men?

I'm nurturing, I just wanna do my thing
and I'll take the wrong man as naturally as I sing
and I'll save my tears for uncovering my fears
for behavioural patters that stick over the years

It's bricked up in my head, it's shoved under my bed
and I question myself again: what is it 'bout men?
My destructive side has grown a mile wide
and I question myself again: what is it 'bout men?

Amy Winehouse - You're wondering now - Live at Glastonbury

Amy Winehouse - You know I'm no good - Live at BBC

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Amy Winehouse - No greater love - Lyrics

There is no greater love
Than what I feel for you
No sweeter song, no heart so true

There is no greater thrill
Than what you bring to me
No sweeter song
Than what you sing, sing to me

You're the sweetest thing
I have ever known
And to think that you are mine alone

There is no greater love
In all the world, it's true
No greater love
Than what I feel for you

Amy Winehouse - Stronger than me - Official Video

Amy Winehouse- Stronger than me video

The Specials / Amy Winehouse - Monkey Man - Lyrics

Aye aye aye, aye aye aye
Tell you baby, you huggin up the big monkey man
Aye aye aye, aye aye aye
Tell you baby, you huggin up the big monkey man

I never saw you, I only heard of you
huggin up the big monkey man
I never saw you, I only heard of you
huggin up the big monkey man

It's no lie, it's no lie
Them a tell me, you huggin up the big monkey man
It's no lie, it's no lie
Them a tell me, you huggin up the big monkey man

Now I know that, now I understand
You're turning a monkey on me
Now I know that, now I understand
You're turning a monkey on me

Aye aye aye, aye aye aye
Tell you baby, you huggin up the big monkey man
Aye aye aye, aye aye aye
Tell you baby, you huggin up the big monkey man

I was on my way to Banbury Cross,
Then I see a monkey upon a white horse
With rings on he fingers, bells on him toes
Sing a little song, wherever he be
'Cos he's a monkey, 'cos he's a monkey
'Cos he's a weedy little monkey man

Aye aye aye, aye aye aye
Tell you baby, you huggin up the big monkey man
Aye aye aye, aye aye aye
Tell you baby, you huggin up the big monkey man

Amy Winehouse - Monkey Man - Live at Glastonbury

Friday, February 20, 2009

I feel so sorry for Mitch

He seems to be caring so much guilt. Sure, Amy probably sufffered a lot of his affair, but that was then, and now is the future. I think he has to get over these dark thought and just focus on being a great dad now, which he seems to be.

Amy Winehouse - Know you now - Lyrics

You're just a little boy underneath that hat
You need your nerve to hide your ego – don't come with that
You think everything is handed to you free
But it's not that easy, no

I gotta know you now
We may never meet again
I gotta know you now and then

My girl says I'm too sensitive to ride with you
But I'm not listening to her, mm hm
Yes I'm perceptive so when I've dance with you you'll whisk your head back the way it were
As you were

I gotta know you now
We may never meet again
I gotta know you now and then

Oh, I'm not ruling you out
I'm just in doubt as to what you say you're all about, yeah

I gotta know you now
We may never meet again
I gotta show you now and them
I gotta know you now and then


I gotta know you now
We may never meet again

Amy Winehouse - Me & mr Jones - Live at BBC

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Amy back to UK

Perez has written that Amy's heading back to UK to handle the divorce. Anyone knows when she's headig back?

Amy Winehouse - In my bed - Lyrics

In my bed is a song from Amy's first album Frank that is about when two people are having sex and one of them thinks the other one has feelings for him or her, although the person don't.

--

Wish I could say it breaks my heart
like you did in the beginning
Its not that we grew apart
a nightingale no longer singing

Its something I know you cant do
seperate sex with emotion
I sleep alone the sun comes up
your still clinging to that notion

Every thing is slowing down
river of no return
recognise my every sound
there is nothing new to learn

You'll never get my mind right
like 2 ships passing in the night
in the night, in the night
want the same thing where we lay
otherwise mines a different way
a different way from where Im going
oh, its you again listen this isnt a reunion
so sorry if i turn my head
yours is a familliar face
but that dont make your place safe
in my bed my bed my bed

I never thought my memory
of what we had could be intruded
but I couldnt let it be
I needed it as much as you did

Now its not hard to understand
why we just speak at night
The only time I hold your hand
is to get the angle right
Everything is slowing down
river of no return
you recognise my every sound
theres nothing new to learn

You'll never get my mind right
like 2 ships passing in the night
in the night in the night
Want the same thing where we lay
otherwise mines a different way
a different way from where im going
Oh, it's you again listen this isnt a reunion
so sorry if I turn my head
yours is a familliar face
but that dont make your place safe
in my bed, my bed, my bed.

Amy Winehouse - Just Friends - Live at Shepherds bush

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Marijuana addict again?

Okay, this worries me. I know that Amy consider herself as clean but it can't be healthy smooking that much weed...

Amy Winehouse - Hey little rich girl (ft Zalon)

Amy Winehouse - I heard love is blind - Lyrics

I heard love is blind is quite a controversial song from Amy's first album Frank. The song is about Amy's perspective on infidelity, something she's talked about in a lot interviews.

--

I couldn’t resist him
His eyes were like yours
His hair was exactly the shade of brown
He’s just not as tall
but I couldn’t tell
It was dark and I was lying down

You are everything
he means nothing to me
I can’t even remember his name
Why’re you so upset?
Baby, you weren’t there
and I was thinking of you when I came

What do you expect?
You left me here alone
I drank so much and needed to touch
Don’t overreact
I pretended he was you
You wouldn’t want me to be lonely

How can I put it so you understand?
I didn’t let him hold my hand
But he looked like you
I guess he looked like you
No he wasn’t you
But you can still trust me,
this ain’t infidelity
It’s not cheating
you were on my mind

Yes he looked like you
But I heard love is blind…

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

It's war!

Amy has decided not to offer Blake the large sum of money in the divorce. She's going to fight him! Good for you Amy! He's not worth a penny!

Amy Winehouse - Cupid - Live at Glastonbury

Amy Winehouse - He can only hold her - Lyrics

He can only hold her is about when someone is still inlove with her or his ex and, the new partner only can have the girl for a moment.

--

He can only hold her for so long
The lights are on but noone's home
She's so vacant
Her soul is taken
He thinks "What she's running from?"
Now, how can he have her heart
When it got stole
So he tries to pacify her
Because whats inside her never dies

Even if she's content in his warmth
She is played with urgency
Searching kisses
The man she misses,
The man that he longs to be

Now how can he have her heart
When it got stole
So he tries to pacify her
Cause what's inside'll never die
So he tries to pacify her
Cause whats inside her
It never dies
So he tries to pacify her
Cause what's inside her never dies

Monday, February 16, 2009

Get well sweetie!

Have you heard that Amy's collapsed again?

So sad, I hope she can battle her demons and stop with her selfdestructive ways.

Amy Winehouse - Addicted - Live at Glastonbury

Amy Winehouse - Love is a losing game - Lyrics

Love is a losing game is a song about Blake and their breakup. It has a lots of reference to pool as Amy's a fanatic and used to play a lot with Blake. The song has won several awards and is so beautiful!

---

For you I was a flame
Love is a losing game
Five story fire as you came
Love is a losing game

One I wish I never played
Oh what a mess we made
And now the final frame
Love is a losing game

Played out by the band
Love is a losing hand
More than I could stand
Love is a losing hand

Self professed profound
Till the chips were down
know you're a gambling man
Love is a losing hand

Though I'm rather blind
Love is a fate resigned
Memories mar my mind
Love is a fate resigned

Over futile odds
And laughed at by the gods
And now the final frame
Love is a losing game

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Amy Winehouse - Tears dry on their own - Live at Eurockeenes

Amy Winehouse - Valerie - Live at T in the Park

Amy Winehouse - Round midnigt - Lyrics

Round Midnight is a song about when Amy and Chris ended their relationship. Same theme as "Wake up alone", different guy.

--

It begins to tell,
'round midnight, 'round midnight.
I do pretty well till after sundown,
And suppertime I'm feelin' sad
But it really gets bad,
'round midnight.

Memories always start
'round midnight, 'round
Haven't got the heart to stand those memories,
So when my heart is still with you,
Yes ol' midnight knows it, too.

When a quarrel we had needs mending,
Does it mean that our love is ending.
Darlin' I need you, lately I find
You're out of my heart,
And I'm out of my mind.


So let our hearts take wings
'round midnight, 'round midnight
Let the angels sing,
for your returning.
Till our love is safe and sound.
And old midnight comes around.
Cause I'm feelin' sad,
and it really gets bad
'round midnight, 'round midnight

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Amy Winehouse - Just Friends - Live at Glastonbury

Amy Winehouse - Best Friends - Lyrics

Best Friends is a song about when Amy and her best friend Juliette Ashby was in a fight. Juliette and Amy has been friends since they were four, and shared a flat when they were in their late teens. The song is actually about how rough it was on them living together. You can read a very interesting interview with them both here. Juliette and Amy used to smoke a lot of weed, according to Amy, but Juliette never done hard drugs, and it seemes like they're not as closed as they were. Which I can understand.

Stephanie and Paulette is a reference to the movie Grease, they were two of the pink ladies. When it comes to slang, dro means weed, and Rizla is a paper that Marijuana can be rolled with.

--

I can't wait to get away from you
Unsurprisingly you hate me too
We only communicate when we need to fight
But we are best friends...right?

You're too good at pretending you don't care
There's enough resentment in the air
Now you don't want me in the flat
When you’re home at night
But we're best friends right?

You’re Stephanie and I'm Paulette
You know what all my faces mean
And it's easy to smoke it up, forget
Everything that happened in between

Nicky’s right when he says I can't win
So I don't wanna tell you anything
I can't even think about
How you feel inside
But we are best friends, right?

I don't like the way you say my name
You're always looking for someone to blame
Now you want me to suffer just cause
You was born wide
But we are best friends right?

You’re Stephanie and I'm Paulette
You know what all my faces mean
And its easy to smoke it up, forget
Everything that happened in between

So I had love for you when I was 4
And there's no one I wanna smoke with more
Someday I'll buy the Rizla, so you get the dro.
Cause we are best friends right, right, right, right?
Because we are best friends right?
Because we are best friends right?

Amy Winehouse ft Rolling Stones - Aint to proud to beg - Live at Isle of Wight

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Amy Winehouse - Valerie - Live at AOL

Amy Winehouse introducing her band!

Amy Winehouse - Cherry - Lyrics

Cherry is a song from Amy Winehouses first album Frank. It's about a guitar she got and how much she loved it. She compares it to Chris, that she is quite mad at at the time (as always?). It's a cute, jazzy song, that Amy plays often at concerts.

Her name is Cherry, we just met
But already she knows me better than you
She understands me
After eighteen years
And you still don't see me
Like you ought to do
Maybe we could talk 'bout things
If you was made of wood and strings
While I love her every sound
I dunno how to tune you down
You're so thick and my patience thin
So I got me a new best friend
With a pickup that puts you to shame
And Cherry is her name

And when I'm lonely, Cherry's there
And she plays along while I sing out my blues
I could be crying and you don't care
You won't call me back
You're stubborn as a mule
Maybe we could talk 'bout things
If you was made of wood and strings
You might think I've gone too far
I'm talking 'bout my new guitar

Monday, February 9, 2009

Amy Winehouse - Wake up alone - Lyrics

Wake up Alone is a song about Amy's breakup with Blake, and how her life was. She stayed at the house, drank to much and cried a lot. This song is one of my favourites, and I think it's so beautiful live.

...

It's okay in the day I'm staying busy
Tied up enough so I don't have to wonder where is he
Got so sick of crying
So just lately
When I catch myself I do a 180
I stay up clean the house
At least I'm not drinking
Run around just so I don't have to think about thinking
That silent sense of content
That everyone gets
Just disappears soon as the sun sets

This face in my dreams seizes my guts
He floods me with dread
Soaked in soul
He swims in my eyes by the bed
Pour myself over him
Moon spilling in
And I wake up alone

If I was my heart
I'd rather be restless
The second I stop the sleep catches up and I'm breathless
This ache in my chest
As my day is done now
The dark covers me and I cannot run now
My blood running cold
I stand before him
It's all I can do to assure him
When he comes to me
I drip for him tonight
Drowning in me we bathe under blue light

His face in my dreams seizes my guts
He floods me with dread
Soaked in soul
He swims in my eyes by the bed
Pour myself over him
Moon spilling in
And I wake up alone

Amy's going to Jamaica!

Amy really seems to love the caribbean. The record label has fixed a studio for her at Jamaica, so she will be packing her bags and leave St Lucia for another caribbean paradise. We think the new album wil have a lot of ska on it. Don't ya think?

Amy Winehouse - Stronger than me - Live on Jools Holland

Friday, February 6, 2009

Amy's speech at EMA



Ha ha, this is so funny. And she's damn hot here.

God Blake, can you sink any lower?

Blake is contacting Amy's old boyfriends to secure that he gets the most money he can get from Amy. 

Seriously dude. You're ruining your own reputation. Loooser. 

Amy Winehouse - Back to Black - Live at Glastonbury

Amy Winehouse - I heard love is blind - Live at AOL

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Amy Winehouse - Best Friends

Gorgeous Alex!

Amy's ex Alex Claire, aka Alexander G Muertos, is really good, don't you think? I totally love his voice!

Amy Winehouse - Some unholy war - Live at BBC

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Amy Winehouse - Tears dry on their own - Live at Glastonbury

Amy Winehouse - He can only hold her - Live at Glastonbury

Amy Winehouse - Back to Black - Lyrics

Back to black that gave Amy's second album it's name, was actually written by Marck Ronson. He played it for her, she totally loved it and wrote the lyrcis.

The song is about her and Blakes break up in 2006 and the hard time following it. Blake went back to his old girl friend while Amy got really depressed, started drinking very much and sitting around her apartment smoking weed. Amy says that this was the worst time of her life, but also very productive as almost all the songs on Back to Black was written at this time. The song Back to Black can be seen as a song that explains the rest of the Back to Black album.

A question that is often asked in forums are what "You love blow and I love puff" means. It's actually about their drug habbits. Blake loved blow, i.e. cocaine, and Amy loved puff, i.e. weed. Amy actually was strongly against hard drugs before marrying Blake.

Another sentence people is asking about, is "Life is like a pipe, and I'm a little penny rolling up against the walls". This is a reference to a crack pipe and a crack ball.

"We only said goodbye with words" is a very strong sentence that shows that they never stoped loving eachother, although they broke up.

--

He left no time to regret
Kept his dick 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

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

I go back to us

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

We only said goodbye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
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, black, black, black, black, black, black,
I go back to
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

We only said goodbye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to black

Monday, February 2, 2009

Betty Boop tattoo

I've read several times that the first tattoo Amy got was a Betty Boop tattoo on the back when she was 15. Although I've never seen it. Anyone know the story? Did she cover it with another tattoo?

Amy Winehouse - Rehab - Live at BRITs

Amy Winehouse - Fuck me pumps - Live at Baden