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.

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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