 Genius Meanings
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Amy Winehouse – Know You Now
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[Verse 1] / You're just a little boy underneath that hat / You need the nerve to hide your ego, don't come with that / You think everything gets handed to you free / But it's not
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Amy Winehouse – Know You Now (Leicester Summer Sundae 2004)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / You're just a little boy underneath that hat / You need the nerve to hide your ego, don't come with that / You think everything gets handed to
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Amy Winehouse – You Know I'm No Good
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In the quintessential Winehouse track “You Know I’m No Good,” Amy uses her drug and alcohol use to justify her infidelity in a relationship. The track is quite telling of Amy’s
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Amy Winehouse – Take the Box
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“Take the Box” details the tremendously specific encounter that Amy had with her ex-boyfriend, Chris Taylor, following their breakup. In an effort to cleanse herself of Taylor and
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Amy Winehouse – Love Is a Losing Game
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In the haunting ballad “Love Is a Losing Game,” Winehouse reflects over her painful moments of loneliness and confusion, as well as her inability to rewrite history and change how
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Amy Winehouse – You Know I'm No Good (Live Jo Whiley, BBC Live Lounge Session / 2007)
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[Verse 1] / Meet you downstairs, in the bar and hurt / Your rolled up sleeves and your skull t-shirt / You say "What did you do with him today?" / And sniffed me out like I was
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Amy Winehouse – Rehab
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“Rehab,” the leading single off of Back To Black, arguably put Winehouse on the international map. The song is a hauntingly ironic, upbeat tune where Winehouse refuses to go to a
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Amy Winehouse – Intro / Stronger Than Me
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“Stronger Than Me” tackles Winehouse’s back-and-forth experience with her early partner Chris Taylor. The two dated on and off before Winehouse came to the decision that Taylor
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Amy Winehouse – October Song (T in the Park 2004)
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[Verse 1] / Today, my bird flew away / Gone to find her big blue jay / Starlight before she took flight / I sang her "Lullaby of Birdland" every night / I sang a lullaby every
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Amy Winehouse – Lullaby of Birdland (Live From The Stables / 2004)
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Lullaby of bird-land / That's what I always hear when you sigh / Never in my word-land could there be ways to reveal / In a phrase, how I feel / Have you ever heard two turtledoves
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Amy Winehouse – I Should Care (Live From The Stables / 2004)
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I should care / I should go around weepin' / I should care / I should go without sleepin' / Strangely enough, I sleep well / Except for a dream or two / But, then I count my sheep
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Amy Winehouse – Back to Black
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Ranked as the #98 best song of the 2000’s, “Back to Black” details the harsh reality Winehouse faced after her then-boyfriend, Blake Fielder-Civil, ended their relationship to
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Amy Winehouse – Moody's Mood For Love / Teo Licks
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This is the sixth track on Amy Winehouse’s debut album Frank.
This is a cover of James Moody’s 1952 song Moody’s Mood For Love.
A few of the lyrics on Winehouse’s version are
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Amy Winehouse – Just Friends (Big Band Special 2009)
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Amy Winehouse – In My Bed (T in the Park 2004)
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[Verse 1] / Wish I could say it breaks my heart / Like you did in the beginning / It's not that we grew apart / A nightingale no longer singin' / It's something I know you can't do
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The Specials – You're Wondering Now
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Is everybody happy? / Knock, knock, knock, knock / You can't come in / Knock, knock, knock / You can't come in / You're wondering now / What to do, now you know this is the end
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Amy Winehouse – He Can Only Hold Her / Doo Wop (That Thing) [Live At Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London / 2007]
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Part I: "He Can Only Hold Her" / [Verse 1: Amy Winehouse] / He can only hold her for so long / The lights are all on, but no one's home / She's so vacant, her soul is taken / He
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Amy Winehouse – I Heard Love Is Blind
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“I Heard Love Is Blind” unapologetically tackles the themes of infidelity and whimsically cheating on one’s partner.
Winehouse, who has stated that the song does not reenact a
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Amy Winehouse – You're Wondering Now
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[Chorus] / You're wondering now what to do / Now you know this is the end / You're wondering how you will pay / For the way you misbehaved / [Verse] / First time, I swallowed / Now
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Amy Winehouse – Tears Dry on Their Own
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Written in Miami with producer Salaam Remi, “Tears Dry On Their Own” has grown to become one of the most recognisable songs in Winehouse’s discography. During an undated interview
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Amy Winehouse – Cherry
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“Cherry” is an ode to Amy’s beloved guitar, most likely given the name due to its colour. The song personifies Cherry, playing her out as a real person in Amy’s life.
Amy with
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Amy Winehouse – He Can Only Hold Her
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“He Can Only Hold Her” by Amy Winehouse is a song about a time when she was in a relationship that she wasn’t completely invested in because she missed her last lover.
This song
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Amy Winehouse – You Sent Me Flying
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“You Sent Me Flying,” the second track off Winehouse’s debut album Frank, narrates Winehouse’s inadequate and vulnerable affection for a man much older than her. The more she
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