So he's finally free and looks up and he sees the sky and it's amazing, getting him high. [7] The song's lyrical content consists of a sad goodbye to a relationship with the lyrics being frank. 37 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1981 as well as at No. 1 by Amanda Lear", "Music - Amy Winehouse Sung By Amanda Lear (Chanté Par Amanda Lear) - Single", "Who Covered Amy Winehouse Best? Instead, he returns quickly to a former lover. Maybe it's just me but seriously, if u watch the music video it is a funeral so the "back to black" line means, perhaps going back to wearing black clothes for mourning a death, although no one has died its like her lover is dead to her noe that hes gone back to his old girlfriend. And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone Song meanings ©2003-2020 lyricinterpretations.com. [96] Eschewing the 1960s Wall of Sound style of the original, the remake takes a minimalist, synth-heavy approach, with an occasional, echoing guitar twang. They saw Bon's life in that lyric. bring back in black to life!!! He gets over her with the "safe bet" and she fades to black. Yea, I didn't know that AC/DC songs were that hard to understand. Then there is Back in Black – a rock and metal song that appeals to everybody, from dads to dudes, to little old ladies beating noisy kids over the heads with their sticks – and it all hangs on that monumental, no-nonsense, three-chord monster of a riff. The "goodbye with words" shows the breakup without emotion leaving everything unsettled. "Yes I'm in a band, with a gang"
In either case he's saying, I'm out of jail (I'm back on the track)
[5] In America, due to strong digital sales of the single over the years, "Back to Black" was certified platinum for over one million digital sales by the RIAA in January 2015. "back to" suggests that he's done it before but shes forgiven him. The album cover, black as a memorial, so to speak, to Bon.
187 on Rolling Stone's list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Well, there's a reason for the things that I have on It is notable for its opening guitar riff. "You go back to her, I go back to us" He can go back to her but she has nothing to go back to but their relationship because for her there is no one else but him. rewards, status updates and get feedback from our community. The writer went on to praise the "thoroughly modern Amy, who writes her own songs about love and sex and drugs and knows her own mind, but still gets hurt in a way only grown-ups can get hurt". Describe what artist is trying to say in a certain line, whether my interpretation after just listening to it properly and the lyrics is that there is no other woman, I suspect, and I am probably wrong, that she is talking about drugs? Pretty sure it's a romantically lyrical way of saying blacking out or doing lots of drugs/booze.. With a man"
cat's eyes using everyone of them and I'm running wild . Brian wrote those lyrics so how could those lyrics be written before Scott's death by Brian if Brian wasn't even in the band yet. It doesn't have anything to do with accounting or jail....lol. Life lesson:
[10] Matt Harvey from BBC felt that the song owed to the "sonic heritage" of singers Phil Spector and Scott Walker and went on to call it "a tortured monster of a track - Amy displaying the sort of vocal depth that Marc Almond has always dreamed of". However, Mark Ronson, the original producer of the song revealed that he was flattered and honored by the cover version. [113] C. Vernon Coleman of XXL magazine simply described it as "dope". But is there because he's a victim of the time