Back To Black

@ChloeHowells This particular lyric in this song guts me when I hear it, and I like your interpretation. I miss her too, hard to believe it's nearly 9 years now...

@o m f g its leti Her "odds" are stacked, not "arms". but I still think your pretty spot on, she was probably more of an alcoholic, pothead and heroin preference of downers. Basically at odds with the uppers her lover preferred.

good insight :)

He left no time to regret (leaving her etc)<br /> Kept his dick wet (With the woman he went back to)<br /> With his same old safe bet <br /> (He kept his ex he went back 2as a backup in case didnt go right with amy)<br /> <br /> Me and my head high (to appear like its not affecting her,trying to cope)<br /> And my tears dry (cried so much till she couldn't cry anymore)<br /> Get on without my guy (trying to move on without him)<br /> You went back to what you knew (he knew his ex well that he went bak 2, a girl that he knew wood get bak together with him)<br /> <br /> So far removed from all that we went through (He put everything amy and him had, memories etc, in the back of his mind like it all never happened;heart on his sleeve)<br /> <br /> And I tread a troubled track (Shes saying from the shock of it, she knows she's gonna head towards a life of drugs and drinking)<br /> <br /> My odds are stacked (she can't lean to no other choice)<br /> I'll go back to black (she'll head back to depression which leads to drinkn and drugs)<br /> <br /> We only said goodbye with words (said goodbye with no emotions,much thought,etc)<br /> I died a hundred times (reality hit her which brought her to despair, could also refer to drug use and 'killing herself' to not feel the pain, as in the drugs take it away)<br /> You go back to her (self explanitory)<br /> And I go back to.....<br /> I go back to us (She thinks back to the memories they shared)<br /> I love you much <br /> It's not enough (all the love she could offer wasn't enough to make him stay)<br /> You love blow and I love puff (He loves cocaine,which could also infer the possibility he did that with his ex, and amy,loves pot whicj may not seem too thrilling to him;could be why he left)<br /> And life is like a pipe (everything n life like a pipe nevver lasts and burns/fades awya)<br /> And I'm a tiny penny rolling up the walls inside (in terms of a 'bad penny' someone or something undesireable,Also the 'penny rolling up the walls' could signify her unstable emotional state. If the penny rolls up, it has to roll back down. Which may signify the up and down highs and lows that you have when you take drugs.)<br /> <br /> We only said goodbye with words<br /> I died a hundred times<br /> You go back to her<br /> And I go back to<br /> <br /> Black, black, black, black, black, black, black,<br /> I go back to<br /> I go back to<br /> <br /> The constant black at the end-in her live concert she says wat it means there, <br /> what can i say (black) life was so exciting (black) smile was so inviting (black)then he kissed me on the cheek (black)with his fingertips (black)sio i bled (black)<br /> saying that like basically is ndull, shes in despair, not worth living when shes cast into his shadows cuz he was her light.<br /> This is what i make of the song because I'm in same situation other than drugs and drinking.but someone who was far gone in it he was the only one she felt saved her from drowning herself in the darkness.I really felt for her because of this song<br /> <br />

or another messed up version i picked out is:<br /> <br /> He left no time to regret<br /> Kept his dick wet<br /> With his same old safe bet<br /> Me and my head high<br /> And my tears dry<br /> Get on without my guy<br /> You went back to what you knew<br /> So far removed from all that we went through<br /> And I tread a troubled track<br /> My odds are stacked<br /> I'll go back to black<br /> <br /> (he was quick to cheating,thus no time to regret)<br /> (she kept her head high sucking it up cuz she knew about it)<br /> he went bak to drugs,what he knew,and nothing else mattered is y he was so far removed)<br /> (she was on a troubled track because she was stuck between a rock and a hard place cuz she loved him but didn't like that he was cheating and going back to black is solitude-hiding her heart instead of having the light of his love)<br /> <br /> We only said goodbye with words<br /> I died a hundred times<br /> You go back to her<br /> And I go back to.....<br /> I go back to us<br /> <br /> (only said goodbye with words cuz they argued and said things that pushed her away from loving him with everything she had like in the past, she died a hundred times because of his words, lies, etc, then she goes 'bak to us' cuz when he's with her, she loves him too much to leave.)<br /> <br /> I love you much<br /> It's not enough<br /> You love blow and I love puff<br /> And life is like a pipe<br /> And I'm a tiny penny rolling up the walls inside<br /> <br /> (she loves him so much but its not enough to keep him with only her, cocaine is a drug that usually involves sexual activity, so she sang he loves blow and she likes pot, pot is much milder than cocaine in the 1st place. life is like a pipe as i said earlier is because everything in life(the pipe) it never lasts, burns away/fades. again with the penny rolling up the pipe-in terms of a 'bad penny' someone or something undesireable,Also the 'penny rolling up the walls' could signify her unstable emotional state. If the penny rolls up, it has to roll back down. Which may signify the up and down highs and lows that you have when you take drugs.)<br /> <br /> <br /> We only said goodbye with words<br /> I died a hundred times<br /> You go back to her<br /> And I go back to<br /> Black, black, black, black, black, black, black,<br /> I go back to<br /> I go back to<br /> <br /> but again between the "blacks" in her live song; The constant black at the end-in her live concert, <br /> what can i say (black) life was so exciting (black) smile was so inviting (black)then he kissed me on the cheek (black)with his fingertips (black)sio i bled (black)<br /> <br /> how it all started it was like a fairy tale, the kiss on the cheek with his fingertips he probably beat her up thus the last part so i bled black. or he just said he loved her touched her face like nothing was going on even tho she new and the bleeding black is the sorrow and pain she felt from him never telling her the truth and saying he loved her

I see the blow/puff line differently. She says "I love you much, It;s not enough" just before that. I think what she is that she has a weed habit and he a coke habit. <br /> It just hit me. She could be saying that she has a weed habit, which isn't good, but he has a coke habit which is much worse. She already has drug and other issues and is drowning on her own. If she is with him and he keeps up the coke use, she can't be with him because he'll take him down with her (because she is vulnerable like that). <br /> <br /> to piggyback on your pipe interpretation, that's her way of saying because of her own issues, she "treads a troubled track". She is the penny rolling up a wall that will fall again. Again, his issues are worse than hers, so if she stays with him, it will be bad for her. So, she loves him but can't be with him because they aren't good for each other. But if she stays and he goes to his drug use (go back to her), she will become depressed and go back to black.

this is exactly my interpretation!!! :):) really well noticed on the vid, as it could be mistaken for her lover dying, or she could be burying him, and also her heart?! x