Album: Back to Black (2006)

Charted: 18 77

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• 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 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 the place, but I can't get joy
  Thinkin' on you in the final throws
  This is when my buzzer goes
  Run out to meet your, chips and pita
  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 soap my feet
  Then you notice likkle carpet burn
  My stomach drop 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 (I'm no good) Writer/s: Amy Winehouse
  Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 9

• George Pope from Vancouver - CanadaI just love how she has this smoky old jazz bar sound. . . & that the music industry saw fit to promote her anyway. . . very nice throwback sound. She was into the '50s & '60s Motown scene -- she was a girl way older than her years -- thus Moore over Connery (& the rhyming trouble with the latter, certainly)
• Sick And Tired from MissouriFor the Roger Moore reference I believe most people are mistaken. It is not the Moore who often starred in the original TV series Maverick as well as 007 in several Bond movies .it is the writer/editor Roger Moore of the Dungeons & Dragons role playing game world. Winehouse was an aspiring fantasy writer and submitted several poeces. As editor, Roger Moore tore her down on several occasions until she gave up this style of writing, at least so the stories go, and turned her talent towards song writing. The reference fits in both instances, but truth is often stanger than fiction.
• R from K'The English actor quipped that he had no idea why Winehouse chose to include him in the lyrics, unless she wanted a word that rhymed with "door"- the Roger Moore reference refers to another Sir or more appropriately Lord in Amy's life. Roger Moore is his favourite James Bond. Have you watched the video, who do you think the actor is portraying? I'll give you a hint, he is 6'2 and is the subject of Amy's "Some Unholywar." They've been seen together in London occasionally. When another musical artist talked bad publicly about Amy after her passing, he rolled up in a Tesla S model before the car was even released and warned said person. The Tesla had "006" on the license plate. He's also in Black to Black and is rumored to have worked with Adele. They say he is pretty wealthy as well and highly decorated. He makes a shadowy appearance in Amy's Back to Black video.
• Megan from Stevenson, AlOh my...I love this dang song!!! She was a true artist with such talent...something the world didn't have enough of!
• Ryan from Nashville, TnLol. Too bad Don from San Antonio has no taste in music. Maybe he'll learn to appreciate talent some day.
• S from New Bern, NcIt makes sense that Ghostface Killah did a remix with this song...when I first heard I'm No Good, it reminded me of the WuTang Clan song "Gravel Pit." My boyfriend and I actually fought because he thought it was the same bass line, it's not, very similar though.
• Tiffany from Little Rock, ArI'm amazed this song wasn't the first released in the US. The beat is so recognizable if you remember House of Pain, and there's much more range of singing in this song than in "Rehab". This was the first Amy song I'd ever heard and was addicted (pun intended) since.
• Zoe from York, Afghanistanwhat charlie here said was mean.mabe don was being sarcastic or over exaggerating but thet doesnt give you any resaon to tell him to go off the deep end
• Don from San Antonio, TxI'm sorry, that Ghostface-whatever dude sucks. Makes me think of the time The Police blew Kanye West offstage when he rapped with them. Back To Black gave me hope for talent again, but then they HAD to end it with THIS. WHY?! Did you think you weren't gonna be able to sell the record without rap on it somewhere? Is there ANY escape from rap, OTHER than suicide?

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