Amy Winehouse

Songwriter: Steve Lewinson Amy Winehouse Pete Lewinson Tyler James

[Verse 1]
I don't catch your drift and I don't catch your bait
Need to get my thoughts down but it's getting late
Need to get up now, get my feet on the ground
But the show is so unprepared now

My place so messed up, I tried on some shoes
Should think clear and focus but I've things to do
Glancing at my CD rack, eyes linger on Frank
And I must put that check in the bank

[Chorus]
Try to put me in a room, distraction less
(Anything and everything)
Spare me from work
In the studio I will find a book
(All the time is all you got)
Tempts me to look

Always got something to do, someone to be seeing
Somewhere to be dancing, I'm a weak human being
It's an opportunity, shout till you go blue
Unless I wanna do it, your words go through

Need to buy some cigarettes, can't put it off any longer
Work don't appeal, depression I feel it growing stronger
Maybe when I'm all grown up, I will get it through
But right now I got stuff to do

[Chorus]
Try to put me in a room, distraction less
(Anything and everything)
Spare me from work
In the studio I will find a book
(All the time is all you got)
Tempts me to look
Try to put me in a room, distraction less
(Anything and everything)
Spare me from work
In the studio I will find a book
(All the time is all you got)
Tempts me to look

Gotta get this song down before I leave tonight
But my hair, just does it's own thing and I gotta look alright
And I gotta write a chorus but words allude me now
I have to get this down before I leave somehow

And anyway I be thinkin' to meet you at the station
Guilty 'cause I should be home, damn procrastination
So when they ask me later, I won't tell them how it's going
But now my head is empty and the work load keeps on growing

[Chorus]
Try to put me in a room, distraction less
(Anything and everything)
Spare me from work
In the studio I will find a book
(All the time is all you got)
Tempts me to look
Try to put me in a room, distraction less
(Anything and everything)
Spare me from work
In the studio I will find a book
(All the time is all you got)
Tempts me to look

Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September, 1983 — 23 July, 2011) was an English singer-songwriter known for her immediately recognisable contralto vocal range and soul-jazz style of vocals.

Even at age fourteen, Amy had a breathtakingly unique set of vocals that would propel her into stardom. By age nineteen, she had signed with Simon Fuller’s management company 19 Management. Soon after, she was scouted by Island Record’s A&R representative Darcus Beese and signed over to Island Records. In less than a year, after working closely alongside legendary music producer Salaam Remi, Amy released her debut studio album Frank. The album was praised for its jazz-influenced sound, and earned a nomination for Album of the Year at the 2004 Mercury Music Prize Awards. It rolled out some of Amy’s most notable singles, including “Fuck Me Pumps” and “Stronger Than Me,” the latter of which winning Amy her first Ivor Novello Award in 2004.

Three years after Frank on October 27, 2006, Amy released her sophomore and final studio album Back to Black. The album narrated the ups and downs of Amy’s personal life, most specifically the turmoils she faced with her partner Blake Fielder-Civil. Back to Black saw Amy branch out in terms of genre and production while working with fellow English producer Mark Ronson, who produced five of the eleven tracks featured on the album. Its lead single, “Rehab,” solidified itself as Amy’s staple track, detailing the conversation she had with her management after fears her drinking habits were causing her too much damage. The album’s title track “Back to Black” was released as another single a few months after “Rehab” and unfolded the dark moments that Amy faced after her relationship with Fielder-Civil came to a halt. Despite the album’s immense popularity and four Grammy Award wins, the attention it received, coupled with the incessant touring of the album and pressure placed on her personal life, visibly plunged Amy into her darkest hours that quickly lead to her untimely demise.

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