Back In Black Chords

Lady sang the blues: why Amy Winehouse shouldn't be remembered for Rehab

On the surface, it was a song about letting go of a lover who always belonged to another woman.

But scratch just a bit deeper , and it tells us more of how the woman beneath the beehive saw herself and her place in the world.

"And I tread a troubled track, my odds are stacked, I go back to black." Listening to it now, you can't help but wonder if she was talking about more than just a love affair gone sour.

In the black-and-white video , Winehouse leads a funeral procession....for her own heart.

Back to Black sounds like the most confessional song of a very confessional album -- seemingly a paradox given it's one of a few tracks Winehouse didn't write by herself.

This one she co-wrote with the album's producer Mark Ronson -- a man who described her as his "musical soulmate." And I can't help but wonder if it's precisely Ronson's presence that drew out of her that honesty.

Left to her own devices, Winehouse plays her trick card -- a bit of a clown, all bravado and lewd humour, and t hings rhyming with "tanqueray."

It's like she's saying "My life is a mess, but it's all cool, man."

When faced with the mirror of another songwriter, she turns more honest. She understands the anatomy of pain, the way it works its way into people's hearts, with a surgeon's precision.

"And life, is like a pipe....and I'm a tiny penny rolling up the walls inside"

Should we be remembering Amy for Rehab?