At 3:53 pm on July 23, 2011, Amy Winehouse was found lifeless in her London home. A mix of drugs and alcohol, mainly the latter, exhausted the physique of the most promising jazz singer of the 2000s, ending her life and career. Born on September 14, 1983, Love is a losing game is perhaps one of the most representative songs of Amy Winehouse’s music: a poignant soul ballad that tells of a profound disillusionment of love . Love is a losing game, love is disillusionment
Love is a losing game is part of Amy’s second album, Back to black (2006), the album that launched her as an international singer and positioned her as one of the emerging stars of contemporary jazz. A unique, warm, deep and suffering voice, and lyrics that tell her tormented heart about her.
“Love is a losing game,” sings Amy in Love is a losing game. The metaphor of love as a painful gamble supports the whole song. “Before you I was a flame, a fire five stories high.” Then, however, everything collapses. “Though I’ve fought blindly / love and a resigned fate / memories ruin my mind.” The discussions at this point are futile: «We have been mocked by the gods, and the final frame is that love is a game in which we lose», thus concludes the song. Her relationship with Blake Fielder-Civil
The burning sentiment Amy Winehouse sings about is a perfect description of her tormented relationship with her husband About her Blake Fielder-Civil, with whom she was married from 2007 to 2009. It was he who introduced her to drug use, as he confessed several times after his death, regretting it bitterly. «I’m nothing without my husband – she said Amy – I love him so much that sometimes it hurts. I owe him everything. Without him I would be nothing. I can’t beat drugs without him, and my rock. I know I need help, but Blake is the only one who can help me, I don’t want to lose him, I won’t lose him. ‘ Instead, the divorce happened shortly after, he found another partner and Amy started another troubled relationship with director Reg Traviss, which did not go through. Love, for Amy Winehouse, was a losing game. Love is a losing game
for you I was the flame
love is a losing game
Five story fire as you came
Love is losing game
One I wished, I never played
Oh, what a mess we made
And now the final frame
Love is a losing game
Played out by the band
Love is a losing hand
More than I could stand
Love is a losing hand
Self-professed profound
Till the chips were down
Know you’re a gambling man
Love is a losing hand
Though I battled blind
Love is a fate resigned
Memories mar my mind
Love is a fate resigned
Over futile odds
And laughed at by the gods
And now the final frame
Love is a losing gameLa traduzione
Per te, io ero una fiamma
love is a losing game
A five story high fire when you came
love and a losing game
Cause I wish I’d never played
Oh what a mess we made
and now the final frame is that
love and a losing game
Played by
the band love is a losing hand
more than I could bear
love and a losing hand
Said to be a deep person
until the cards were turned
I know you love gambling
but love is a losing hand
though i’ve fought blindly
love and a resigned fate
memories ruin my mind
love and a resigned destiny
Our futile discussions are over
We have been mocked by the Gods
and now the final frame is that
love is a game in which we lose. by Chiara Fossati
