The Relationship behind “Back to Black”īut before we get to that, there is of course the said relationship which has recently been terminated. The union referred to was romantic in nature. More specifically it was between Amy Winehouse and one Blake Fielder-Civil – a name which causes sneers amongst those who are familiar with her personal history. But furthermore, it’s a bit more specific than that. For she is in fact going “back to black”, with the last word in that phrase connoting something negative. And for Winehouse in particular, once again resorting to her own explanation, that would be “drinking and dark times”. However, the lyrics are given a general applicability in that those substances for the most part are never mentioned directly.
