Week Twelve: Amy Winehouse - "Between the Cheats" - Lioness: Hidden Treasures

Before I forget to mention it elsewhere, I read in the biography written by Mitch Winehouse that when it was time to come up with a name for Amy's label, they looked to a lioness pendant that was given to Amy by her grandmother, and Lioness Records was born. 

It's no secret to anyone that both Blake and Amy cheated on one another throughout the course of dating and their marriage.  It kind of goes back to my post from yesterday, in regards to an addict's reaction to those "feel good" brain chemicals and how love and sex can become just as much of an addiction as any type of drug or alcohol.

In the youtube clip that I selected for this song, the individual who created it compiled some very nice moments between Blake and Amy.  It's touching to know that these seemingly happy times occurred because it would be even more heartbreaking to think that Amy never got some type of legitimate affection from Blake, though she appeared to love him almost unconditionally.  It makes you consider forgiving him for all of the horrible thoughts the press has conjured up about him in your mind...

That is until you come across another youtube clip (included below) that includes his mother, Georgette, who is still trying to convince everyone that Amy introduced Blake to hard drugs.  Mitch speaks very poorly of Georgette in the biography that he wrote, and I honestly did not know much about her up until now.  However, I think I'm siding with Mitch on this one - the woman seems a bit delusional!!

I would die before I divorce ya
I'd take a thousand thumps
For my love
Cause you
Kissed a lucky horseshoe
Stuck it in my boxing glove

Does anyone
Who will listen up
To our victories and dumb defeats
Knows they all take you to the cleaners
If you come between the cheats

Between the cheats
Between the cheats
Between the cheats

My husband is the finest handsome hustler
And he still makes this housewife blush
So I go with him, my hand flicks
I'm sitting on the royal flush

Women drink him in
Swim in him with green eyes
Then go home and cash the chips you've got
And here maybe two
Oh two bottles of
The jack of heart is my jackpot

Between the cheats
Between the cheats
Between the cheats

Cause we all have to lock eyes
And I know my heart beat
There's a winning secret to both
And it's sworn between the cheats

Between the cheats