What Is It About Men

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What Is It About Men by Amy Winehouse

About What Is It About Men

“What is It About Men” is a personal, gut-spilling song about Amy’s feelings towards her own father. She feels she’s bound to end up becoming a mistress to a married man in the future, the same way her father had a mistress while growing up. She feels it’s her “fate” to repeat the cycle and do this herself to another man’s family because of her father. During her performance at the North Sea Jazz Festival in 2004, while addressing the audience, she confirmed that the song was indeed about her father. .

What Is It About Men Lyrics

[00:01.15] Understand
[00:03.44] Once he was a family man
[00:06.41] So surely I would never
[00:08.75] Ever go through it first hand
[00:13.78] Emulate
[00:16.33] All the shit my mother hated
[00:19.26] I can't help but demonstrate
[00:21.65] My freudian fate
[00:26.09] My alibi
[00:28.62] For taking your guy
[00:31.86] History repeats itself
[00:34.47] It fails to die
[00:38.65] An animal
[00:41.36] Aggression is my downfall
[00:44.20] I don't care 'bout what you got
[00:47.27] I want it all
[00:51.13] It's bricked up in my head
[00:54.30] It's shoved under my bed
[00:57.47] And I question myself again
[01:00.95] What is it about men?
[01:04.02] My destructive side
[01:06.71] Has grown a mile wide
[01:09.95] And I question myself again
[01:13.51] What is it about men? What is it about men? (What is it about men?)
[01:22.47] I'm nurturing
[01:25.11] I just wanna do my thing
[01:28.76] And I'll take the wrong man
[01:30.38] As naturally as I sing
[01:35.19] And I'll save my tears
[01:37.97] For uncovering my fears
[01:41.30] Our behavioral patterns
[01:43.23] That stick over the years
[01:47.71] 'Cause it's bricked up in my head
[01:50.91] It's shoved under my bed
[01:54.08] And I question myself again
[01:57.40] What is it about men?
[02:00.15] Now my destructive side
[02:03.25] Has grown a mile wide
[02:06.35] And I question myself again
[02:10.15] What is it about men?
[02:12.78] Ooh, it's bricked up in my head
[02:16.02] And it's shoved under my bed
[02:18.82] And I question myself again
[02:22.53] Now what is it about men?
[02:25.78] My destructive side
[02:28.43] Has grown a mile wide
[02:31.50] And I question myself again
[02:35.02] What is it about men? What is it about men?
[02:40.53]

From the album: Frank (Deluxe Edition)