Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

You love blow and I love puff

English answer:

cocaine, marijuana

Added to glossary by Giordano B (X)
Aug 4, 2011 10:22
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English term

You love blow and I love puff

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AMY WINEHOUSE

"Back To Black"

He left no time to regret
Kept his dick wet
With his same old safe bet
Me and my head high
And my tears dry
Get on without my guy
You went back to what you knew
So far removed from all that we went through
And I tread a troubled track
My odds are stacked
I'll go back to black

We only said goodbye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to.....

I go back to us

I love you much
It's not enough
You love blow and I love puff
And life is like a pipe
And I'm a tiny penny rolling up the walls inside

We only said goodbye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to

We only said goodbye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to

Black, black, black, black, black, black, black,
I go back to
I go back to

We only said good-bye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to

We only said good-bye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to black

Responses

+9
11 mins
Selected

cocaine, marijuana

Considering who the song's by and about these seem the most likely interpretations.
Blow is a slang term used for cocaine (although in the past it was also used to refer to marijuana or hashish)
Puff is a slang term used in the UK to refer to marijuana.
Peer comment(s):

agree Louisa Berry : damn too slow with my references
6 mins
agree ClaraVal
8 mins
agree Jim Tucker (X)
21 mins
agree Paul Lambert : Yes, correct. BTW, a nice song isn't it? She was a real class act.
26 mins
agree Lindsay Spratt
57 mins
agree Michael Barnett
2 hrs
agree P.L.F. Persio
3 hrs
agree Rachel Fell : agree with Paul L. too
11 hrs
agree vierama
21 hrs
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+2
6 mins

we like different (opposite, contradictory) things

I think that's probably all it means, unless it has obscene connotations ("blow" meaning "blow job" and "puff" having some other sexxual connotation which escapes me), but I don't think that's likely.
Peer comment(s):

agree akkek : I agree with the interpretation. The actual words used refer to drugs. "Blow" refers to cocaine, and "puff" refers to marijuana | as a community interpreter I can't afford such ignorance :)
23 mins
Thank you. I am happily ignorant of drug abusers' terminology.
agree P.L.F. Persio
3 hrs
Тhank you.
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+2
17 mins

blow = cocaine and puff = pot (cannabis)

I think this is a drug reference as blow and puff are slang for cocaine and cannabis, at least in UK English.

see http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/6519175...

and http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/6521761...


The meaning of the lyrics is discussed here

http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858634215/
Peer comment(s):

agree P.L.F. Persio
3 hrs
agree Thuy-PTT (X)
3 days 19 hrs
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4261 days

Puff

Puff and black are both slang words for heroin. Black because of its color when it comes in “tar” form, and puff because of puff the magic dragon. Puff mostly refers to people who smoke heroin.
Example sentence:

She smokes puff.

She prefers black

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