Ain't No Doubt

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"Ain't No Doubt" is a popular single by Jimmy Nail (with vocals by Sylvia Mason-James).

Seven years after his debut single and album, Jimmy Nail revived his singing career in 1992. Following the massive success of the TV drama Spender, Nail released the single "Ain't No Doubt", written by Nail, Guy Pratt, Danny Schogger and Charlie Dore and produced by Nail, Pratt and Schogger. An instant smash it reached number one on the UK singles chart and stayed there for three weeks in July 1992 to become the most successful of Jimmy Nail's singles.

The lyrics discuss a failing relationship, and the difference between her words and what he believes she means. In the first verse, like in the second, Jimmy Nail provides the females line, by saying; "She says 'it's not you, it's me'", a statement which is cliched in break-ups and is usually considered to be a white lie.

During the lyrics sung by Sylvia Mason-James in the first part of the chorus, phrases such as "I don't want nobody else, I love you", and "there won't be somebody else, and that's true", Jimmy Nail interjects with "she's lying". This line, like many others is simply spoken, not sung.

The second part of the chorus claims that there "Ain't no doubt" that a "woman like you is no good for me".

The second verse has Jimmy Nail speaking the lines of the female character once more; "she says 'it's like in the song, remember? If you love somebody, set them free?'" After he describes her speech, he says "and then she kisses me, and somewhere I hear a door slam. So I say 'fine', and just hope that I'm a better liar than she is," exploring the idea that while she lies in order to keep from hurting him, he does so in order to prove he doesn't care and possibly hurt her in return.