🎶 Take It Back

Verse 1

[Eb]I'm not a rapper; I'm a singer with a flow I've got a habit of spitting quicker
lyrics you know
You found me rippi[B#]ng the writtens out of the pages they sit in
and I[A#] never want to get bitten because plagiarism is hidden
Watch how[Eb] I sit on the rhythm, prisoner with a vision Signs of LA, but didn't
listen to any criticism
[B#]Thought you knew but you didn't so perk your ears up and listen
[A#]Studio with a system and you could say that I'm driven
[Eb]And now it's on to the next saga we drink the best lager, I never tried to
win you over like your stepfather
[B#]I do my own thing now, and get respect after
[A#]And I'm avoiding cocaine like it was Get Carter
[Eb]For four years I never had a place to stay but it's safe to say that it
kept me grounded like a paperweight
[B#]At 16 years old I moved out of my home
[A#]I was Macy Gray I tried to say goodbye and I choked
[Eb]And we've been sleeping at the subway station, sleeping with a movie star and
adding to the population
[B#]Not my imagination, I don't want to relax
[A#]But would it hurt your reputation,if I put it on wax? So take it back now...


(Hook)
[Eb]Come on and take it back no[B#]w
[A#]Come on and take it back now
[Eb]Dont you fade into the back now [B#] [A#]


Verse 2:
[Eb]Take it back with the rhythm and blues and my back pack I'll be singing the news,
trying to act like Jack Black when I bring them to school
[B#]I'll make a beat with my feet by just singing a loop,
[A#]bringing the lyrics to prove that I can fit in these shoes,
[Eb]and keeping the truth through the vocal booth, stars burst out on the scene like an
opal fruit,
[B#]they try and take aim like beckham when he goes to shoot,
[A#]but then again that's what they're supposed to do,
and [Eb]I'm supposed to be calm,I tattooed the lyrics onto my arm, whispering everything
that happens is from now on,
[B#]I'll be willing to start again at the end of the sonG
[A#]still they think I handled it wronG
[Eb]but then I never had an enemy, except for NME, but I'll be selling twice as many copies
as the magazines will ever be,
[B#]and got me spectacles ahead of me and festival fees,
[A#]to help me with a Dalmatian, no pedigree
[Eb]singing for the masses, rubber dinghy rapids,keep this rapping a habit and keep on
passioning magic,
[B#]I'm battling for the respect,
[A#]I don't know if I'll have it, this songs from the heart, grabbing the plaque I'll
take it back now

(Hook)
[Eb]Mmm, come on and take it [B#]back, love
[A#]Come on and take it back for us
[Eb]Don't you fade into the [B#]back, love [A#]

Verse 3:
[Eb]I don't ever want to be perfect, Cause I'm a singer that you never want to see shirtless
[B#]I accept the fact that someone has to win the worst-dressed,
[A#]Taking my first steps into the scene, giving me focus
[Eb]Putting on a brave face, like Timothy Dalton,considering a name change,thinking it
was hopeless
[B#]Rhyming over recordings Avoiding tradition
[A#]Cause every day some lyrics and a melody can be written
[Eb]Now absence can make your heart ache But drinking absinthe can change your
mind-state, vividly, I need to let my liver be
[B#]And I say it again,
[A#]Living life on the edge,with a closed hand full of friends
[Eb]Is good advice from a manwho took his life on the road with me
And I hope to see him blowing up globally
[B#]Cause that's how it's supposed to be screaming out vocally
[A#]Might seem totally impossible achieving life's dreams
[Eb]But, but I just write schemesI'm never having a stylist, giving me tight jeans
[B#]Madison Square Garden is where I might be, But more likely,
[A#]You'll find me in the back room of a dive bar with my mates
[Eb]Having a pint with McDaid, Discussing records we made And every single second knowing
that we'll never betray
[B#]The way we were raised Remembering our background
[A#]Sat down That's how we put it out; it's time to take it back now


(Hook) (x2)
[Eb]Come on and take it back [B#]now
[A#]Come on and take it back now
[Eb]Don't you fade into the back now [B#] [A#]

Verse 4:
[Eb]My dreams keep me awake at night, Written in rhymes, and lies, deliver the hype
Am I just living the lie
[B#]With this you must know that the number's just sold woah
[A#]Will keep me going through the tough times, dream with me
[Eb]We forget 90 per cent of it when we wake But the other 10 per cent it never fades
[B#]Dreaming dreams, day to day goals Stay awake loads,
try to [A#]make the cut like the paper or razor blade,
never give [Eb]up And just remember just to hold out more A couple years ago I couldn't
just control that thought
You'd find me [B#]buskin' on the street when it was cold outdoors
And now I'm [A#]sweating on the stage With the sold out tours
Writing [Eb]love songs for the sake of it Never to make a hit, You can't fake
talent and work ethic just to make it quick
[B#]I'm not a rapper I'm a singer, I just take the piss and
[A#]Most of these other guys are guys that pose His little sister has to
[Eb]babysit, that's just a way it is Dreams you own,just set your goals
And have the utmost faith in it
tread your own [B#]path You'll never make it as a follower,
[A#]you'll never know where you will go or where you will be tomorrow [Eb] ⠀⠀