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Just after every C chord, he plucks the G bass note, as sort of a transition.
Bb
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[Verse 1]
Dm
I'm not a rapper, I'm a singer with a flow, I've got a habit of spitting quicker lyrics you know
Bb
You found me ripping the writtens out of the pages they sit in
C
I never want to get bitten because plagiarism is hidden
Dm
Watch how I sit on the rhythm, prisoner with a vision, signed to a label, but didn't listen to any criticism
Bb
Thought you knew but you didn't so perk your ears up and listen
C
Studio is a system and you could say that I'm driven
Dm
And now it's... on to the next saga, we drink the best lager, I never tried to win you over
like your stepfather
Bb
I do my own thing now, and get respect after
C
And I'm avoiding the 'caine like it was Get Carter
Dm
For four years I never had a place to stay but it's safe to say that it kept me grounded like a paperweight
Bb
At 16 years old, yeah, I moved out of my home
C
I was Macy Gray I tried to say goodbye and I choked
Dm
I went from sleeping at a subway station, to sleeping with a movie star and adding to the population
Bb
Not my imagination, I don't want to relax
C
Would it hurt your reputation, if I put it on wax? So take it back now...
[Hook]
Dm
Mmmm
Bb
Come on and take it back, love
C Dm
Come on and take it back for us
Bb
Dont you fade into the back, love
C
No
[Verse 2]
Dm
I take it back with the rhythm and blues, with my rap pack I'll be singing the news,
trying to act like Jack Black when I bring it to school
Bb
I'll make a beat with my feet by just hitting the loop,
C
bringing the lyrics to prove that I can fit in these shoes,
Dm
I give you the truth through the vocal booth, stars burst out on the scene like an opal fruit,
Bb
they try to take aim like beckham when he goes to shoot,
C
but then again that's what they're supposed to do,
Dm
and I'm supposed to be calm, I tattooed the lyrics onto my arm, whispering everything
that happens is from now on,
Bb
I'll be ready to start again at the end of the song,
C
and still they're claiming that I handle it wrong,
Dm
but then I've never had an enemy, except for NME, but I'll be selling twice as many copies
as their magazines will ever be,
Bb C
with only spectacles ahead of me, and festival fees, are healthier than a Dalmatian on pedigree
Dm Bb
singing for the masses, rubber dinghy rapids, I keep this rapping a habit and keep on fashioning magic,
C
I'm battling for respect, and I don't know if I'll have it, this song's from the heart, cover the planet
I'll take it back now
[Hook]
Dm
Mmmm
Bb
Come on and take it back, love
C Dm
Come on and take it back for us
Bb
Dont you fade into the back, love
C
No
I take it back, now
[Verse 3]
Dm
Now, I don't ever want to be perfect, 'cause I'm a singer that you never want to see shirtless
Bb
And I accept the fact that someone's got to win worst-dressed,
C
Taking my first steps into the scene, giving me focus
Dm
Putting on a brave face, like Timothy Dalton, considering a name change, thinking it was hopeless
Bb
Rhyming over recordings, avoiding tradition
C
'Cause every day some lyrics and a melody could be written
Dm
Now absence can make your heart ache, but drinking absinthe can change your mind-state, vividly,
need to let my liver be
Bb
And I'll say it again,
C
Living life on the edge, with a closed hand full of friends
Dm
Is good advice from a man who took his life on the road with me
And I hope to see him blowing up globally
Bb
Cause that's how it's supposed to be, I'm screaming out vocally
C
it might seem totally impossible achieving life's dreams, but
Dm
But I just write schemes, I'm never having a stylist giving me tight jeans
Bb
Madison Square Garden is where I might be, but more likely,
C
You'll find me in the back room of a dive bar with my mates
Dm
Having a pint with McDaid, discussing records we made, and every single second knowing
that we'll never betray
Bb
The way we were raised, remembering our backgrounds
C
Sat down, that's how we plan it out, it's time to take it back now
[Hook] (x2)
Dm
Mmmm
Bb
Come on and take it back, love
C Dm
Come on and take it back for us
Bb
Dont you fade into the back, love
C
No (studio version: Dm)
[Verse 4 (Live)]
Dm
My dreams keep me awake at night, written in rhymes, and I deliver the hype
Am I just living the lie?
Bb
With this you must know that the number's just sold, woah
C
Will keep me going through the tough times, dream with me
Dm
We forget 90 percent of it when we wake, but the other 10 percent, it never fades
Bb
Dreaming dreams and day to day goals, stay awake loads,
C
Try to make the cut like the paper or razor blade, oh, never give up
Dm
And just remember just to hold out more, a couple years ago I couldn't just control
that thought
Bb
You'd find me buskin' on the street when it was cold outdoors
C
And now I'm sweating on the stage of a sold out tour
Dm
Writing 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
Bb
I'm not a rapper I'm a singer, I just take the piss and
C
Most of these other guys are kids that pose, his little sister has to
Dm
babysit, that's just a way it is, dreams are your own, just set your goals and have the utmost faith in it
Bb
Tread your own path You'll never make it as a follower,
C Dm
You'll never know where you will go or you will be tomorrow
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Just after every C chord, he plucks the G bass note, as sort of a transition. Bb x133xx [Verse 1] like your stepfather [Hook] [Verse 2] trying to act like Jack Black when I bring it to school that happens is from now on, as their magazines will ever be, I'll take it back now [Hook] I take it back, now [Verse 3] need to let my liver be And I hope to see him blowing up globally that we'll never betray [Hook] (x2) [Verse 4 (Live)] Am I just living the lie? that thought you can't fake talent and work ethic just to make it quick
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