Just after every C chord, he plucks the G bass note, as sort of a transition.
[Bb] x133xx
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
