Take It Back Lyrics - Ed Sheeran

1 I'm not a rapper; I'm a singer with a flow

2 I've got a habit of spitting

3 Quicker lyrics you know

4 You found me ripping the writtens

5 Out of the pages they sit in

6 And never once I get bitten

7 Because plagiarism is hidden

8 Which I would sit on the rhythm

9 Prisoner with a vision

10 Signs of a label, but didn't listen to any criticism

11 Thought you knew but you didn't

12 So perk your ears up and listen

13 Studio is a system

14 And you could say that I'm driven

15 And now it's on to the next saga

16 We drink the best lager

17 I never tried to win you over

18 Like your stepfather

19 I do my own thing now, and get respect after

20 And I'm avoiding cocaine like it was Get Carter

21 For four years I never had a place to stay

22 But it's safe to say that it kept me grounded like a paperweight

23 At 16 years old, yeah I moved out of my home

24 I was Macy Gray I tried to say goodbye and I choked

25 To make from sleeping at the subway station

26 To sleeping with a Movie star and adding to the population

27 Not my imagination, I don't wanna relax

28 Would it hurt your reputation

29 If I put it on wax?

30 I'll take it back now...

31 Mmmm c'mon and take it back love,

32 C'mon and take it back for us

33 Don't you fade into the back love

34 No

35 Take it back with the rhythm and blues

36 With my rap pack I'll be singing the news,

37 Trying to act like Jack Black when I bring 'em to school

38 I'll make a beat with my feet by just hitting a loop,

39 Bringing the lyrics to prove that I can fit in these shoes,

40 I give you the truth through the vocal booth,

41 Stars burst out on the scene like an opal fruit,

42 They try and take aim like Beckham when he goes to shoot,

43 But then again that's what they're supposed to do,

44 And I'm supposed to be calm,

45 I tattooed the lyrics onto my arm,

46 Whispering everything that happens is from now on,

47 I'll be ready to start again at the end of the song,

48 Still their claiming that I handled it wrong,

49 But then I never had an enemy, except for NME,

50 But I'll be selling twice as many copies as the magazines will ever be,

51 With only spectacles ahead of me and festival fees,

52 I'm healthier than a Dalmatian on Pedigree,

53 Singing for the masses,

54 Rubber dinghy rapids,

55 Keep this rapping a habit

56 And keep on passioning magic,

57 I'm battling for respect,

58 I don't know if I'll have it,

59 This songs from the heart,

60 Cover the planet

61 I'll take it back now

62 Mmmm c'mon and take it back love,

63 C'mon and take it back for us

64 Don't you fade into the back love

65 No

66 Take it back now

67 Now I don't ever want to be perfect,

68 Cause I'm a singer that you

69 Never want to see shirtless

70 And I accept the fact that someone has to win worst-dressed,

71 Taking my first steps into the scene,

72 Giving me focus

73 Putting on a brave face, like Timothy Dalton

74 Considering a name change,

75 Thinking it was hopeless

76 Rhyming over recordings

77 Avoiding tradition

78 Cause every day some lyrics

79 And a melody can be written

80 Now absence can make your heart break

81 But drinking absinthe can change your mind-state, vividly,

82 I need to let my liver be

83 And I say it again,

84 Living life on the edge,

85 With a closed hand full of friends

86 Is good advice from a man

87 Who took his life on the road with me

88 And I hope to see him blowing up globally

89 Cause that's how it's supposed to be

90 I'm screaming out vocally

91 It might seem totally impossible

92 Achieving life's dreams

93 But, but I just write schemes

94 I'm never having a stylist, giving me tight jeans

95 Madison Square Garden is where I might be

96 But more likely,

97 You'll find me in the back

98 Room of a dive bar with my mates

99 Having a pint with McDaid

100 Discussing records we made

101 And every single second knowing

102 That we'll never betray

103 The way we were raised

104 Remembering our background

105 Sat down

106 That's how we plan it out;

107 It's time to take it back now

108 Mmmm c'mon and take it back love,

109 C'mon and take it back for us

110 Don't you fade into the back love

111 No

112 Mmmm c'mon and take it back love,

113 C'mon and take it back for us

114 Don't you fade into the back love

115 No

116 My dreams keep me awake at night

117 Written in rhymes, 'til I deliver the hype

118 Am I just living the lie

119 With this you must know that the number's just sold whoa

120 Will keep me going through the tough times, dream with me

121 We forget 90 per cent of it when we wake

122 But the other 10 per cent it never fades

123 Dreaming dreams, day to day goals

124 Stay awake loads, try to make the cut like the

125 Paper or razor blade, oh, never give up

126 And just remember just to hold out more

127 A couple years ago

128 I couldn't just control that thought

129 You'd find me buskin' on the street

130 When it was cold outdoors

131 And now I'm sweating on the stage of a sold out tour

132 Writing love songs for the sake of it

133 Never to make a hit

134 You can't fake talent and work ethic just to make it quick

135 I'm not a rapper I'm a singer, I just take the piss and

136 Most of these other guys are kids that pose

137 His little sister has to babysit, that's just a way it is

138 Dreams you own, just set your goals

139 And have the utmost faith in it; tread your own path

140 You'll never make it as a follower, you'll never know

141 Where you will go or where you will be tomorrow