• Song:

    Take It Back

  • Artist:

    Ed Sheeran

Using barre chords will sound better! 
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Verse 1
Dm
  I'm not a rapper; I'm a singer with a flow

I've got a habit for spitting 

Quicker lyrics you know
             A#
You found me ripping the writtens

Out of the pages they sit in
        C     
I never want to get bitten   
             C/C#
'Cause plagiarism is hidden
            Dm 
Watch how I sit on the rhythm

Prisoner with a vision

Signs of a label, but didn't listen

To any criticism
            A#
Thought you knew but you didn't

So perk your ears up and listen
   C
Studio is a system 
              C/C#
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
A#
  I do my own thing now, and get respect after
C                      C/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
   A#      
At 16 years old, yeah I moved out of my home
      C                            C/C#
I was Macy Gray I tried to say goodbye and I choked
            Dm
I went from sleeping at the subway station
 
To sleeping with a Movie star and adding to the population
            A#
Not my imagination, I don't wanna relax
                       C
Would it hurt your reputation
               C/C#
If I put it on wax?

I'll take it back now


Chorus
Dm       A#
   Mmmm c'mon and take it back love,
C                    C/C#      Dm
   C'mon and take it back for us
          A#                      C
Don't you fade into the back love
 C/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 'em to school
A# 
I'll make a beat with my feet by just hitting a loop,
C                            C/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,
            A#
They try to take aim like Beckham when he goes to shoot,
         C                                     C/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,
        A#
I'll be ready to start again by the end of the song,
              C                          C/C#
Still they're claiming that I handled it wrong,
                        Dm
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, 
A#
  With only spectacles ahead of me and festival fees,
C                      C/C#  
  I'm healthier than a Dalmatian on Pedigree,
Dm
  Singing for the masses,

Rubber dinghy rapids,

I keep this rapping a habit
                       A#
And keep on passioning magic,

I'm battling for respect,

I don't know if I'll have it,
C
  This songs from the heart,
C/C#
  Cover the planet
I'll take it back now


Chorus
Dm       A#
   Mmmm c'mon and take it back love,
C                    C/C#      Dm
   C'mon and take it back for us
          A#                      C
Don't you fade into the back love
 C/C#
No


Verse 3
Dm
  Now I don't ever want to be perfect,

Cause I'm a singer that you

Never want to see shirtless
      A#
And I accept the fact that someone's gotta win worst-dressed,
          C 
Taking my first steps into the scene,
C/C#
Giving me focus
Dm          
Putting on a brave face, like Timothy Dalton

Considering a name change,

Thinking it was hopeless
A#
Rhyming over recordings

Avoiding tradition
            C
Cause every day some lyrics
      C/C#
And a melody can be written
    Dm
Now absence can make your heart break

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

I need to let my liver be
A# 
  And I say it again,
                   C
Living life on the edge,
                           C/C#
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
                      A#
Cause that's how it's supposed to be

I'm screaming out vocally
              C  
It might seem totally impossible
   C/C#
Achieving life's dreams
Dm
  But, but I just write schemes

I'm never having a stylist, giving me tight jeans
               A
Madison Square Garden is where I might be

But more likely,
       C              C/C#
You'll find me in the back
               Dm
Room of a dive bar with my mates
         
Having a pint with McDaid

Discussing records we made

And every single second knowing

That we'll never betray
    A
The way we were raised

Remembering our background

Sat down
C
That's how we plan it out;
C/C#
It's time to take it back now


Chorus
Dm       A#
   Mmmm c'mon and take it back love,
C                    C/C#      Dm
   C'mon and take it back for us
          A#                      C
Don't you fade into the back love
 C/C#
No
Dm       A#
   Mmmm c'mon and take it back love,
C                    C/C#      Dm
   C'mon and take it back for us
          A#                      C
Don't you fade into the back love
 C/C#
No
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