Take it back Ed Sheeran

d 
I'm not a rapper; I'm a singer with a flow I've got a habit of spitting quicker lyrics you know
                  B 
You found me ripping the writtens out of the pages they sit in
     C
and I never want to get bitten because plagiarism is hidden
         d 
Watch how 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
C
Studio with a system and you could say that I'm driven
d 
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
C
And I'm avoiding cocaine like it was Get Carter

d 
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
C
I was Macy Gray I tried to say goodbye and I choked
d 
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
C
But would it hurt your reputation,if I put it on wax? So take it back now...

[Refren]
d                          B 
Come on and take it back now
C
Come on and take it back now
d                                 B   C
Dont you fade into the back now

d 
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,
C
bringing the lyrics to prove that I can fit in these shoes,
d 
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,
C
but then again that's what they're supposed to do,
    d 
and 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,
C
still they think I handled it wrong,
d 
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,
C
to help me with a Dalmatian, no pedigree
d 
singing for the masses, rubber dinghy rapids,keep this rapping a habit and keep on
passioning magic,
B 
I'm battling for the respect,
C
I don't know if I'll have it, this songs from the heart, grabbing the plaque I'll take it back now

[Refren]
d                          B 
Come on and take it back now
C
Come on and take it back now
d                                 B   C
Dont you fade into the back now
Take it back now

d 
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,
C
Taking my first steps into the scene, giving me focus
d 
Putting on a brave face, like Timothy Dalton,considering a name change,thinking it was hopeless
B 
Rhyming over recordings Avoiding tradition
C
Cause every day some lyrics and a melody can be written
d 
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,
C
Living life on the edge,with a closed hand full of friends
d 
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
C
Might seem totally impossible achieving life's dreams
d 
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,
C
You'll find me in the back room of a dive bar with my mates
d 
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
C
Sat down That's how we put it out; it's time to take it back now

[Refren]x2
d                          B 
Come on and take it back now
C
Come on and take it back now
d                                 B   C
Dont you fade into the back now

d 
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
C
Will keep me going through the tough times, dream with me
d 
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,
          C
try to make the cut like the paper or razor blade,
           d 
never give up And just remember just to hold out more A couple years ago I couldn't just control
that thought
               B 
You'd find me buskin' on the street when it was cold outdoors
              C
And now I'm sweating on the stage With the sold out tours
         d 
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
B 
I'm not a rapper I'm a singer, I just take the piss and
C
Most of these other guys are guys that pose His little sister has to
d 
babysit, that's just a way it is Dreams you own,just set your goalsAnd have the utmost faith in it
               B 
tread your own path You'll never make it as a follower,
C                                                                        d 
you'll never know where you will go or where you will be tomorrow