[ti:Take It Back]
[ar:Ed Sheeran]
[al:X (Deluxe Edition)]
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[00:00.30]Take It Back - Ed Sheeran
[00:01.24]I'm not a rapper;
[00:01.89]I'm a singer with a flow
[00:03.00]I've got a habit of spitting
[00:04.02]Quicker lyrics you know
[00:04.75]You found me ripping the writtens
[00:05.93]Out of the pages they sit in
[00:07.02]And never want to get bitten
[00:07.89]Because plagiarism is hidden
[00:08.87]Watch how I sit on the rhythm
[00:10.40]Prisoner with a vision
[00:11.17]Signs of a label
[00:12.05]But didn't listen to any criticism
[00:13.59]Thought you knew but you didn't
[00:14.48]So perk your ears up and listen
[00:15.65]Studio is a system
[00:16.66]And you could say that I'm driven
[00:17.79]And now it's on to the next saga
[00:19.28]We drink the best lager
[00:20.56]I never tried to win you
[00:21.56]Over like your stepfather
[00:22.64]I do my own thing now
[00:23.81]And get respect after
[00:24.75]And I'm avoiding the cane
[00:25.74]Like it was Get Carter
[00:26.89]For four years I never had a place to stay
[00:28.60]But it's safe to say
[00:29.53]That it kept me grounded
[00:30.33]Like a paperweight
[00:31.04]At 16 years old
[00:31.69]Yeah I moved out of my home
[00:32.84]I was Macy Gray
[00:33.50]I tried to say goodbye and
[00:34.55]I choked
[00:34.89]Went from sleeping
[00:35.52]At the subway station
[00:36.35]Sleeping with a movie star
[00:37.28]And adding to the population
[00:38.88]Not my imagination
[00:39.51]I don't want to relax
[00:40.89]But would it hurt your reputation
[00:42.04]If I put it on wax
[00:43.03]So take it back now
[00:45.81]C'mon and take it back love
[00:50.11]C'mon and take it back for us
[00:54.05]Don't you fade into the back love
[00:58.11]Ooooh
[01:00.22]Take it back with the rhythm and blues
[01:01.42]And my back pack
[01:02.20]I'll be singing the news
[01:03.07]Trying to act like Jack Black
[01:04.37]When I bring 'em to school
[01:05.20]I'll make a beat with my feet by
[01:06.35]Just hitting a loop
[01:07.15]Bringing the lyrics to prove
[01:08.11]That I can fit in these shoes
[01:09.30]And keeping the truth
[01:10.02]Through the vocal booth
[01:10.84]Stars burst out on the scene
[01:11.86]Like an opal fruit
[01:13.03]They try and take aim like Beckham
[01:14.17]When he goes to shoot
[01:15.10]But then again
[01:15.56]That's what they're supposed to do
[01:16.72]And I'm supposed to be calm
[01:17.68]I tattooed the lyrics onto my arm
[01:19.09]Whispering everything
[01:19.79]That happens is from now on
[01:21.22]I'll be willing to start again
[01:22.23]By the end of the song
[01:23.23]Still they claim that I handled it wrong
[01:24.46]But then I never had an enemy
[01:26.18]Except for NME
[01:27.03]But I'll be selling twice as many copies
[01:28.40]As the magazines will ever be
[01:29.76]With only spectacles ahead of me
[01:31.12]And festival fees
[01:31.92]And healthier
[01:32.50]Than a Dalmatian on pedigree
[01:34.04]Singing for the masses
[01:35.17]Rubber dinghy rapids
[01:35.77]Keep this rapping a habit
[01:37.01]And keep on passioning magic
[01:37.85]I'm battling with respect
[01:39.00]I don't know if I'll have it
[01:40.24]This songs from the heart
[01:41.14]Cover the planet
[01:41.66]I'll take it back now
[01:44.03]C'mon and take it back love
[01:48.16]C'mon and take it back for us
[01:52.06]Don't you fade into the back love
[01:56.14]Ooooh
[01:58.22]Take it back now
[01:59.12]I don't ever want to be perfect
[02:00.65]Cause I'm a singer that you
[02:01.63]Never want to see shirtless
[02:02.71]I accept the fact
[02:03.63]That someone's got to win worst-dressed
[02:04.84]Taking my first steps into the scene
[02:06.01]Giving me focus
[02:06.90]Putting on a brave face
[02:07.88]Like Timothy Dalton
[02:09.08]Considering a name change
[02:10.20]Thinking it was hopeless
[02:11.11]Rhyming over recordings
[02:12.14]Avoiding tradition
[02:12.78]Cause every day some lyrics
[02:13.81]And a melody can be written
[02:15.01]Now absence can make your heart ache
[02:16.27]But drinking absinthe
[02:16.95]Can change your mind-state vividly
[02:18.39]I need to let my liver be
[02:19.83]And I say it again
[02:20.71]Living life on the edge
[02:21.62]With a closed hand full of friends
[02:22.61]Is good advice from a man
[02:23.48]Who took his life on the road with me
[02:24.95]And I hope to see him
[02:26.10]Blowing up globally
[02:26.99]Cause that's how it's supposed to be
[02:28.15]I'm screaming out vocally
[02:28.97]Might seem totally impossible
[02:30.24]Achieving life's dreams
[02:31.23]But but I just write schemes
[02:32.74]I'm never having a stylist
[02:33.75]Giving me tight jeans
[02:34.88]Madison Square Garden
[02:35.74]Is where I might be
[02:36.69]But more likely
[02:37.55]You'll find me in the back
[02:38.40]Room of a dive bar with my mates
[02:39.64]Having a pint with McDaid
[02:40.50]Discussing records we made
[02:41.31]And every single second knowing
[02:42.55]That we'll never betray
[02:43.49]The way we were raised
[02:44.41]Remembering our background
[02:45.53]Sat down
[02:46.16]That's how we plan it out;
[02:47.06]It's time to take it back now
[02:50.07]C'mon and take it back love
[02:54.26]C'mon and take it back for us
[02:58.18]Don't you fade into the back love
[03:02.14]Ooooh
[03:06.96]C'mon and take it back love
[03:10.98]C'mon and take it back for us
[03:14.86]Don't you fade into the back love
[03:18.89]Ooooh