Take It Back

I'm not a rapper

I'm a singer with a flow

I've got a habit of spitting

Quicker lyrics you know

You found me ripping the writtens

Out of the pages they sit in

And never want to get bitten

Cause plagiarism is hidden

Watch how I sit on the rhythm

Prisoner with a vision

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

Thought you knew but you didn't

So perk your ears up and listen

Studio is a system

And you could say that I'm driven

And now it's on to the next saga

We drink the best lager

I never tried to win you

Over like your stepfather

I do my own thing now, and get respect after

And I'm avoiding the cane like it was get carter

For four years I never had a place to stay

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

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

I was macy gray I tried to say goodbye and

I choked

Went from sleeping at the subway station, sleeping with a movie star and adding to the population

Not my imagination, I don't want to relax

But would it hurt your reputation

If I put it on wax?

So take it back now

C'mon and take it back love

C'mon and take it back for us

Don't you fade into the back love

Ooh

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 'em to school

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

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

And keeping the truth through the vocal booth

Stars burst out on the scene like an opal fruit

They try and take aim like beckham when he goes to shoot

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

And I'm supposed to be calm

I tattooed the lyrics onto my arm

Whispering everything that happens is from now on

I'll be willing to start again by the end of the song

Still they claim that I handled it wrong

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

With only spectacles ahead of me and festival fees

And healthier than a dalmatian on pedigree

Singing for the masses

Rubber dinghy rapids

Keep this rapping a habit

And keep on passioning magic

I'm battling with respect

I don't know if I'll have it

This songs from the heart

Cover the planet

I'll take it back now

C'mon and take it back love

C'mon and take it back for us

Don't you fade into the back love

Ooh

Take it back now

I don't ever want to be perfect

Cause I'm a singer that you

Never want to see shirtless

I accept the fact that someone's got to win worst-dressed

Taking my first steps into the scene

Giving me focus

Putting on a brave face, like timothy dalton

Considering a name change

Thinking it was hopeless

Rhyming over recordings

Avoiding tradition

Cause every day some lyrics

And a melody can be written

Now absence can make your heart ache

But drinking absinthe can change your mind-state, vividly

I need to let my liver be

And I say it again

Living life on the edge

With a closed hand full of friends

Is good advice from a man

Who took his life on the road with me

And I hope to see him blowing up globally

Cause that's how it's supposed to be

I'm screaming out vocally

Might seem totally impossible

Achieving life's dreams

But, but I just write schemes

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

Madison square garden is where I might be

But more likely

You'll find me in the back

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

The way we were raised

Remembering our background

Sat down

That's how we plan it out

It's time to take it back now

C'mon and take it back, love

C'mon and take it back for us

Don't you fade into the back, love

Ooooh

C'mon and take it back, love

C'mon and take it back for us

Don't you fade into the back, love

Ooh

My dreams keep me awake at night

Written in rhymes, and I deliver the hype

Am I just living the lie

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

Woah

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

We forget 90 per cent of it when we wake

But the other 10 per cent it never fades

Dreaming dreams, day to day goals

Stay awake loads, try to make the cut like the

Paper or razor blade, oh, never give up

And just remember just to hold out more

A couple years ago

I couldn't just control that thought

You'd find me buskin' on the street

When it was cold outdoors

And now I'm sweating on the stage

Of a sold-out tour

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

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

Most of these other guys are guys that pose

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

Dreams you own, just set your goals

And have the utmost faith in it

Tread your own path

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

Where you will go or where you will be tomorrow