Ed Sheeran – Take It Back (Guitar)

Dm
   I'm not a rapper, I'm a singer with a flow, I've got a habit of spitting quicker lyrics you know

             Bb
You found me ripping the writtens out of the pages they sit in

        C
I never want to get bitten because plagiarism is hidden

            Dm
Watch how I sit on the rhythm, prisoner with a vision, signed to a label, but didn't listen to any criticism

            Bb
Thought you knew but you didn't so perk your ears up and listen

     C
Studio is a system 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 

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

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

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

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

            Dm
I went from sleeping at a subway station, to sleeping with a movie star and adding to the population

             Bb
Not my imagination, I don't want to relax

                        C
Would it hurt your reputation, if I put it on wax? So take it back now...

Dm
Mmmm

                                Bb
Come on and take it back, love

     C                            Dm
Come on and take it back for us   

                                   Bb
Dont you fade into the back, love

 C
No

                         Dm
I take it back with the rhythm and blues, with my rap pack I'll be singing the news,

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

 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,

            Bb
they try to take aim like beckham when he goes to shoot,

           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 

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

                   C
and still they're claiming that I handle it wrong,

                           Dm
but then I've never had an enemy, except for NME, but I'll be selling twice as many copies 

Bb                                                  C    
   with only spectacles ahead of me, and festival fees, are healthier than a Dalmatian on pedigree

Dm                                                                                                  Bb
   singing for the masses, rubber dinghy rapids, I keep this rapping a habit and keep on fashioning magic,

                                                     C
I'm battling for respect, and I don't know if I'll have it, this song's from the heart, cover the planet

Dm
Mmmm

                                Bb
Come on and take it back, love

     C                            Dm
Come on and take it back for us   

                                   Bb
Dont you fade into the back, love

 C
No

Dm
    Now, I don't ever want to be perfect, 'cause I'm a singer that you never want to see shirtless

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

 C
Taking my first steps into the scene, giving me focus

 Dm
Putting on a brave face, like Timothy Dalton, considering a name change, thinking it was hopeless

 Bb
Rhyming over recordings, avoiding tradition

              C
'Cause every day some lyrics and a melody could be written

       Dm
Now absence can make your heart ache, but drinking absinthe can change your mind-state, vividly,

Bb
   And I'll say it again,

                    C
Living life on the edge, with a closed hand full of friends

                      Dm
Is good advice from a man who took his life on the road with me

                          Bb
Cause that's how it's supposed to be, I'm screaming out vocally

               C
it might seem totally impossible achieving life's dreams, but

Dm
   But I just write schemes, I'm never having a stylist giving me tight jeans

                Bb
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

         Dm
Having a pint with McDaid, discussing records we made, and every single second knowing

                 Bb
The way we were raised, remembering our backgrounds

         C
Sat down, that's how we plan it out, it's time to take it back now

Dm
Mmmm

                                Bb
Come on and take it back, love

     C                            Dm
Come on and take it back for us   

                                   Bb
Dont you fade into the back, love

 C
No                                   (studio version:  Dm)

Dm
My dreams keep me awake at night, written in rhymes, and I deliver the hype

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

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

Dm
We forget 90 percent of it when we wake, but the other 10 percent, it never fades

Bb
Dreaming dreams and day to day goals, stay awake loads, 

                C
Try to make the cut like the paper or razor blade, oh, never give up

           Dm
And just remember just to hold out more, a couple years ago I couldn't just control 

               Bb
You'd find me buskin' on the street when it was cold outdoors

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

         Dm
Writing love songs for the sake of it, never to make a hit, 

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

C
Most of these other guys are kids that pose, his little sister has to 

Dm
babysit, that's just a way it is, dreams are your own, just set your goals and have the utmost faith in it

               Bb
Tread your own path You'll never make it as a follower, 

C                                                               Dm
You'll never know where you will go or you will be tomorrow