Blanket (Live) [iTunes Festival: London 2007]

[Intro]
"So this song, I wrote- actually, this song came out before even the album came out. And I didn't technically write it all myself, this one. This one was written with Mintos from Urban Species and this was a song that I really, really loved and I actually wrote it with the most terrible hangover, and actually Maisie has a lot to answer for that. She's in the audience. For some reason I got terribly drunk and that's very unlike me. I'm very professional, you see. And I just had the worst hangover and I just- I mean I did wanna be there because (a) Mintos is really sexy and (b) cause it's Urban Species and I liked Urban Species. So I was feeling really kind of groggy and Mintos was like- he kinda had this plan of what he wanted me to do and I just wasn't having any of it 'cause it meant extra work for me, so I just went 'No, sorry, I've got this idea' and this is what i ended up- this is what I sang and this is what it ended up being. It's called 'Blanket' and I really like it. And, in the middle, I'll be doing, kind of, Mintos' rap, so excuse me for that. It kinda... I do my best."

[Verse 1]
Emotionless this city lies
Cruel it is, it clouds my eyes
The dull, the dark shades on my day
I live inside this place

[Verse 2]
Locked up inside my metal cage
Always tense and filled with rage
Above the concrete fields below
With you I wanna go, wanna go, wanna go

[Chorus]
I see only what I wanna see, woah
I'll be only who I wanna be
My blanket covers me, yeah

[Verse 3]
As a youth man I was body poppin' breakin' on the lino
Traded in my lino for a pad and a biro
Used to stand in line just so as I could sign my giro
But now my ends meet in the best way that I know
(Hat, snare, kick) and the beats that go boom
See the music I consume to escape the doom and gloom
The beats and melodies keep realities at bay
But what happens when the records done and starts to fade away

[Verse 4]
Alone within myself again
I try to veil away my pain
The dirty grey surrounding me 'round
And now I hear no sound

[Chorus]
I see only what I wanna see, woah
I'll be only who I wanna be
My blanket covers me, covers me
Covers me, covers me, covers me, yeah

[Chorus]
I see only what I wanna see, woah
I'll be only who I wanna be
My blanket covers me

[Interlude]

[Bridge]
You are my living world
You are my living world
You are, you are, you are my
My only living world

[Chorus]
I see only what I wanna see, woah
I'll be only who I wanna be
My blanket covers me, covers me
Covers me, covers me, covers me, yeah

[Chorus]
I see only what I wanna see, woah
I'll be only who I wanna be
My blanket covers me

[Outro]
My blanket covers me, yeah