Imogen Heap — 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


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