The sins of our parents Let me spin and excite you To make it up to you I love you Never gonna stay You’re almost following it. That’s sort of a negative part of the song, so I sort of wonder about that sometimes. May I have this dance?” And he’s like, “That’s good!”. Sometimes, a song happens without your direct guiding of it. We are bound to inherit On May 18th, 2017 Chance the rapper tweeted the video for “May I Have This Dance”. All the things, we carried It does not have to be a romantic relationship. Girl you did your thing, May I Have This Dance by Francis and the Lights. And all of the people we passed through It’s like, the “you,” the plural “you.” To make it up to you. That took a long time. (Ooooooooooooh) In the ground, we bury And all the things we carried [Chorus] Now we're down to our bare feet I love you May I Have This Dance Lyrics: In the ground, we bury / The seeds of our pear tree / And all the things we carried / Now we're down to our bare feet / May I have this dance to make it up to you? |To make it up to you| Give me both your hands to make it up to you Let’s let it all go, and let’s all do this together.” It does feel like communication with all the people that are there, and I love that. You've got your, your grandmother's ring To make it up to you To make it up to you To make it up to you [Bridge] Can I say something crazy? I love you We are bound to inherit The seeds of a pear tree I was like, Benny, it’s like, “Give me one more chance.” I was really dramatic about it. Lyrics are happening. Give me one more [Chorus] Give me one more stand. I was scheduled to do a session with Benny Blanco, and so I was walking uptown on 7th Avenue to the session. Let me spin and excite you The sins of our parents [Verse 2] To make it up to you You've got your, your daddy's discernment Let me spin and excite you |To make it up to you| [Chorus] And then those two pieces, the second verse and the last bit ,were more like writing, thinking about the meaning of the song, and trying to sculpt something. Give me one more chance Can I say something crazy? I love you Ooooooooooooh May I have this dance to make it up to you? [Verse 2] I worked on the second verse very hard on my own, and that last bit, that last chorus, the lines that happened in between. You've got your, your grandmother's ring And to the people that have been there for however long they’ve been there with me. Can I say something crazy? I love you Let me spin and excite you Chance The Rapper Hops On The Remix Of Francis And The Lights’ “May I Have This Dance”, May I Have This Dance (Remix) by Francis and the Lights (Ft. [Verse 3] May I have this dance to make it up to you? “To make it up to you,” that’s where that feels the most relevant, actually, is singing it to a group of people. To make it up to you He was like, “Yeah, it’s all right, man. [Chorus] May I have this dance? Can I say something crazy? (Can I say something crazy?) Can I say something crazy? I love you Give me one more [Verse 1] Dance Now we're down to our bare feet And all the people we passed through You've got your, your mother's eyes May I have this dance? But I like thinking of it like, “Let’s let it all go. Now we're down to the last two In the ground, we bury They’re coming. The seeds of our pear tree [Chorus] Let me spin and excite you, Taylor Bennett, an up-and-coming rapper and Chance The Rapper’s brother, said that this is his favorite song off Farewell, Starlite. This song happened very quickly. So I was like, “Give me one more chance.” Then I was like, “Give me all your pants. [Verse 1] [Outro] Give me both your hands Girl you did your thing I worked on those very hard, but everything other than that almost happened on that first day. You've got your, your daddy's discernment May I have this dance? Everything came into place after that. May I have this dance to make it up to you I was cycling through in my head this lyric, “Give me one more chance / Give me one more chance / Give me one more.” And then I worked out the chords on his piano once I arrived. It’s almost following them, following them where they go, listening to them. Give me both your hands I love you It came from there. Give me one more chance Can I say something crazy? Give me one more chance Now we're down to the last two (Ooooooooooooh) Give me one more chance It’s cool.” And then he started doing his thing with the music and kind of left me in the other room, and I knew that wasn’t quite it yet. To make it up to you To make it up to you Give me both your hands to make it up to you And it very much feels that when I’ve played the song live, that it is very direct to the people that are there.