You Song Lyrics

[Chorus: Chance the Rapper]
This is not a love song, this is a you song
I just happen to love you
This is not a love song, this is a you song
I just happen to love you
This is not a love song, this is a you song
I just happen to love you
This is not a love song, this is a you song
I just happen to love you

[Verse 2: Lil Wayne]
Give you the world if it was for me
My diamond grill make it hard to see, I'm lying through my teeth

And now I'm flying on my PJ, looking at the clouds
Thinking about yo ass and how it look like a big smile
I get mental flashbacks of your ass crack, lemme get back on track
You say I act like I don't miss you, that's because I don't act
But anyway, we can role-play or get straight to it
Sorry, my mind in the gutter—better yet, sewer

And when you say I love you, I stutter, "I-I love you too"
It's Wayne's world, she say, "What is this world coming to?"
And she know me and whoever together, she hope we comin' loose
She told me that if she ain't the one, she gon' throw up the deuce

I laughed at her, we took a bath together and splashed each other
Then she got serious and said, "Tune I gotta ask you something
Do you really love me?" I tried to change the subject
So I said some crazy shit to her like
"What if you and I were just letters?

That'd be unfortunate, we'd have to rob a fortune teller
But I swear, I think I love you, fingers crossed in my pocket
Okay, that's a dead subject, you bring it up, that's a zombie
You remind me of... my memory ain't what it used to be"
She said she ain't trippin', I know, because I move my feet
And when she figure out that she been swindled
I'll be cleaning that love bird shit off of my window
I-I love you too...
[Chorus: Chance the Rapper]
This is not a love song, this is a you song
I just happen to love you
This is not a love song, this is a you song
I just happen to love you
This is not a love song, this is a you song
I just happen to love you
This is not a love song, this is a you song
I just happen to love you

[Outro: Lil Wayne]
I mean how many times
How many times I gotta
How many times I gotta say it for it to count?
Are you counting?
I loved the pictures
I needed that, I swear I did
I was just thinking about you when you sent them too
You don't believe me? I know
D5, what up 5?
I-I love you too...I do

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Genius Annotation

When asked if it was about a specific girl:

I was thinking about a specific girl, but I wanted it to be universal at the same time. That’s the big thing with making music, you want something that everyone can apply to their own lives, but there’s still a certain specificity. I wanted to be speaking about a black woman.

In this interview with Sway, Chance speaks about how Wayne actually delayed the release of D5 specifically to get Chance on this song.

Q&A

Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning

What has producer Cam O'bi said about the making of the song?
Genius Answer

After Acid Rap came out and it was a big success, Wayne reached out to Chance ’cause he wanted him on Dedication 5. Chance scheduled a session, he called me, Nate [Fox] and Peter [Cottontale] up and was like, “Yo, Wayne wants me to be on his project, he told me I can use whatever producer I want and he’ll hop on the song. I wanna work with you guys, let’s make something.” I was like, “Dope!” We were all excited.

We made that song from scratch. [Chance] played “Thank You” by JAY-Z, he was like, “I want to rap on a beat like this.” We were like, “Bet.” I did the drums first and then Peter played the chords—I love those chords so much. Then Nate added the Michael Jackson sample which was so important. “G-g-g-g-gon’ girl!” Nate just knows the small details.

That song wasn’t even finished, it’s just that we had to have it done and sent over by the next day. Peter had to leave because he was working at a restaurant at the time, so it was just me and L10, the engineer, in the studio. I think Chance was there but he fell asleep [laughs]. So we stayed up ’til the sun came up; the sun came up and we were still working on this fucking song. Chance did the hook—"this is not a love song, this is a you song,“ I love that shit—but we didn’t get a chance to finish it before the deadline.

Chance let me sing on it, too—I did little ad libs and the “I just happen to love ya (looove ya)” part. It was fun. For him to believe in me to do that was a big deal. I was like, “Oh shit, Chance The Rapper wants me to get on a song? This is crazy!” Vic Mensa was the first person to encourage me to do my own thing as an artist, but Chance heavily encouraged me, too.

We submitted the song, unfinished, to Wayne, thinking that they were going to send it back to us so L10 can mix it. They never sent it back, they just put it out [laughs]. But it was great.

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