BTS and Ed Sheeran’s ‘Permission to Dance’ Lyrics Are Your Reminder to Let Yourself Feel Good

BTS started the summer with “Butter,” and they’re continuing the feel-good vibes with their new English song “Permission to Dance.” The track accompanies “Butter” on its just-released CD single.

The lyrics of “Permission to Dance,” co-written by Ed Sheeran (who previously co-wrote the boys’ 2019 Map of the Soul: Persona track “Make It Right”), are a literal reminder that you don’t need anyone’s permission to feel joy, dance, and bask in positivity. Sheeran was thrilled about its release and Jin, Jungkook, V, RM, Suga, Jimin, and J-Hope bringing the lyrics to life. Sheeran tweeted, “Wrote this song a while ago and so happy it’s being heard on such a world stage and being sung by such talented people.”

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“Permission to Dance” continues the theme “Butter” established. As BTS told Zane Lowe of “Butter” and its purpose, via an interpreter, in May, “We wanted to create a song that’s really upbeat, that’s a really summer song that, as you said, it makes people happy and go out and dance. That’s what we want to do. We wanted to have a summer song that can heal and console people. That’s why we chose this song and that’s why we decided to release this song. This is a really fun song so when we finished recording it, we all listened to it together. Then we were saying to each other, ‘This is so great. This is such a fun song.’”

“Permission to Dance” has that same vibe—and is destined for a spot on everyone’s going-out playlist. Take in the music video below, which is truly a sweet ode to post-vax summer, and the lyrics too, via Genius.

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Verse 1: Jungkook, RM
It’s the thought of being young
When your heart’s just like a drum
Beating louder with no way to guard it
When it all seems like it’s wrong
Just sing along to Elton John
And to that feeling, we’re just getting started

Pre-Chorus: Jimin, Jin

When the nights get colder
And the rhythms got you falling behind
Just dream about that moment
When you look yourself right in the eye, eye, eye
Then you say

Chorus: Jungkook, V

I wanna dance
The music’s got me going
Ain’t nothing that can stop how we move, yeah
Let’s break our plans
And live just like we’re golden
And roll in like we’re dancing fools

Post-Chorus: Jimin, RM, Jin

We don’t need to worry
‘Cause when we fall, we know how to land
Don’t need to talk the talk, just walk the walk tonight
‘Cause we don’t need permission to dance

Verse 2: J-Hope, Suga, Jungkook
There’s always something that’s standing in the way
But if you don’t let it faze ya
You’ll know just how to break
Just keep the right vibe, yeah
‘Cause there’s no looking back
There ain’t no one to prove
We don’t got this on lock (Yeah)

Pre-Chorus: V, Jungkook, Jimin
The wait is over
The time is now so let’s do it right, mm (Yeah)
Yeah we’ll keep going
And stay up until we see the sunri-i-ise (Yeah)
And we’ll say

Chorus: V, Jin
I wanna dance
The music’s got me going
Ain’t nothing that can stop how we move, yeah
Let’s break our plans
And live just like we’re golden
And roll in like we’re dancing fools

Post-Chorus: Jungkook, J-Hope, Jimin
We don’t need to worry
‘Cause when we fall, we know how to land
Don’t need to talk the talk, just walk the walk tonight
‘Cause we don’t need permission to dance

Bridge: Jin, Jungkook
Da-na-na-na-na-na-na
Da-na-na-na-na-na-na
Da-na-na-na-na-na-na
No, we don’t need permission to dance
Da-na-na-na-na-na-na (Hey)
Da-na-na-na-na-na-na
Da-na-na-na-na-na-na

Pre-Chorus: Jimin, V
Well, let me show ya
That we can keep the fire alive, mm
‘Cause it’s not over
Till it’s over, say it one more time
Say

Chorus: Jungkook, Jimin
I wanna dance
The music’s got me going (Music’s got me going)
Ain’t nothing that can stop how we move, yeah (Hey, yeah)
Let’s break our plans
And live just like we’re golden (Ooh)
And roll in like we’re dancing fools (Like we’re dancing fools)

Post-Chorus: Jin, Suga, V, Jungkook
We don’t need to worry
‘Cause when we fall, we know how to land (We know how to land)
Don’t need to talk the talk, just walk the walk tonight (Ooh)
‘Cause we don’t need permission to dance

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