Beg for You

**"Beg for You"** is a single by Charli XCX and Rina Sawayama for Charli's fifth studio album *Crash*. It serves as the fifth track for the album. It contains samples of "Don't Cry" by Milk Inc. (2000) and "Cry for You" by September (2006).

## Background

### 2019

On July 12th, 2019, Charli said on Instagram that Rina and her made a song for her third studio album Charli, Rina only had a small part on the song, she said she loved the part and that she wants to work it into something else in the future. She explained that she felt like she could do something more.

On December 6th, 2019, Rina said for PopBuzz that the song would hopefully be on the next record. It's unclear if she was refereing to her upcoming album after her debut "*SAWAYAMA*" or Charli's upcoming album after *Charli* (album) back then (Originally the 5th Studio Album before the pandemic ocurred and Charli released How I'm Feeling Now),  although it later became confirmed that the track was in fact going to be part of Charli's 5th album.

### 2020

On October 29th, 2020, Charli mentioned once again that Rina and her have spoken about doing a song together for a while, a couple months later, Charli posted a screenshot of a conversation with Rina that included "let's start from scratch!".

### 2021

On September 21st, 2021, Rina said on a Q&A on Twitter that she would love to collaborate with Charli again, which Charli quote tweeted "sending you something".  This means that Charli and Rina have three different songs unreleased or at least three different intents at a collaboration.

On November 1st, Charli revealed all the collaborators for her upcoming 5th studio album, *Crash*, naming Rina as one of them, confirming that this collaboration will be on the album.  On December 19th, Charli posted multiple pictures to Instagram, one of them being text a conversation with Rina about the song, Rina saying *"My engineer just finishing up so should be with u v soon / Our voices work so well together"*, and Charli saying *"Ahh can't wait ! / U sound AMAZING / Seriously crushed it ! / I loveeeeeee it !"*, acording to the text dates, the track was finished on October 14th, 2021.  On December 27th, Charli shared once again a snippet of Rina's verse from the track via her TikTok account.

### 2022

On January 20th, 2022, Charli posted new snippet of the studio version of the track, with the caption "coming. @rinasawayamaofficial", the video contained a clip of Rina and Charli posing for a photoshoot.  The sound of the TikTok included the title of the song, and what it seemed to be a single cover for it, confirming that it will be most likely the third single for the album.  On that same day, Rina posted a clip with a longer snippet on TikTok.  On this same day, on iTunes music, there was seemed to be revealed that the fifth track from Crash will be 2:48 minutes long, making it possible that this is the length and track number of this song, a tweet remarking this was retweeted by Charli the same day the song was announced.

On January 24th, the track was officially announced to be released on the 27th, along a link he pre-save the track.  The next day, it was also confirmed by Charli that the music video was going to be filmed on the 28th.  On the 27th, the track was released on all streaming platforms. A visualizer for the song was also released a day later. The music video for the track was released on February 11th.

### 2023

On February 21, 2023, a solo version of the song leaked online.

## Gallery

Cover originally shown on the pre-save song link.

## Official versions

* Album version — 2:48
* Demo version — 3:00

## Official remixes

* Pocket Remix — 3:00
* A. G. Cook and Vernon of Seventeen Remix — 4:09
* Jodie Harsh Remix — 2:56

## Lyrics

You know I go insane every time you have to catch a flight (Ah, ah, ah, ah)

Well, can I take you to the airport? Make out under the bathroom lights (Ah, ah, ah, ah)

Put your lips on my lips, I'll remember your kiss on the nights when I miss you, uh, uh

Something I can't forget when I'm restless in bed, yeah, you got me obsessed, hm, hm

Oh, don't you leave me this way

Won't you wait another hour or two?

You know I need you to stay

Don't make me beg for you, 'cause I'll beg for you

Yeah, yeah, yeah, uh, yeah

Beg for you, beg for you (Yeah)

Bеg for you, beg for you, mmm (Yeah)

Beg for you, bеg for you (Yeah)

So don't you leave me this way

You're like an ocean breeze, coming and going just as you please (Ah, ah, ah, ah)

Separated by a degree, hesitated, I'll lose you, so far out of reach (Ah, ah, ah, ah)

Oh, put your lips on my lips, I'll remember your kiss on the nights when I miss you, uh, uh

Something I can't forget when I'm restless in bed, yeah, you got me obsessing now

Oh, don't you leave me this way

Won't you wait another hour or two?

You know I need you to stay

Don't make me beg for you, 'cause I'll beg for you

My heart is aching, my breath you've taken

I'll leave that, just want a taste

Don't you leave me this way

Don't make me beg for you

Don't leave me, don't leave me this way

This way, this way

Don't leave me, don't leave me this way

This way, this way

Don't leave me, don't leave me this way (Don't you leave me) (Yeah)

This way (Don't you leave me this way) (Yeah), this way (Don't you leave me) (Yeah)

Don't leave me, don't leave me (Uh, yeah) this way (Don't you leave me) (Yeah)

This way (Don't you leave me this way) (Yeah), this way (Don't you leave me) (Yeah)

Don't you leave me

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

## References

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnrRVa-cn2I
2. ↑ https://www.vulture.com/2022/02/charli-xcx-rina-sawayama-beg-for-you.html
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/FckyeahCharli/status/1149738859653160960/photo/1
4. ↑ https://youtu.be/LWvJ9kq6tSc?t=410
5. ↑ https://twitter.com/FckyeahCharli/status/1321945709311074306
6. ↑ https://twitter.com/FckyeahCharli/status/1379476569698226180
7. ↑ https://twitter.com/charli\_xcx/status/1440425268410081280
8. ↑ https://twitter.com/charli\_xcx/status/1455220063829696531
9. ↑ https://twitter.com/FckyeahCharli/status/1472607066753753093/photo/3
10. ↑ https://www.tiktok.com/@charlixcx/video/7046397808089255174?is\_from\_webapp=1&sender\_device=pc&web\_id7047243727723808261
11. ↑ https://www.tiktok.com/@charlixcx/video/7055359629903203631
12. ↑ https://www.tiktok.com/music/Beg-For-You-feat-Rina-Sawayama-7054888818105436162
13. ↑ https://www.tiktok.com/@rinasawayamaofficial/video/7055361921012256006
14. ↑ https://twitter.com/FckyeahCharli/status/1484177830447665152
15. ↑ https://t.co/UMj5F17g6x
16. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CZHp5PkO9eO/
17. ↑ https://twitter.com/FckyeahCharli/status/1486152150229164034
18. ↑ https://krakenfiles.com/view/VYzRp9TGTJ/file.html
19. ↑ Note: The vinyl’s lyric sheets contains alternate lyrics to Rina Sawayama’s verse. They go along as "I savor every moment / I know it’ll only be a couple days, ah ah / Baby it’s your atonement / To love me up until the heaven’s gate, ah ah".