I’d Rather

By Manhattan

Released on January 3, 2012

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[Intro: SZA]

I don't wanna be alone tonight

I'd rather be with, I'd rather be with you

I'd rather be with, I'd rather be with you

[Verse 1: Manhattan & SZA]

Mostly, we be roleplaying

You in your Dolce trench-coat

Underneath, no clothes, you naked

Both of us be chasing something that we running from, face it

Every midnight, we only laid up in that Days Inn

Room service came and closed the shades

They know that we ashamed of this

Why are we so prejudiced against something we both are?

Why we using both cars?

Me and you should own ours

Why we lying so hard?

Hot as something so raw

[Casket?] broken open with two crowbars

So far, I broke yours when I told you, "Is she there? Don't call"

Cross mines and hope to die before I hurt the ones I love

Hold your tongue, I know what you about to say

Hide your face, and cross your arms, and tell me that I'm full of shit (You're so full of shit, Danny)

You must think I'm like a broken record, way I move my lips

The way you move your lips got us in trouble now

You standing in the door, we both know you gonna turn around and say


[Chorus: SZA]

Don't really wanna be alone tonight

I'd rather be with you, I'd rather be with you

Don't really wanna cab home tonight

I'd rather be with you, I'd rather be with you

[Verse 2: Manhattan & SZA]

Forever in a day probably isn't long enough

Some people call it lust, we call it was it really is

Every Thursday when he pick up the kids

Your hair is did, he ask you why, you tell him mind your own damn business (Mind your own damn business)

And no I don't treaty you like wifey

But you love it when I [?]

Why are we so hard to please?

What makes us the perfect couple?

Even though we won't agree on anything logically

When it comes to talking reckless, we are like the breakfast club

Appetite for destruction, screw a wife to your husband

Through our discussions, we over-thug it

And tell our sells we don't owe them nothing, so fuck it

But nothing last forever, so tell me why we are prolonging

Guess you know I'm gon see you first when I'm done touring

You gon say "So what, you done whoring?"

And I'm a say "Uhm, you done being boring?"

You standing in that doorway saying...


[Chorus: SZA]

Don't really wanna be alone tonight

I'd rather be with you, I'd rather be with you

Don't really wanna cab home tonight

I'd rather be with you, I'd rather be with you

[Verse 3: Manhattan & SZA]

I got some mommy issues, but that's not why I hit you

You put your hands on me and twist it like I'm [?] with you

This is toxic, we condescend each other constant

And I ain't saying that to rhyme with the word bonded

I frown upon our problems, and hope that we can solve em

I swear to God I love you like my fucking childhood

It's bittersweet, but wouldn't change you for no one

Over brunching your robe, we spoke uncontrollably

Woe to me, look at us and all I see is dark clouds

But in a good way, you the Lucy to my Charlie Brown

As far as I can tell, it's gon take a miracle to split us two

Damn, we the love seat in the living room

I'm giving this to you, and it includes sincerity

This double life we living really sucks, but it has to be

One time you asked me if I'd rather be with you

I managed to avoid the question, but truthfully I do

(I'd rather, I'd rather, I'd rather...)


[Chorus: SZA]

Don't really wanna be alone tonight

(Don't really wanna cab home tonight)

I'd rather be with you, I'd rather be with you

(I'd rather be, I'd rather be yeah...)

Don't really wanna cab home tonight

(I don't really wanna cab home)

I'd rather be with you, I'd rather be with you


[Outro: SZA]

I'd rather be with you, I'd rather be with you

Don't really wanna cab home tonight

Don't really wanna cab home tonight

Why can't I just be with you? Why can't I just be with you tonight? Yeah...