I’d Rather Be With You

(Verse)
I'm getting comments my songs' often depressing
Rarely being up-beat, and don't share your perspective
I don't aim to be the artist that you're calling a legend
Sometimes I need to vent, so I just call in Collective
I hate having to rap about the topic at hand
Because it's something more important than just a flash in a pan
I need to be delicate, cause maybe half of my fans
Can take it out of context and twist it backwards in half
When I struggle with religion I'm like half of a man
I battle the idea of God's masterful plan
The morals are nice, cause more than half of you lack
The discipline like those kids in the back of the class
Not listening, or paying attention to the teachings
And it stockpiles my frustration to the ceiling
I wish that I could snap and start thrashing out beatings
You're blinded by your path, you can't see what I'm feeling
When it comes to relationships I'm baffled again
Could be going so well, then she'll abandon the train
According to these women, me not having a faith
Kills any form of attraction, so they can pass it away
Sure sounds like a cop-out, I'm pissed and enraged
So I'm flipping off these churches as I drive by their way
There's nothing I can do, so I don't get why I worry about it
I need to grow up, and be a fucking man about it
You know, it's so amazing to me
How I overanalyze what it all basically means
I scrutinize my lines for any truth that it brings
And use it as ammo for another round in the ring
My overactive brain leaves me tossing and turning
Wishing and hoping that I could possible learn
What is causing me to change, and for this monster to surface
It twisted my life, just when I thought it was perfect
I need to take a breath
I can't wait until the time I'm not dependant on cheques
I think of the future when I lay down to rest
And I get so happy my heart beats through my chest
Can't wait to have a wife, two kids, and picket fence
And back in high school, we made mistakes picking friends
The only thing I cared about was writing raps and mixing trends
When I looked ahead, it felt like the picture's dead
And it's funny, how that radically changed
The metamorphosis had just sporadically came
Ran into an old friend, he suggested "The Game"
So I read it then perfect it - getting practically laid
But that's the mistake
I mean the women were hot, I just couldn't handle the way
That they were coming to my life, I wasn't honest a day
Then vulnerability had fucking rattled my cage