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I'd Rather Have You
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Sep 26, 2026 updated
Something Different (Deluxe Version) album
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Song Meaning
Sidewalk Prophets spend the verses describing other people's chase rather than confessing their own — "they're working, I'm working, trying to get more than the guy next door... they want money, they got money, a castle of cash." The comparison game gets named specifically before the song ever states its alternative.
"I know that my soul will never get rich off of fool's gold" draws a hard line between two kinds of wealth, and "digging a ditch screaming 'more, more, more'" pictures accumulation as a hole that gets deeper rather than more secure the more it's filled.
Jesus' own instruction not to store up treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, but to store up treasures where they can't be lost, gives the whole song its underlying logic, and Paul's warning that the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil backs up the ditch imagery directly. The chorus's insistence — "I'd rather have you, you're the only one I chose" — treats that choice as already settled, not still being debated.
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They’re working. I’m working.
Trying to get more than the guy next door.
But I know that my soul will never get rich off of fool’s gold.
They want class, high class, climb that ladder to a high that won’t last.
There’s no end in sight, ‘cuz you can’t see nothing when you don’t got the light.
I’d rather have real than just pretend.
I’d rather have more than a passing trend.
Let the world keep the riches.
I’ve got nothing but nothing to lose.
I’d rather have you, you’re the only one I chose.
I’d rather have you, only you.
They want money. They got money.
A castle of cash, watch it grow as they crash,
into a hole deeper than before.
They’re digging a ditch screaming “More, more, more!â€
I’d rather be real than just feel good.
I’d rather give more than what I should.
Sick of living for myself
when there’s everything to lose.
I’d rather have you, you’re the only one I chose.
I’d rather have you, only you.
I’d rather have you, you’re the only one I chose.
I’d rather have you, only you.
Your love is real, not just pretend.
Your love is more than a passing trend.
Your love is real and it’s always good.
Your love is more
I’d rather have you, you’re the only one I chose.
I’d rather have you, only you.
I’d rather have you, you’re the only one I chose.
I’d rather have you, only you.