The Monster
[00:00.46] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[00:03.73] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[00:08.26] You're tryin' to save me, stop holding your breath
[00:12.28] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy (crazy)
[00:16.80] I wanted the fame but not the cover of Newsweek
[00:19.83] Oh well, guess beggars can't be choosey
[00:22.09] Wanted to receive attention for my music
[00:24.35] Wanted to be left alone in public, excuse me
[00:26.35] For wantin' my cake, and eat it too, and wantin' it both ways
[00:28.87] Fame made me a balloon 'cause my ego inflated
[00:30.88] When I blew, see, but it was confusing
[00:33.15] 'Cause all I wanted to do's be the Bruce Lee of loose leaf
[00:35.66] Abused ink, used it as a tool when I blew steam (ooh)
[00:38.18] Hit the lottery, ooh-wee
[00:40.19] But with what I gave up to get, it was bittersweet
[00:42.19] It was like winnin' a used mink
[00:43.70] Ironic 'cause I think I'm gettin' so huge I need a shrink
[00:47.22] I'm beginnin' to lose sleep, one sheep, two sheep
[00:47.97] Going coo-coo and kooky as Kool Keith
[00:50.49] But I'm actually weirder than you think, 'cause I'm
[00:52.25] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[00:56.02] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[01:00.81] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[01:04.83] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[01:09.14] Well, that's nothin' (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:11.65] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:17.94] Well, that's nothin' (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:20.71] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:27.51] Now, I ain't much of a poet
[01:28.51] But I know somebody once told me to seize the moment
[01:29.77] And don't squander it
[01:32.04] 'Cause you never know when it all could be over tomorrow
[01:34.31] So I keep conjurin'
[01:35.07] Sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from
[01:36.83] Yeah, ponderin'll do you wonders
[01:38.60] No wonder you're losing your mind, the way it wanders
[01:40.86] Yodel-odel-ay-hee-hoo
[01:42.37] I think it went wanderin' off down yonder
[01:44.13] And stumbled onto Jeff VanVonderen
[01:45.89] 'Cause I need an interventionist
[01:47.66] To intervene between me and this monster
[01:49.43] And save me from myself and all this conflict
[01:50.68] 'Cause the very thing that I love's killing me
[01:53.70] And I can't conquer it
[01:54.70] My OCD is conkin' me in the head, keep knockin'
[01:57.23] Nobody's home, I'm sleepwalkin'
[01:59.24] I'm just relayin' what the voice in my head's sayin'
[02:00.99] Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the
[02:03.01] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[02:06.02] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[02:10.30] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[02:15.07] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[02:19.33] Well, that's nothin' (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:25.61] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:27.88] Well, that's nothin' (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:30.15] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:37.69] Call me crazy, but I have this vision
[02:39.22] One day that I'll walk amongst you a regular civilian
[02:42.24] But until then, drums get killed and
[02:44.00] I'm comin' straight at MC's, blood gets spilled and
[02:46.01] I'll take it back to the days that I'd get on a Dre track
[02:48.27] Give every kid who got played that pumped-up feelin'
[02:50.03] And shit to say back to the kids who played him
[02:52.55] I ain't here to save the fuckin' children
[02:55.31] But if one kid out of a hundred million
[02:58.07] Who are going through a struggle feels it and relates, that's great
[02:59.58] It's payback, Russell Wilson
[03:01.34] Falling way back in the draft
[03:02.85] Turn nothin' into somethin', still can
[03:04.86] Make that, straw into gold, chump, I will spin
[03:06.61] Rumpelstiltskin in a haystack
[03:08.89] Maybe I need a straight jacket, face facts
[03:10.68] I am nuts for real, but I'm okay with that
[03:13.18] It's nothin', I'm still friends with the
[03:14.70] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[03:18.22] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[03:22.26] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[03:26.81] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[03:31.08] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[03:35.38] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[03:40.15] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[03:44.45] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[03:48.74] Well, that's nothin' (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[03:51.00] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[03:57.28] Well, that's nothin' (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[04:00.31] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
