Eminem ft. Rihanna - The Monster (Lyrics)

[00:09.18] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

[00:12.68] Get along with the voices inside of my head

[00:17.19] You're trying to save me, stop holding your breath

[00:21.68] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy

[00:26.68] I wanted the fame, but not the cover of Newsweek

[00:29.43] Oh, well, guess beggars can't be choosey

[00:31.44] Wanted to receive attention for my music

[00:33.44] Wanted to be left alone in public. Excuse me

[00:35.69] For wanting my cake and eat it too, and wanting it both ways

[00:38.20] Fame made me a balloon 'cause my ego inflated

[00:40.70] When I blew; see, but it was confusing

[00:42.18] 'Cause all I wanted to do is be the Bruce Lee of loose leaf

[00:45.18] Abused ink, used it as a tool when I blew steam (wooh!)

[00:48.47] Hit the lottery, oh wee

[00:49.47] But with what I gave up to get it was bittersweet

[00:51.68] It was like winning a used mink

[00:53.18] Ironic 'cause I think I'm getting so huge I need a shrink

[00:54.94] I'm beginning to lose sleep: one sheep, two sheep

[00:57.45] Going cuckoo and cooky as Kool Keith

[00:59.43] But I'm actually weirder than you think

[01:00.82] 'Cause I'm

[01:01.31] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

[01:05.33] Get along with the voices inside of my head

[01:09.35] You're trying to save me, stop holding your breath

[01:14.34] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy

[01:18.36] Well, that's nothing

[01:26.33] Well, that's nothing

[01:36.58] Now, I ain't much of a poet but I know somebody once told me

[01:39.33] To seize the moment and don't squander it

[01:40.85] 'Cause you never know when it all could be over tomorrow

[01:42.83] So I keep conjuring, sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from

[01:46.08] (Yeah, pondering'll do you wonders.

[01:47.33] No wonder you're losing your mind the way it wanders.)

[01:49.10] Yoda-loda-le-hee-hoo

[01:51.33] I think it went wandering off down yonder

[01:53.08] And stumbled on 'ta Jeff VanVonderen

[01:54.58] 'Cause I need an interventionist

[01:56.58] To intervene between me and this monster

[01:58.32] And save me from myself and all this conflict

[02:00.83] 'Cause the very thing that I love's killing me and I can't conquer it

[02:03.58] My OCD's conking me in the head

[02:05.83] Keep knocking, nobody's home, I'm sleepwalking

[02:08.07] I'm just relaying what the voice in my head's saying

[02:10.07] Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the

[02:10.69] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

[02:14.99] Get along with the voices inside of my head

[02:18.73] You're trying to save me, stop holding your breath

[02:23.75] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy

[02:27.99] Well, that's nothing

[02:36.23] Well, that's nothing

[02:45.73] Call me crazy but I have this vision

[02:48.51] One day that I'd walk amongst you a regular civilian

[02:51.48] But until then drums get killed and I'm coming straight at

[02:53.77] MCs, blood get spilled and I'll

[02:55.73] Take you back to the days that I'd get on a Dre track

[02:57.50] Give every kid who got played that

[02:59.23] Pumped up feeling and shit to say back

[03:00.75] To the kids who played him

[03:02.50] I ain't here to save the fucking children

[03:03.98] But if one kid out of a hundred million

[03:06.00] Who are going through a struggle feels it and then relates that's great

[03:08.76] It's payback, Russell Wilson falling way back

[03:11.25] In the draft, turn nothing into something, still can make that

[03:14.48] Straw into gold chump, I will spin Rumpelstiltskin in a haystack

[03:17.48] Maybe I need a straightjacket, face facts

[03:20.24] I am nuts for real, but I'm okay with that

[03:22.48] It's nothing, I'm still friends with the

[03:23.39] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

[03:27.15] Get along with the voices inside of my head

[03:30.89] You're trying to save me, stop holding your breath

[03:35.93] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy

[03:40.14] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

[03:44.42] Get along with the voices inside of my head

[03:48.41] You're trying to save me, stop holding your breath

[03:53.65] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy

[03:57.66] Well, that's nothing

[04:06.15] Well, that's nothing