The Monster
[00:00.38] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[00:04.12] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[00:08.63] You're trying to save me, stop holding your breath
[00:13.13] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[00:17.63] I wanted the fame but not the cover of Newsweek
[00:20.39] Oh well, guess beggars can't be choosey
[00:22.37] Wanted to receive attention for my music
[00:24.63] Wanted to be left alone in public, excuse me
[00:27.13] For wantin' my cake, and eat it too, and wantin' it both ways
[00:29.38] Fame made me a balloon ‘cause my ego inflated
[00:31.63] When I blew, see, but it was confusing
[00:33.13] ‘Cause all I wanted to do's be the Bruce Lee of loose leaf
[00:35.64] Abused ink, used it as a tool when I blew steam
[00:38.37] Ooh! Hit the lottery, ooh-wee!
[00:40.38] But with what I gave up to get it was bittersweet
[00:42.62] It was like winnin' a used mink
[00:44.38] Ironic ‘cause I think I'm gettin' so huge I need a shrink
[00:46.63] I'm beginnin' to lose sleep: one sheep, two sheep
[00:48.62] Going coo-coo and kooky as Kool Keith
[00:49.88] But I'm actually weirder than you think, ‘cause I'm
[00:52.61] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[00:56.37] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[01:00.88] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[01:05.13] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[01:09.63] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:13.13] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:18.63] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:21.87] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:26.13] Now, I ain't much of a poet
[01:28.88] But I know somebody once told me to seize the moment
[01:30.64] And don't squander it
[01:31.88] ‘Cause you never know when it all could be over tomorrow
[01:33.64] So I keep conjurin'
[01:35.13] Sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from
[01:37.12] Yeah, ponderin' will do you wonders
[01:38.37] No wonder you're losing your mind, the way it wanders
[01:40.38] Yodel-odel-ay-hee-hoo!
[01:42.13] I think it went wanderin' off down yonder
[01:43.88] And stumbled onto Jeff VanVonderen
[01:45.87] ‘Cause I need an interventionist
[01:47.63] To intervene between me and this monster
[01:49.88] And save me from myself and all this conflict
[01:51.88] ‘Cause the very thing that I love's killing me
[01:53.62] And I can't conquer it
[01:54.64] My OCD is conkin' me in the head, keep knockin'
[01:57.13] Nobody's home, I'm sleepwalkin'
[01:58.87] I'm just relayin' what the voice in my head's sayin'
[02:01.12] Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the
[02:02.88] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[02:06.14] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[02:10.63] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[02:15.13] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[02:19.62] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:23.13] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:28.62] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:31.38] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:37.38] Call me crazy, but I have this vision
[02:38.89] One day that I'll walk amongst you a regular civilian
[02:42.13] But until then, drums get killed and
[02:44.13] I'm comin' straight at MC's, blood gets spilled and
[02:46.63] I'll take it back to the days that I'd get on a Dre track
[02:48.63] Give every kid who got played that pumped-up feelin'
[02:51.12] And shit to say back to the kids who played him
[02:53.13] I ain't here to save the fuckin' children
[02:54.88] But if one kid out of a hundred million
[02:56.62] Who are going through a struggle feels it
[02:58.88] And relates, that's great, it's payback, Russell Wilson
[03:01.12] Falling way back in the draft
[03:03.13] Turn nothin' into somethin', still can
[03:04.63] Make that, straw into gold chump, I will spin
[03:06.62] Rumpelstiltskin in a haystack
[03:08.63] Maybe I need a straight jacket, face facts
[03:11.38] I am nuts for real, but I'm okay with that
[03:13.38] It's nothin', I'm still friends with the
[03:15.13] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[03:18.63] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[03:22.88] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[03:28.12] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[03:32.13] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[03:35.62] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[03:40.13] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[03:44.64] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[03:49.63] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[03:52.13] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[03:57.38] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[04:01.38] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
