The Monster
[00:00.09] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[00:04.02] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[00:08.59] You're tryin' to save me, stop holding your breath
[00:12.85] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy (crazy)
[00:18.48] I wanted the fame but not the cover of Newsweek
[00:20.83] Oh well, guess beggars can't be choosey
[00:22.69] Wanted to receive attention for my music
[00:25.08] Wanted to be left alone in public, excuse me
[00:27.22] For wantin' my cake, and eat it too, and wantin' it both ways
[00:29.61] Fame made me a balloon 'cause my ego inflated
[00:31.74] When I blew, see, but it was confusing
[00:33.60] 'Cause all I wanted to do's be the Bruce Lee of loose leaf
[00:36.25] Abused ink, used it as a tool when I blew steam (ooh)
[00:39.70] Hit the lottery, ooh-wee
[00:40.77] But with what I gave up to get, it was bittersweet
[00:42.63] It was like winnin' a used mink
[00:44.51] 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
[00:49.28] Going coo-coo and kooky as Kool Keith
[00:50.87] But I'm actually weirder than you think, 'cause I'm
[00:52.83] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[00:56.84] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[01:01.08] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[01:05.60] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[01:09.85] Well, that's nothin' (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:13.84] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:18.65] Well, that's nothin' (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:24.78] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:28.12] Now, I ain't much of a poet
[01:29.19] But I know somebody once told me to seize the moment
[01:31.05] And don't squander it
[01:32.12] 'Cause you never know when it all could be over tomorrow
[01:34.24] So I keep conjurin'
[01:35.31] Sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from
[01:37.42] Yeah, ponderin'll do you wonders
[01:39.02] No wonder you're losing your mind, the way it wanders
[01:41.16] Yodel-odel-ay-hee-hoo
[01:42.49] I think it went wanderin' off down yonder
[01:44.61] And stumbled onto Jeff VanVonderen
[01:46.20] 'Cause I need an interventionist
[01:48.07] To intervene between me and this monster
[01:49.94] And save me from myself and all this conflict
[01:52.34] 'Cause the very thing that I love's killing me
[01:54.22] And I can't conquer it
[01:55.01] My OCD is conkin' me in the head, keep knockin'
[01:57.93] Nobody's home, I'm sleepwalkin'
[01:59.26] I'm just relayin' what the voice in my head's sayin'
[02:01.39] Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the
[02:03.05] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[02:06.80] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[02:11.06] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[02:15.30] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[02:19.58] Well, that's nothin' (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:26.76] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:28.36] Well, that's nothin' (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:34.49] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:38.49] Call me crazy, but I have this vision
[02:40.14] One day that I'll walk amongst you a regular civilian
[02:42.53] But until then, drums get killed and
[02:44.66] I'm comin' straight at MC's, blood gets spilled and
[02:46.80] I'll take it back to the days that I'd get on a Dre track
[02:48.92] Give every kid who got played that pumped-up feelin'
[02:51.58] And shit to say back to the kids who played him
[02:53.71] I ain't here to save the fuckin' children
[02:55.30] But if one kid out of a hundred million
[02:57.42] Who are going through a struggle feels it and relates, that's great
[03:00.37] It's payback, Russell Wilson
[03:01.96] Falling way back in the draft
[03:03.55] Turn nothin' into somethin', still can
[03:05.15] Make that, straw into gold, chump, I will spin
[03:07.26] Rumpelstiltskin in a haystack
[03:09.14] Maybe I need a straight jacket, face facts
[03:11.55] I am nuts for real, but I'm okay with that
[03:13.69] It's nothin', I'm still friends with the
[03:15.26] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[03:18.74] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[03:22.98] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[03:27.49] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[03:32.02] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[03:36.54] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[03:40.53] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[03:44.78] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[03:49.29] Well, that's nothin' (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[03:55.14] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[03:57.80] Well, that's nothin' (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[04:02.32] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
