[00:00.62] The Monster
[00:01.36] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[00:05.45] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[00:09.73] You're tryin' to save me, stop holding your breath
[00:13.99] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy (crazy)
[00:19.51] I wanted the fame but not the cover of Newsweek
[00:21.51] Oh well, guess beggars can't be choosey
[00:23.27] Wanted to receive attention for my music
[00:25.52] Wanted to be left alone in public, excuse me
[00:28.04] For wantin' my cake, and eat it too, and wantin' it both ways
[00:30.52] Fame made me a balloon 'cause my ego inflated
[00:32.53] When I blew, see, but it was confusing
[00:34.29] 'Cause all I wanted to do's be the Bruce Lee of loose leaf
[00:37.05] Abused ink, used it as a tool when I blew steam (ooh)
[00:40.05] Hit the lottery, ooh-wee
[00:41.31] But with what I gave up to get, it was bittersweet
[00:43.31] It was like winnin' a used mink
[00:45.06] Ironic 'cause I think I'm gettin' so huge I need a shrink
[00:47.57] I'm beginnin' to lose sleep, one sheep, two sheep
[00:49.57] Going coo-coo and kooky as Kool Keith
[00:51.57] But I'm actually weirder than you think, 'cause I'm
[00:53.57] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[00:57.59] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[01:02.10] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[01:06.37] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[01:10.63] Well, that's nothin' (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:14.90] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:19.40] Well, that's nothin' (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:23.68] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:28.94] Now, I ain't much of a poet
[01:29.57] But I know somebody once told me to seize the moment
[01:31.57] And don't squander it
[01:32.83] 'Cause you never know when it all could be over tomorrow
[01:35.33] So I keep conjurin'
[01:35.92] Sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from
[01:38.18] Yeah, ponderin'll do you wonders
[01:39.82] No wonder you're losing your mind, the way it wanders
[01:41.92] Yodel-odel-ay-hee-hoo
[01:43.41] I think it went wanderin' off down yonder
[01:45.34] And stumbled onto Jeff VanVonderen
[01:47.10] 'Cause I need an interventionist
[01:48.60] To intervene between me and this monster
[01:50.87] And save me from myself and all this conflict
[01:52.87] 'Cause the very thing that I love's killing me
[01:54.87] And I can't conquer it
[01:55.97] My OCD is conkin' me in the head, keep knockin'
[01:58.48] Nobody's home, I'm sleepwalkin'
[02:00.23] I'm just relayin' what the voice in my head's sayin'
[02:02.23] Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the
[02:03.24] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[02:07.49] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[02:11.76] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[02:16.02] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[02:20.29] Well, that's nothin' (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:24.79] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:29.07] Well, that's nothin' (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:35.57] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:39.10] Call me crazy, but I have this vision
[02:40.86] One day that I'll walk amongst you a regular civilian
[02:43.36] But until then, drums get killed and
[02:45.12] I'm comin' straight at MC's, blood gets spilled and
[02:47.12] I'll take it back to the days that I'd get on a Dre track
[02:49.63] Give every kid who got played that pumped-up feelin'
[02:51.88] And shit to say back to the kids who played him
[02:54.65] I ain't here to save the fuckin' children
[02:56.15] But if one kid out of a hundred million
[02:58.16] Who are going through a struggle feels it and relates, that's great
[03:01.17] It's payback, Russell Wilson
[03:02.41] Falling way back in the draft
[03:04.18] Turn nothin' into somethin', still can
[03:05.94] Make that, straw into gold, chump, I will spin
[03:08.29] Rumpelstiltskin in a haystack
[03:10.31] Maybe I need a straight jacket, face facts
[03:12.31] I am nuts for real, but I'm okay with that
[03:14.56] It's nothin', I'm still friends with the
[03:15.32] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[03:19.32] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[03:23.84] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[03:28.11] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[03:32.63] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[03:37.15] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[03:41.55] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[03:45.56] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[03:49.83] Well, that's nothin' (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[03:54.36] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[03:58.61] Well, that's nothin' (ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[04:02.88] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
