Eminem - The Monster

[00:00.08] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

[00:03.58] Get along with the voices inside of my head

[00:08.09] You're trying to save me, stop holding your breath

[00:12.58] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy

[00:17.58] I wanted the fame, but not the cover of Newsweek

[00:20.33] Oh, well, guess beggars can't be choosey

[00:22.34] Wanted to receive attention for my music

[00:24.34] Wanted to be left alone in public. Excuse me

[00:26.59] For wanting my cake and eat it too, and wanting it both ways

[00:29.10] Fame made me a balloon 'cause my ego inflated

[00:31.60] When I blew; see, but it was confusing

[00:33.08] 'Cause all I wanted to do is be the Bruce Lee of loose leaf

[00:36.08] Abused ink, used it as a tool when I blew steam (wooh!)

[00:39.37] Hit the lottery, oh wee

[00:40.37] But with what I gave up to get it was bittersweet

[00:42.58] It was like winning a used mink

[00:44.08] Ironic 'cause I think I'm getting so huge I need a shrink

[00:45.84] I'm beginning to lose sleep: one sheep, two sheep

[00:48.35] Going cuckoo and cooky as Kool Keith

[00:50.33] But I'm actually weirder than you think

[00:51.72] 'Cause I'm

[00:52.21] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

[00:56.23] Get along with the voices inside of my head

[01:00.25] You're trying to save me, stop holding your breath

[01:05.24] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy

[01:09.26] Well, that's nothing

[01:17.23] Well, that's nothing

[01:27.48] Now, I ain't much of a poet but I know somebody once told me

[01:30.23] To seize the moment and don't squander it

[01:31.75] 'Cause you never know when it all could be over tomorrow

[01:33.73] So I keep conjuring, sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from

[01:36.98] (Yeah, pondering'll do you wonders.

[01:38.23] No wonder you're losing your mind the way it wanders.)

[01:40.00] Yoda-loda-le-hee-hoo

[01:42.23] I think it went wandering off down yonder

[01:43.98] And stumbled on 'ta Jeff VanVonderen

[01:45.48] 'Cause I need an interventionist

[01:47.48] To intervene between me and this monster

[01:49.22] And save me from myself and all this conflict

[01:51.73] 'Cause the very thing that I love's killing me and I can't conquer it

[01:54.48] My OCD's conking me in the head

[01:56.73] Keep knocking, nobody's home, I'm sleepwalking

[01:58.97] I'm just relaying what the voice in my head's saying

[02:00.97] Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the

[02:01.59] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

[02:05.89] Get along with the voices inside of my head

[02:09.63] You're trying to save me, stop holding your breath

[02:14.65] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy

[02:18.89] Well, that's nothing

[02:27.13] Well, that's nothing

[02:36.63] Call me crazy but I have this vision

[02:39.41] One day that I'd walk amongst you a regular civilian

[02:42.38] But until then drums get killed and I'm coming straight at

[02:44.67] MCs, blood get spilled and I'll

[02:46.63] Take you back to the days that I'd get on a Dre track

[02:48.40] Give every kid who got played that

[02:50.13] Pumped up feeling and shit to say back

[02:51.65] To the kids who played him

[02:53.40] I ain't here to save the fucking children

[02:54.88] But if one kid out of a hundred million

[02:56.90] Who are going through a struggle feels it and then relates that's great

[02:59.66] It's payback, Russell Wilson falling way back

[03:02.15] In the draft, turn nothing into something, still can make that

[03:05.38] Straw into gold chump, I will spin Rumpelstiltskin in a haystack

[03:08.38] Maybe I need a straightjacket, face facts

[03:11.14] I am nuts for real, but I'm okay with that

[03:13.38] It's nothing, I'm still friends with the

[03:14.29] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

[03:18.05] Get along with the voices inside of my head

[03:21.79] You're trying to save me, stop holding your breath

[03:26.83] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy

[03:31.04] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

[03:35.32] Get along with the voices inside of my head

[03:39.31] You're trying to save me, stop holding your breath

[03:44.55] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy

[03:48.56] Well, that's nothing

[03:57.05] Well, that's nothing