The monster ft. Rihanna

[00:09.00] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

[00:13.54] Get along with the voices inside of my head

[00:17.52] You're trying to save me, stop holding your breath

[00:21.77] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy

[00:26.28] I wanted the fame but not the cover of Newsweek

[00:29.74] Oh well, guess beggars can't be choosey

[00:31.60] Wanted to receive attention for my music

[00:33.46] Wanted to be left alone in public, excuse me

[00:36.11] For wantin' my cake, and eat it too, and wantin' it both ways

[00:38.76] Fame made me a balloon ‘cause my ego inflated

[00:41.16] When I blew, see, but it was confusing

[00:42.49] ‘Cause all I wanted to do's be the Bruce Lee of loose leaf

[00:45.41] Abused ink, used it as a tool when I blew steam

[00:48.07] Ooh! Hit the lottery, ooh-wee!

[00:50.19] But with what I gave up to get it was bittersweet

[00:51.80] It was like winnin' a used mink

[00:53.39] Ironic ‘cause I think I'm gettin' so huge I need a shrink

[00:55.52] I'm beginnin' to lose sleep: one sheep, two sheep

[00:57.64] Going coo-coo and kooky as Kool Keith

[00:59.51] But I'm actually weirder than you think, ‘cause I'm

[01:01.89] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

[01:05.08] Get along with the voices inside of my head

[01:09.32] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath

[01:13.58] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy

[01:18.90] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)

[01:22.62] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)

[01:27.15] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)

[01:31.39] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)

[01:36.97] Now, I ain't much of a poet

[01:38.03] But I know somebody once told me to seize the moment

[01:39.90] And don't squander it

[01:41.21] ‘Cause you never know when it all could be over tomorrow

[01:43.11] So I keep conjurin'

[01:44.43] Sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from

[01:46.28] Yeah, ponderin' will do you wonders

[01:47.88] No wonder you're losing your mind, the way it wanders

[01:50.00] Yodel-odel-ay-hee-hoo!

[01:51.62] I think it went wanderin' off down yonder

[01:53.49] And stumbled onto Jeff VanVonderen

[01:55.08] ‘Cause I need an interventionist

[01:57.21] To intervene between me and this monster

[01:58.80] And save me from myself and all this conflict

[02:00.93] ‘Cause the very thing that I love's killing me

[02:03.04] And I can't conquer it

[02:03.85] My OCD is conkin' me in the head, keep knockin'

[02:06.77] Nobody's home, I'm sleepwalkin'

[02:08.09] I'm just relayin' what the voice in my head's sayin'

[02:10.49] Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the

[02:12.35] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

[02:14.74] Get along with the voices inside of my head

[02:19.26] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath

[02:23.52] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy

[02:28.30] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)

[02:34.41] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)

[02:38.39] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)

[02:40.79] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)

[02:43.21] Call me crazy, but I have this vision

[02:49.05] One day that I'll walk amongst you a regular civilian

[02:51.70] But until then, drums get killed and

[02:53.56] I'm comin' straight at MC's, blood gets spilled and

[02:55.69] I'll take it back to the days that I'd get on a Dre track

[02:58.35] Give every kid who got played that pumped-up feelin'

[03:00.47] And shit to say back to the kids who played him

[03:02.59] I ain't here to save the fuckin' children

[03:04.19] But if one kid out of a hundred million

[03:06.05] Who are going through a struggle feels it

[03:08.16] And relates, that's great, it's payback, Russell Wilson

[03:10.56] Falling way back in the draft

[03:11.89] Turn nothin' into somethin', still can

[03:14.02] Make that, straw into gold chump, I will spin

[03:16.41] Rumpelstiltskin in a haystack

[03:18.00] Maybe I need a straight jacket, face facts

[03:20.66] I am nuts for real, but I'm okay with that

[03:22.52] It's nothin', I'm still friends with the

[03:23.85] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

[03:26.76] Get along with the voices inside of my head

[03:31.31] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath

[03:36.10] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy

[03:40.89] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

[03:44.61] Get along with the voices inside of my head

[03:48.59] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath

[03:53.67] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy

[03:57.39] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)

[04:01.64] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)

[04:06.16] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)

[04:12.80] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)