Eminem - The Monster
[00:00.02] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[00:03.94] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[00:08.54] You're trying to save me, stop holding your breath
[00:12.68] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[00:17.53] I wanted the fame but not the cover of Newsweek
[00:20.19] Oh well, guess beggars can't be choosey
[00:22.75] Wanted to receive attention for my music
[00:24.81] Wanted to be left alone in public, excuse me
[00:26.92] For wantin' my cake, and eat it too, and wantin' it both ways
[00:29.41] Fame made me a balloon ‘cause my ego inflated
[00:31.75] When I blew, see, but it was confusing
[00:33.39] ‘Cause all I wanted to do's be the Bruce Lee of loose leaf
[00:36.14] Abused ink, used it as a tool when I blew steam
[00:38.94] Ooh! Hit the lottery, ooh-wee!
[00:40.60] But with what I gave up to get it was bittersweet
[00:42.59] It was like winnin' a used mink
[00:44.37] Ironic ‘cause I think I'm gettin' so huge I need a shrink
[00:46.55] I'm beginnin' to lose sleep: one sheep, two sheep
[00:48.98] Going coo-coo and kooky as Kool Keith
[00:50.62] But I'm actually weirder than you think, ‘cause I'm
[00:52.34] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[00:56.49] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[01:00.84] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[01:05.25] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[01:09.81] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:13.79] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:18.47] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:22.34] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:27.70] Now, I ain't much of a poet
[01:28.49] But I know somebody once told me to seize the moment
[01:30.73] And don't squander it
[01:31.53] ‘Cause you never know when it all could be over tomorrow
[01:33.97] So I keep conjurin'
[01:34.78] Sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from
[01:37.09] Yeah, ponderin' will do you wonders
[01:38.67] No wonder you're losing your mind, the way it wanders
[01:40.78] Yodel-odel-ay-hee-hoo!
[01:42.34] I think it went wanderin' off down yonder
[01:44.01] And stumbled onto Jeff VanVonderen
[01:45.73] ‘Cause I need an interventionist
[01:47.45] To intervene between me and this monster
[01:49.52] And save me from myself and all this conflict
[01:51.58] ‘Cause the very thing that I love's killing me
[01:53.41] And I can't conquer it
[01:54.46] My OCD is conkin' me in the head, keep knockin'
[01:57.19] Nobody's home, I'm sleepwalkin'
[01:59.10] I'm just relayin' what the voice in my head's sayin'
[02:01.34] Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the
[02:02.11] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[02:05.79] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[02:10.21] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[02:14.49] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[02:19.29] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:23.21] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:28.00] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:31.73] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:38.09] Call me crazy, but I have this vision
[02:39.80] One day that I'll walk amongst you a regular civilian
[02:42.55] But until then, drums get killed and
[02:44.31] I'm comin' straight at MC's, blood gets spilled and
[02:46.41] I'll take it back to the days that I'd get on a Dre track
[02:48.81] Give every kid who got played that pumped-up feelin'
[02:51.35] And shit to say back to the kids who played him
[02:53.48] I ain't here to save the fuckin' children
[02:54.99] But if one kid out of a hundred million
[02:57.13] Who are going through a struggle feels it
[02:58.88] And relates, that's great, it's payback, Russell Wilson
[03:01.64] Falling way back in the draft
[03:03.38] Turn nothin' into somethin', still can
[03:04.77] Make that, straw into gold chump, I will spin
[03:07.41] Rumpelstiltskin in a haystack
[03:09.21] Maybe I need a straight jacket, face facts
[03:11.62] I am nuts for real, but I'm okay with that
[03:13.51] It's nothin', I'm still friends with the
[03:14.20] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[03:17.57] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[03:21.83] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[03:27.07] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[03:31.87] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[03:35.51] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[03:39.90] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[03:44.06] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[03:49.07] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[03:52.42] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[03:56.86] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[04:01.09] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
