The Monster - Eminem, Rihanna

[00:01.90] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

[00:04.39] Get along with the voices inside of my head

[00:08.64] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath

[00:12.89] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy

[00:18.39] I wanted the fame but not the cover of Newsweek

[00:20.39] Oh well, guess beggars can't be choosey

[00:22.39] Wanted to receive attention for my music

[00:24.64] Wanted to be left alone in public, excuse me

[00:26.89] For wantin' my cake, and eat it too, and wantin' it both ways

[00:29.15] Fame made me a balloon ‘cause my ego inflated

[00:31.65] When I blew, see, but it was confusing

[00:33.14] ‘Cause all I wanted to do's be the Bruce Lee of loose leaf

[00:36.15] Abused ink, used it as a tool when I blew steam

[00:38.64] Whoo! Hit the lottery, ooh-wee

[00:40.40] But with what I gave up to get it was bittersweet

[00:42.39] It was like winnin' a used mink

[00:43.89] Ironic ‘cause I think I'm gettin' so huge I need a shrink

[00:46.40] I'm beginnin' to lose sleep: one sheep, two sheep

[00:48.64] Goin' coo-coo and kooky as Kool Keith

[00:50.39] But I'm actually weirder than you think, ‘cause I'm—

[00:52.40] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

[00:56.40] Get along with the voices inside of my head

[01:00.90] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath

[01:05.15] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy

[01:09.40] Well, that's nothin'

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[01:18.14] Well, that's nothin'

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[01:27.89] Now, I ain't much of a poet

[01:28.65] But I know somebody once told me to seize the moment

[01:30.90] And don't squander it ‘cause you never know when it all

[01:33.14] Could be over tomorrow, so I keep conjurin'

[01:34.89] Sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from

[01:37.15] Yeah, ponderin'll do you wonders

[01:38.64] No wonder you're losin' your mind, the way it wanders

[01:40.89] Yodel-odel-ay-hee-hoo! I think it went wanderin' off down yonder

[01:43.89] And stumbled onto Jeff VanVonderen

[01:46.35] ‘Cause I need an interventionist

[01:47.64] To intervene between me and this monster

[01:49.64] And save me from myself and all this conflict

[01:51.89] ‘Cause the very thing that I love's killin' me and I can't conquer it

[01:54.64] My OCD's conkin' me in the head, keep knockin'

[01:57.39] Nobody's home, I'm sleepwalkin'

[01:59.15] I'm just relayin' what the voice in my head's sayin'

[02:01.15] Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the—

[02:02.40] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

[02:06.36] Get along with the voices inside of my head

[02:10.85] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath

[02:15.10] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy

[02:19.35] Well, that's nothin'

[02:20.86] .

[02:28.11] Well, that's nothin'

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[02:38.35] Call me crazy, but I have this vision, one day that

[02:40.61] I'll walk amongst you a regular civilian

[02:42.61] But until then, drums get killed and

[02:44.11] I'm comin' straight at MC's, blood gets spilled and

[02:46.10] I'll take you back to the days that I'd get on a Dre track

[02:48.61] Give every kid who got played that pumped-up feelin'

[02:51.10] And shit to say back to the kids who played him

[02:53.35] I ain't here to save the fuckin' children

[02:54.85] But if one kid out of a hundred million

[02:57.11] Who are goin' through a struggle, feels it and relates, that's great!

[03:00.36] It's payback, Russell Wilson fallin' way back

[03:02.35] In the draft, turn nothin' into somethin', still can make that

[03:05.36] Straw into gold, chump, I will spin—Rumpelstiltskin in a haystack

[03:09.35] Maybe I need a straightjacket

[03:10.85] Face facts: I am nuts for real, but I'm okay with that!

[03:13.36] It's nothin', I'm still friends with the—

[03:14.60] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

[03:18.35] Get along with the voices inside of my head

[03:22.86] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath

[03:27.11] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy

[03:31.35] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed (Get along with)

[03:35.86] Get along with the voices inside of my head (You're tryin' to)

[03:40.49] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath (And you think)

[03:44.50] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy

[03:48.75] Well, that's nothin'

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[03:57.50] Well, that's nothin'

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