The Monster
[00:03.61] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[00:07.61] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[00:12.61] You're trying to save me, stop holding your breath
[00:16.87] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[00:19.11] I wanted the fame but not the cover of Newsweek
[00:21.61] Oh well, guess beggars can't be choosey
[00:23.11] Wanted to receive attention for my music
[00:26.36] Wanted to be left alone in public, excuse me
[00:29.36] For wantin' my cake, and eat it too, and wantin' it both ways
[00:31.61] Fame made me a balloon ‘cause my ego inflated
[00:32.86] When I blew, see, but it was confusing
[00:35.63] ‘Cause all I wanted to do's be the Bruce Lee of loose leaf
[00:38.61] Abused ink, used it as a tool when I blew steam
[00:39.86] Ooh! Hit the lottery, ooh-wee!
[00:39.86] But with what I gave up to get it was bittersweet
[00:43.62] It was like winnin' a used mink
[00:46.12] Ironic ‘cause I think I'm gettin' so huge I need a shrink
[00:48.61] I'm beginnin' to lose sleep: one sheep, two sheep
[00:50.11] Going coo-coo and kooky as Kool Keith
[00:52.61] But I'm actually weirder than you think, ‘cause I'm
[00:55.61] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[01:00.11] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[01:04.86] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[01:09.10] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[01:11.87] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:14.36] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:18.87] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:20.86] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:28.11] Now, I ain't much of a poet
[01:29.86] But I know somebody once told me to seize the moment
[01:31.37] And don't squander it
[01:33.61] ‘Cause you never know when it all could be over tomorrow
[01:34.86] So I keep conjurin'
[01:36.86] Sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from
[01:38.61] Yeah, ponderin' will do you wonders
[01:41.11] No wonder you're losing your mind, the way it wanders
[01:41.86] Yodel-odel-ay-hee-hoo!
[01:43.36] I think it went wanderin' off down yonder
[01:45.11] And stumbled onto Jeff VanVonderen
[01:46.37] ‘Cause I need an interventionist
[01:48.61] To intervene between me and this monster
[01:50.36] And save me from myself and all this conflict
[01:52.86] ‘Cause the very thing that I love's killing me
[01:54.36] And I can't conquer it
[01:55.86] My OCD is conkin' me in the head, keep knockin'
[01:57.61] Nobody's home, I'm sleepwalkin'
[01:59.12] I'm just relayin' what the voice in my head's sayin'
[02:01.61] Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the
[02:03.36] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[02:07.11] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[02:13.61] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[02:18.11] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[02:20.12] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:22.36] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:25.86] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:32.36] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:38.62] Call me crazy, but I have this vision
[02:41.61] One day that I'll walk amongst you a regular civilian
[02:43.85] But until then, drums get killed and
[02:44.86] I'm comin' straight at MC's, blood gets spilled and
[02:48.36] I'll take it back to the days that I'd get on a Dre track
[02:50.61] Give every kid who got played that pumped-up feelin'
[02:53.36] And shit to say back to the kids who played him
[02:54.86] I ain't here to save the fuckin' children
[02:56.62] But if one kid out of a hundred million
[02:58.36] Who are going through a struggle feels it
[03:00.86] And relates, that's great, it's payback, Russell Wilson
[03:02.61] Falling way back in the draft
[03:03.87] Turn nothin' into somethin', still can
[03:05.60] Make that, straw into gold chump, I will spin
[03:08.11] Rumpelstiltskin in a haystack
[03:10.12] Maybe I need a straight jacket, face facts
[03:11.86] I am nuts for real, but I'm okay with that
[03:13.87] It's nothin', I'm still friends with the
[03:15.12] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[03:20.86] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[03:24.87] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[03:27.36] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[03:31.61] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[03:35.61] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[03:40.36] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[03:44.87] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[03:49.11] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[03:52.62] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[03:58.11] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[04:00.86] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
