Eminem ft. Rihanna - The Monster
[00:03.64] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[00:07.64] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[00:12.14] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[00:16.39] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[00:21.39] I wanted the fame but not the cover of Newsweek
[00:23.64] Oh well, guess beggars can't be choosey
[00:25.64] Wanted to receive attention for my music
[00:27.89] Wanted to be left alone in public, excuse me
[00:30.14] For wantin' my cake, and eat it too, and wantin' it both ways
[00:32.64] Fame made me a balloon 'cause my ego inflated
[00:34.89] When I blew, see, but it was confusing
[00:36.64] 'Cause all I wanted to do's be the Bruce Lee of loose leaf
[00:39.89] Abused ink, used it as a tool when I blew steam
[00:42.39] Whoo! Hit the lottery, ooh-wee
[00:43.64] But with what I gave up to get it was bittersweet
[00:45.64] It was like winnin' a used mink
[00:47.39] Ironic 'cause I think I'm gettin' so huge I need a shrink
[00:49.39] I'm beginnin' to lose sleep: one sheep, two sheep
[00:51.89] Goin' coo-coo and kooky as Kool Keith
[00:53.64] But I'm actually weirder than you think, 'cause I'm—
[00:55.89] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[01:00.14] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[01:04.64] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[01:08.64] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[01:13.14] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:17.14] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:21.89] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:25.64] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:31.28] Now, I ain't much of a poet
[01:31.78] But I know somebody once told me to seize the moment
[01:34.42] And don't squander it 'cause you never know when it all
[01:36.42] Could be over tomorrow, so I keep conjurin'
[01:38.17] Sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from
[01:40.66] Yeah, ponderin'll do you wonders
[01:41.91] No wonder you're losin' your mind, the way it wanders
[01:44.16] Yodel-odel-ay-hee-hoo! I think it went wanderin' off down yonder
[01:47.66] And stumbled onto Jeff VanVonderen
[01:49.41] 'Cause I need an interventionist
[01:50.91] To intervene between me and this monster
[01:52.91] And save me from myself and all this conflict
[01:55.16] 'Cause the very thing that I love's killin' me and I can't conquer it
[01:58.16] My OCD's conkin' me in the head, keep knockin'
[02:00.91] Nobody's home, I'm sleepwalkin'
[02:02.66] I'm just relayin' what the voice in my head's sayin'
[02:04.66] Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the—
[02:06.41] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[02:09.66] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[02:14.16] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[02:18.41] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[02:23.16] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:27.16] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:31.91] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:36.16] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:41.29] Call me crazy, but I have this vision, one day that
[02:43.54] I'll walk amongst you a regular civilian
[02:45.54] But until then, drums get killed and
[02:47.29] I'm comin' straight at MC's, blood gets spilled and
[02:49.79] I'll take you back to the days that I'd get on a Dre track
[02:51.79] Give every kid who got played that pumped-up feelin'
[02:54.29] And shit to say back to the kids who played him
[02:56.79] I ain't here to save the fuckin' children
[02:58.29] But if one kid out of a hundred million
[03:00.29] Who are goin' through a struggle, feels it and relates, that's great!
[03:03.29] It's payback, Russell Wilson fallin' way back
[03:05.54] In the draft, turn nothin' into somethin', still can make that
[03:08.54] Straw into gold, chump, I will spin—Rumpelstiltskin in a haystack
[03:12.54] Maybe I need a straightjacket
[03:14.04] Face facts: I am nuts for real, but I'm okay with that!
[03:16.79] It's nothin', I'm still friends with the—
[03:18.29] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[03:21.54] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[03:26.29] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[03:30.29] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[03:35.04] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[03:38.54] (Get along with) Get along with the voices inside of my head
[03:42.79] (You're tryin' to) You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[03:47.29] (And you think) And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[03:52.29] Well, that's nothin'
[03:53.54] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[03:56.54] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[04:01.04] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[04:05.04] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
