The Monster
[00:03.33] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[00:07.25] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[00:11.50] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[00:16.01] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[00:20.90] I wanted the fame but not the cover of Newsweek
[00:23.39] Oh well, guess beggars can't be choosey
[00:25.65] Wanted to receive attention for my music
[00:27.65] Wanted to be left alone in public, excuse me
[00:29.90] For wantin' my cake, and eat it too,
[00:31.41] and wantin' it both ways
[00:32.40] Fame made me a balloon ‘cause my ego inflated
[00:34.65] When I blew, see, but it was confusing
[00:36.16] ‘Cause all I wanted to do's be
[00:37.65] the Bruce Lee of loose leaf
[00:39.17] Abused ink, used it as a tool when I blew steam
[00:41.90] Ooh! Hit the lottery, ooh-wee!
[00:43.40] But with what I gave up to get it was bittersweet
[00:45.55] It was like winnin' a used mink
[00:47.15] Ironic ‘cause I think I'm gettin' so huge I need a shrink
[00:49.30] I'm beginnin' to lose sleep: one sheep, two sheep
[00:51.80] Going coo-coo and kooky as Kool Keith
[00:53.55] But I'm actually weirder than you think, ‘cause I'm—
[00:55.55] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[00:59.56] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[01:04.05] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[01:08.05] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[01:12.55] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:17.05] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:21.30] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[01:25.80] Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh x3
[01:30.43] Now, I ain't much of a poet
[01:31.69] But I know somebody once told me to seize the moment
[01:33.69] And don't squander it
[01:35.19] ‘Cause you never know when it all could be over tomorrow
[01:36.94] So I keep conjurin'
[01:38.19] Sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from
[01:40.18] Yeah, ponderin' will do you wonders
[01:41.83] No wonder you're losing your mind, the way it wanders
[01:44.58] Yodel-odel-ay-hee-hoo!
[01:45.58] I think it went wanderin' off down yonder
[01:47.22] And stumbled onto Jeff VanVonderen
[01:48.97] ‘Cause I need an interventionist
[01:50.73] To intervene between me and this monster
[01:52.72] And save me from myself and all this conflict
[01:54.97] ‘Cause the very thing that I love's killing me
[01:56.72] And I can't conquer it
[01:57.97] My OCD is conkin' me in the head, keep knockin'
[02:00.48] Nobody's home, I'm sleepwalkin'
[02:02.48] I'm just relayin' what the voice in my head's sayin'
[02:03.97] Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the—
[02:05.97] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[02:09.22] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[02:13.73] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[02:17.98] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[02:22.23] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:26.47] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:30.98] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:35.23] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[02:41.11] Call me crazy, but I have this vision
[02:42.87] One day that I'll walk amongst you a regular civilian
[02:45.36] But until then, drums get killed and
[02:47.01] I'm comin' straight at MC's, blood gets spilled and
[02:49.42] I'll take it back to the days that I'd get on a Dre track
[02:51.66] Give every kid who got played that pumped-up feelin'
[02:54.06] And shit to say back to the kids who played him
[02:56.30] I ain't here to save the fuckin' children
[02:57.81] But if one kid out of a hundred million
[03:00.31] Who are going through a struggle feels it
[03:01.81] And relates, that's great, it's payback, Russell Wilson
[03:04.56] Falling way back in the draft
[03:06.06] Turn nothin' into somethin', still can
[03:07.81] Make that, straw into gold chump, I will spin
[03:10.06] Rumpelstiltskin in a haystack
[03:12.06] Maybe I need a straight jacket, face facts
[03:14.06] I am nuts for real, but I'm okay with that
[03:16.05] It's nothin', I'm still friends with the—
[03:18.06] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[03:21.31] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[03:25.80] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[03:30.06] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[03:34.56] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
[03:38.31] Get along with the voices inside of my head
[03:42.81] You're tryin' to save me, stop holdin' your breath
[03:46.81] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
[03:51.81] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[03:56.06] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[04:00.56] Well, that's nothin' (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[04:04.81] Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh x3
