[00:00:00] The Monster - Eminem&Rihanna [00:00:00] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed [00:00:04] Get along with the voices inside of my head [00:00:09] You're trying to save me stop holding your breath [00:00:13] And you think I'm crazy yeah you think I'm crazy [00:00:18] I wanted the fame but not the cover of Newsweek [00:00:20] Oh well guess beggars can't be choosey [00:00:23] Wanted to receive attention for my music [00:00:25] Wanted to be left alone in public excuse me [00:00:27] For wanting my cake and eat it too and wanting it both ways [00:00:29] Fame made me a balloon 'cause my ego inflated [00:00:31] When I blew see but it was confusing [00:00:33] 'Cause all I wanted to do is be the Bruce Lee of loose leaf [00:00:36] Abused ink used it as a tool when I blew steam wooh [00:00:39] Hit the lottery oh wee [00:00:41] But with what I gave up to get it was bittersweet [00:00:43] It was like winning a used mink [00:00:44] Ironic 'cause I think I'm getting so huge I need a shrink [00:00:46] I'm beginning to lose sleep one sheep two sheep [00:00:49] Going cuckoo and cooky as Kool Keith [00:00:50] But I'm actually weirder than you think [00:00:52] 'Cause I'm [00:00:52] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed [00:00:57] Get along with the voices inside of my head [00:01:01] You're trying to save me stop holding your breath [00:01:05] And you think I'm crazy yeah you think I'm crazy [00:01:10] Well that's nothing [00:01:19] Well that's nothing [00:01:28] Now I ain't much of a poet but I know somebody once told me [00:01:30] To seize the moment and don't squander it [00:01:32] 'Cause you never know when it all could be over tomorrow [00:01:34] So I keep conjuring sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from [00:01:37] Yeah pondering'll do you wonders [00:01:39] No wonder you're losing your mind the way it wanders [00:01:41] Yoda loda le hee hoo [00:01:42] I think it went wandering off down yonder [00:01:44] And stumbled on 'ta Jeff VanVonderen [00:01:46] 'Cause I need an interventionist [00:01:48] To intervene between me and this monster [00:01:50] And save me from myself and all this conflict [00:01:52] 'Cause the very thing that I love's killing me and [00:01:54] I can't conquer it [00:01:55] My OCD's conking me in the head [00:01:57] Keep knocking nobody's home I'm sleepwalking [00:01:59] I'm just relaying what the voice in my head's saying [00:02:01] Don't shoot the messenger I'm just friends with the [00:02:02] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed [00:02:06] Get along with the voices inside of my head [00:02:11] You're trying to save me stop holding your breath [00:02:15] And you think I'm crazy yeah you think I'm crazy [00:02:19] Well that's nothing [00:02:28] Well that's nothing [00:02:38] Call me crazy but I have this vision [00:02:40] One day that I'd walk amongst you a regular civilian [00:02:42] But until then drums get killed and I'm coming straight at [00:02:45] MC's blood get spilled and I'll [00:02:46] Take you back to the days that I'd get on a Dre track [00:02:49] Give every kid who got played that [00:02:50] Pumped up feeling and sh*t to say back [00:02:52] To the kids who played him [00:02:53] I ain't here to save the f**king children [00:02:55] But if one kid out of a hundred million [00:02:57] Who are going through a struggle feels it and then relates that's great [00:03:00] It's payback Russell Wilson falling way back [00:03:02] In the draft turn nothing into something still can make that [00:03:05] Straw into gold chump I will spin Rumpelstiltskin in a haystack [00:03:09] Maybe I need a straight jacket face facts [00:03:11] I am nuts for real but I'm okay with that [00:03:14] It's nothing I'm still friends with the [00:03:15] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed [00:03:18] Get along with the voices inside of my head [00:03:23] You're trying to save me stop holding your breath [00:03:27] And you think I'm crazy yeah you think I'm crazy [00:03:32] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed [00:03:36] Get along with the voices inside of my head [00:03:40] You're trying to save me stop holding your breath