[00:00:00] I'm friends with the monster [00:00:02] That's under my bed [00:00:04] Get along with the voices inside of my head [00:00:07] You're trying to save me [00:00:09] Stop holding your breath [00:00:11] And you think I'm crazy [00:00:13] Yeah you think I'm crazy [00:00:16] I wanted the fame [00:00:16] But not the cover of Newsweek [00:00:17] Oh well guess beggers can't be choosey [00:00:19] Wanted to receive attention for my music [00:00:21] Wanted to be left alone in public excuse me [00:00:23] Been wanting my cake And eat it too [00:00:24] And wanting it both ways [00:00:25] Fame made me a balloon cause my ego inflated [00:00:27] When I blew seep and it was confusing [00:00:28] Cause all I wanted to do is be [00:00:29] The Bruce Lee of loose leaf [00:00:31] Abused ink used it as a tool when I blew steam [00:00:33] Hit the lottery oh wee [00:00:34] With what I gave up to get was bittersweet [00:00:36] It was like winning a huge meet [00:00:37] Ironic Cause I think I'm getting [00:00:38] So huge I need a shrink [00:00:39] I'm beginning to lose sleep [00:00:40] One sheep two sheep [00:00:41] Going cuckoo and cookey as Kool Keith [00:00:43] But I'm actually weirder than you think [00:00:44] Cause I'm [00:00:44] I'm friends with the monster [00:00:46] That's under my bed [00:00:48] Get along with the voices inside of my head [00:00:52] You're trying to save me [00:00:53] Stop holding your breath [00:00:55] And you think I'm crazy [00:00:57] Yeah you think I'm crazy [00:00:59] I'm friends with the monster [00:01:01] That's under my bed [00:01:02] Get along with the voices inside of my head [00:01:06] You're trying to save me [00:01:08] Stop holding your breath [00:01:10] And you think I'm crazy [00:01:12] Yeah you think I'm crazy [00:01:14] Well that's nothing [00:01:15] Oh [00:01:17] Oh [00:01:19] Oh [00:01:21] Oh [00:01:23] Oh [00:01:25] Oh [00:01:27] Oh [00:01:29] Now I ain't much of a poet [00:01:30] But I know somebody once told me to seize the moment [00:01:32] And don't squander it [00:01:33] Cause you never know when it could all be over [00:01:34] Tomorrow so I keep conjuring [00:01:35] Sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from [00:01:37] Yeah ponder it do you want this [00:01:39] There's no wonder you're losing your mind [00:01:40] The way you're wandering [00:01:41] I think you've been wandering off down yonder [00:01:43] And stumbled onto Jeff VanVonderen [00:01:44] Cause I needed an interventionist to intervene [00:01:46] Between me and this monster [00:01:48] And save me from myself and all this conflict [00:01:50] Cause the very thing that I love is killing me [00:01:51] And I can't conquer it [00:01:52] My OCD is conking me in the head [00:01:54] Keep knocking nobody's home [00:01:55] I'm sleepwalking [00:01:56] I'm just relaying what the voice in my head saying [00:01:58] Don't shoot the messenger [00:01:58] I'm just friends with the [00:01:59] I'm friends with the monster [00:02:00] That's under my bed [00:02:02] Get along with the voices inside of my head [00:02:05] You're trying to save me [00:02:07] Stop holding your breath [00:02:09] And you think I'm crazy [00:02:11] Yeah you think I'm crazy [00:02:13] I'm friends with the monster [00:02:15] That's under my bed [00:02:16] Get along with the voices inside of my head [00:02:20] You're trying to save me [00:02:22] Stop holding your breath [00:02:24] And you think I'm crazy [00:02:26] Yeah you think I'm crazy [00:02:28] Well that's nothing [00:02:29] Oh [00:02:31] Oh [00:02:33] Oh [00:02:35] Oh [00:02:37] Oh [00:02:39] Oh [00:02:40] Oh [00:02:42] Oh [00:02:43] Call me crazy [00:02:44] But I had this vision [00:02:45] One day that I'd walk amongst [00:02:46] You a regular civilian [00:02:46] But until then [00:02:47] Drums get killed and I'm Coming straight at [00:02:49] Emcees blood get spilled and I [00:02:50] Take it back to the days that [00:02:51] I get on a Dre track [00:02:52] Give every kid who got played at [00:02:53] Pumped the feeling [00:02:54] And sh*t to say back