[ti:The Monster (feat. Rihanna) ] [ar:Eminem] [al:] [00:00.64]I'm friends with the monster [00:02.57]That's under my bed [00:04.82]Get along with the voices inside of my head [00:08.69] [00:09.25]You're trying to save me [00:11.18]Stop holding your breath [00:13.49]And you think I'm crazy [00:15.05] [00:15.74]Yeah, you think I'm crazy (crazy) [00:18.30] [00:18.86]I wanted the fame, but not the cover of Newsweek [00:20.92]Oh well, guess beggars can't be choosey [00:23.23]Wanted to receive attention for my music [00:25.10]Wanted to be left alone, the public excuse me [00:27.41]Been wanting my cake, I need it too, wanting it both ways [00:29.84]Fame may be a balloon cause my ego inflated [00:31.96]When I blew seep it was confusing [00:33.60]Cause all I wanted to do is be the Bruce Lee of loose leaf [00:36.66]Abused ink, used it as a tool when I blew steam [00:39.59]Hit the lottery, oh wee [00:40.90]With what I gave up to get was bittersweet [00:42.90]It was like winning a huge meet [00:44.46]Ironic cause I think I'm getting so big I need a shrink [00:47.02]I'm beginning to lose sleep: one sheep, two sheep [00:49.14]Going cucko and cuckier as Kool Keith [00:50.95]But I'm actually weirder than you think [00:52.82]Cause I'm [00:53.26]I'm friends with the monster [00:54.82]That's under my bed [00:56.88]Get along with the voices inside of my head [01:01.31]You're trying to save me [01:03.37]Stop holding your breath [01:05.67]And you think I'm crazy [01:07.74]Yeah, you think I'm crazy [01:09.61] [01:10.23]Well, that's not fair [01:10.93] [01:19.29]Well, that's not fair [01:20.72] [01:28.21]Now I ain't much of a poet [01:29.41]But I know somebody once told me to seize the moment [01:31.35]And don't squander it [01:32.22]Cause you never know when it could all be over [01:34.22]' so I keep conjuring [01:35.09]Sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from [01:37.59](Yeah, ponder it [01:38.53]Do you wonder there's no wonder [01:39.84]you're losing your mind the way you're brought up?) [01:41.54] [01:43.23]I think you've been wandering off [01:44.63]down your and stumbled upon Jeff [01:45.66] [01:46.72]Cause I needed an intervention in this to [01:48.66]intervene between me and this monster [01:50.28]And save me from myself and all this conflict [01:52.34]Cause the very things that [01:53.65]I love is killing me and I can't conquer it [01:55.39]My OCD is ' me in the head [01:57.47]Keep knocking, nobody's home, I'm sleepwalking [01:59.28]I'm just relaying what the voice of my head saying [02:01.65]Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the [02:03.28]I'm friends with the monster [02:04.71]That's under my bed [02:06.64]Get along with the voices inside of my head [02:11.14]You're trying to save me [02:13.26]Stop holding your breath [02:15.50]And you think I'm crazy [02:17.63]Yeah, you think I'm crazy [02:19.44] [02:20.00]Well, that's not fair [02:21.43] [02:28.99]Well, that's not fair [02:30.17] [02:38.72]Call me crazy, but I had this vision [02:40.15]One day that I'd walk amongst you regular civilians [02:42.59]But until then drums get killed I'm coming straight at [02:45.27]Emcees, blood get spilled and I [02:47.02]Take it back to the days that I get on a Dre track [02:49.39]Give every kid who got played gat [02:50.70]Pumped the villain and shit that say back [02:52.51]To the kids who played ‘em [02:53.89]I ain't here to save the fucking children [02:55.32]But if one kid out of a hundred million [02:57.51]Who are going through a struggle feels and relates that's great [03:00.38]It's payback, Russell Wilson falling way back [03:02.87]In the draft, turn nothing into something, still can make that [03:05.81]Straw in the gold chump I will spend [03:07.62]' in a hay stack [03:09.42] [03:09.93]Maybe I need a straightjacket, face facts [03:11.67]I am nuts for real, but I'm okay with that [03:13.98]It's nothing, I'm still friends with a [03:15.48]I'm friends with the monster [03:16.66]That's under my bed [03:18.66]Get along with the voices inside of my head [03:23.09]You're trying to save me [03:25.15]Stop holding your breath [03:27.46]And you think I'm crazy [03:29.58]Yeah, you think I'm crazy [03:31.45] [03:32.08]I'm friends with the monster [03:34.01]That's under my bed [03:36.26]Get along with the voices inside of my head [03:40.63]You're trying to save me [03:42.75]Stop holding your breath [03:44.99]And you think I'm crazy [03:47.12]Yeah, you think I'm crazy [03:48.80] [03:49.57]Well, that's not fair Well, that's not fair