The Monster Eminem, Rihanna

[00:00.45] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed [00:04.20] Get along with the voices inside of my head [00:08.73] You trying to save me, stop holding your breath [00:13.14] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy [00:18.36] I wanted the fame, but not the cover of Newsweek [00:20.59] Oh well, guess beggars can't be choosey [00:22.78] Wanted to receive attention for my music [00:24.80] Wanted to be left alone, public excuse me [00:27.19] Been wanting my cake, I need it too, wanting it both ways [00:29.66] Fame made me a balloon cause my ego inflated [00:31.74] When I blew seep it was confusing [00:33.59] 'Cause all I wanted to do is be the Bruce Lee of loose leaf [00:36.29] Abused ink, used it as a tool when I blew steam [00:39.03] Ooh, hit the lottery, oh wee [00:40.70] With what I gave up to get was bittersweet [00:42.76] It was like winning a huge meet [00:44.49] Ironic 'cause I think I'm getting so huge I need a shrink [00:46.67] I'm beginning to lose sleep, one sheep, two sheep [00:48.89] Going cucko and cuckier as Kool Keith [00:50.64] But I'm actually weirder than you think, 'cause I'm [00:52.80] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed [00:56.71] Get along with the voices inside of my head [01:01.09] You trying to save me, stop holding your breath [01:05.41] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy [01:09.92] Well, that's nothing [01:13.11] [01:18.60] Well, that's nothing [01:23.20] [01:27.83] Now I ain't much of a poet, but I know somebody once told me to seize the moment [01:31.15] And don't squander it, 'cause you never know when it could all be over [01:33.80] Tomorrow so I keep conjuring, sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from [01:37.52] (Yeah, ponder it, Do you wonder there's no wonder you're losing your mind the way [01:40.72] You're brought up?) [01:42.15] I think you've been wandering off down yonder and stumbled upon Jeff VanVonderen [01:46.02] 'Cause I needed an intervention in this to intervene between me and this monster [01:50.06] And save me from myself and all this conflict [01:52.00] 'Cause the very things that I love is killing me and I can't conquer it [01:54.89] My OCD is conking me in the head [01:57.15] Keep knocking, nobody's home, I'm sleepwalking [01:59.48] I'm just relaying what the voice of my head saying [02:01.59] Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the [02:03.15] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed [02:06.54] Get along with the voices inside of my head [02:10.84] You trying to save me, stop holding your breath [02:15.14] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy [02:19.65] Well, that's nothing [02:22.87] [02:28.28] Well, that's nothing [02:33.16] [02:38.14] Call me crazy, but I had this vision [02:39.92] One day that I'd walk amongst you regular civilians [02:42.47] But until then drums get killed I'm coming straight at [02:44.92] MCs, blood get spilled and I take it back [02:47.22] To the days that I get on a Dre track [02:48.94] Give every kid who got played at [02:50.46] Pumped the villian and shit that say back [02:52.27] To the kids who played 'em [02:53.99] I ain't here to save the fucking children [02:55.38] But if one kid out of a hundred million [02:57.22] Who are going through a struggle feels and relates that's great [03:00.02] It's payback, Russell Wilson falling way back [03:02.58] In the draft, turn nothing into something, still can make that [03:05.48] Straw in the gold chump I will spend Rumpelstiltskin in a hay stack [03:09.10] Maybe I need a straightjacket, face facts [03:11.60] I am nuts for real, but I'm okay with that [03:13.66] It's nothing, I'm still friends with the [03:15.23] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed [03:18.66] Get along with the voices inside of my head [03:22.82] You trying to save me, stop holding your breath [03:27.25] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy [03:31.85] I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed [03:35.98] Get along with the voices inside of my head [03:40.37] You trying to save me, stop holding your breath [03:44.76] And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy [03:49.17] Well, that's nothing [03:53.04] [03:57.96] Well, that's nothing [03:59.09]