Eminem, Rihanna - The Monster lyrics

I'm friends with the monster
That's under my bed
Get along with the voices inside of my head
You're tryin' to save me
Stop holdin' your breath
And you think I'm crazy, yeah
You think I'm crazy

I wanted the fame but not
The cover of Newsweek
Oh well, guess beggars can't be choosey
Wanted to receive attention for my music
Wanted to be left alone in public, excuse me
For wantin' my cake, and eat it too
And wantin' it both ways
Fame made me a balloon 'cause my ego inflated
When I blew, see, but it was confusing
'Cause all I wanted to do's be
The Bruce Lee of loose leaf abused ink
Used it as a tool when I blew steam
Whoo! Hit the lottery, ooh-wee!


But with what I gave up
To get it was bittersweet
It was like winnin' a used mink
Ironic 'cause I think I'm gettin' so
Huge I need a shrink
I'm beginnin' to lose sleep: one sheep
Two sheep
Goin' coo-coo and kooky as Kool Keith
But I'm actually weirder than you think
'cause I'm

I'm friends with the monster
That's under my bed
Get along with the voices inside of my head
You're tryin' to save me
Stop holdin' your breath
And you think I'm crazy, yeah
You think I'm crazy well, that's nothin'

(Yoo ooh, ooh ooh, Yoo ooh, ooh ooh)
(Yoo ooh, ooh ooh) well, that's nothin'
(Yoo ooh, ooh ooh, Yoo ooh, ooh ooh)
(Yoo ooh, ooh ooh, Yoo ooh, ooh ooh)

Now, I ain't much of a poet
But I know somebody once told
Me to seize the moment
And don't squander it 'cause you
Never know when it all
Could be over tomorrow, so I keep conjurin'
Sometimes I wonder where these
Thoughts spawn from
Yeah, ponderin'll do you wonders
No wonder you're losin' your mind
The way it wanders
Yodel-odel ay hee hoo! I think it
Went wanderin' off down yonder
And stumbled onto Jeff VanVonderen
'Cause I need an interventionist
To intervene between me and this monster
And save me from myself and all this conflict
'Cause the very thing that I love's killin'
Me and I can't conquer it
My OCD's conkin' me in the head
Keep knockin'
Nobody's home, I'm sleepwalkin'
I'm just relayin' what the voice
In my head's sayin'
Don't shoot the messenger
I'm just friends with the

I'm friends with the monster
That's under my bed
Get along with the voices inside of my head
You're tryin' to save me
Stop holdin' your breath
And you think I'm crazy, yeah
You think I'm crazy well, that's nothin'

(Yoo ooh, ooh ooh, Yoo ooh, ooh ooh)
(Yoo ooh, ooh ooh) well, that's nothin'
(Yoo ooh, ooh ooh, Yoo ooh, ooh ooh)
(Yoo ooh, ooh ooh, Yoo ooh, ooh ooh)

Call me crazy, but I have this vision
One day that
I'll walk amongst you a regular civilian
But until then, drums get killed and
I'm comin' straight at MCs
Blood gets spilled and
I'll take you back to the days that
I'd get on a Dre track
Give every kid who got
Played that pumped-up feelin'
And shit to say back to
The kids who played him
I ain't here to save the fuckin' children
But if one kid out of a hundred million
Who are goin' through a struggle
Feels it and relates, that's great
It's payback, Russell Wilson fallin' way back
In the draft, turn nothin' into somethin'
Still can make that straw into gold, chump
I will spin Rumpelstiltskin in a haystack
Maybe I need a straightjacket
Face facts: I am nuts for real
But I'm okay with that
It's nothin', I'm still friends with the

I'm friends with the monster
That's under my bed
Get along with the voices inside of my head
You're tryin' to save me
Stop holdin' your breath
And you think I'm crazy, yeah
You think I'm crazy
I'm friends with the monster
That's under my bed
(Get along with) Get along with the
Voices inside of my head
(You're tryin' to) You're tryin' to save me
Stop holdin' your breath
(And you think) And you
Think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
Well, that's nothin'

(Yoo ooh, ooh ooh, Yoo ooh, ooh ooh)
(Yoo ooh, ooh ooh) well, that's nothin'
(Yoo ooh, ooh ooh, Yoo ooh, ooh ooh)
(Yoo ooh, ooh ooh, Yoo ooh, ooh ooh)