the-monster

Chourus

I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

Get along with the voices inside of my head

You're trying to save me, stop holdin' your breath

And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy

 

[Verse 1: Eminem]

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 wanting my cake, and eat it too, and wanting 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

Hit the lottery, ooh-wee

But with what I gave up to get it was bittersweet

It was like winning a used mink

Ironic cause I think I'm getting so huge I need a shrink

I'm beginning to lose sleep

One sheep, two sheep

Going coo-coo and kooky as Kool Keith

But I'm actually weirder than you think

Cause I'm... Back to Chorus

 

[Hook]

 

[Bridge: Rihanna] X2

Well, that's nothing

 

[Verse 2: Eminem]

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 conjuring

Sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from

(Yeah, pondering'll do you wonders

No wonder you're losing your mind, the way it wanders)

Yodel-odel-ay-hee-hoo!

I think it went wandering 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 killing me and I can't conquer it

My OCD is conking me in the head, keep knockin'

Nobody's home, I'm sleepwalkin'

I'm just relaying what the voice in my head is saying

Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the...

 

[Hook + Bridge]

 

[Verse 3: Eminem]

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

Coming straight at MCs, blood gets spilled and I'll

Take it 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 fucking children

But if one kid out of a hundred million

Who are going through a struggle feels it and

Relates, that's great, it's payback, Russell Wilson

Falling way back in the draft, turn nothing into something, still can

Make that, straw into gold chump, I will spin

Rumpelstiltskin in a haystack

Maybe I need a straight jacket, face facts

I am nuts for real, but I'm okay with that

It's nothing, I'm still friends with the...

 

[Hook + Bridge]