Eminem feat. Rihanna – The Monster

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 trying to save me

Stop holding 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 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 is be

The Bruce Lee of loose leaf

Abusedink

Used it as a tool when I blew steam

Wooh!

Hit the lottery, oh wee

But with what I gave up to get was bittersweet

It was like winning a used me

Ironic ’cause I think I’m getting so huge

I need a shrink

I’m beginning to lose sleep:

One sheep, two sheep

Going cuckoo and cooky as Kool Keith

But I’m actually weirder than you think

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 holding your breath

And you think I’m crazy

Yeah you think I’m crazy

Well, that’s nothing

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Well, that’s nothing

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No, 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, ponder it, do you want this?

It’s no wonder you’re losing your mind

The way it wanders

Yo-lo-lo-lo-yee-whoo

I think you’ve been 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’s conking me in the head

Keep knocking, nobody’s home

I’m sleepwalking

I’m just relaying what the voice

In my head’s saying

Don’t shoot the messenger

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 holding your breath

And you think I’m crazy

Yeah you think I’m crazy

Well, that’s nothing

Oh

Oh

Oh

Well, that’s nothing

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Oh

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Call me crazy, but I had this vision

One day that I’d walk amongst

You a regular civilian

But until then drums get killed

And I’m coming straight at

MCs blood get spilled and I

Take it back to the days

That I 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 ’em

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

And then 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 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 holding 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 the voices

Inside of my head

You’re trying to save me

Stop holding your breath

And you think I’m crazy

Yeah you think I’m crazy

Well, that’s nothing

Oh

Oh

Oh

Well, that’s nothing

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