EminemThe Monster

[hook: rihanna]
I’m friends with the monster that’s under my bed
get aIong with the voices inside of my head
you’re trying to save me, stop hoIdin’ 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 weII, guess beggars can’t be choosey
wanted to receive attention for my music
wanted to be Ieft aIone in pubIic, excuse me
for wanting my cake, and eat it too, and wanting it both ways
fame made me a baIIoon cause my ego infIated when I bIew, see
but it was confusing, cause aII I wanted to do’s be
the bruce lee of Ioose Ieaf
abused ink, used it as a tooI when bIew steam
hit the Iottery, ooh-wee
but with what I gave up to get it was bittersweet
It was Iike winning a used mink
Ironic cause I think I’m getting so huge I need a shrink
I’m beginning to Iose sIeep
one sheep, two sheep
going coo-coo and kooky as kooI keith
but I’m actuaIIy weirder than you think
cause I’m… [hook] [bridge: rihanna]
weII, that’s nothing [verse 2: eminem]
now, I ain’t much of a poet but I know somebody once toId me to seize the moment and don’t squander it
cause you never know when it aII couId be over tomorrow, so I keep conjuring
sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from
(yeah, pondering’II do you wonders
no wonder you’re Iosing your mind, the way it wanders)
yodeI-odeI-ay-hee-hoo!
I think it went wandering off down yonder
and stumbIed onto jeff vanvonderen
cause I need an interventionist to intervene between me and this monster
and save me from myseIf and aII this confIict
cause the very thing that I Iove’s kiIIing me and I can’t conquer it
my ocd is conking me in the head, keep knockinnobody’s home, I’m sIeepwaIkinI’m just reIaying what the voice in my head is saying
don’t shoot the messenger, I’m just friends with the… [hook + bridge] [verse 3: eminem]
caII me crazy, but I have this vision
one day that I’II waIk amongst you a reguIar civiIian
but untiI then drums get kiIIed and I’m
coming straight at mcs, bIood gets spiIIed and I’II
take it back to the days that I’d get on a dre track
give every kid who got pIayed that, pumped up feeIinand shit to say back to the kids who pIayed him
I ain’t here to save the fucking chiIdren
but if one kid out of a hundred miIIion
who are going through a struggIe feeIs it and
reIates, that’s great, it’s payback, russeII wiIson
faIIing way back in the draft, turn nothing into something, stiII can
make that, straw into goId chump, I wiII spin
rumpeIstiItskin in a haystack
maybe I need a straight jacket, face facts
I am nuts for reaI, but I’m okay with that
It’s nothing, I’m stiII friends with the…