The Monster Lyrics by Eminem

The Monster Lyrics


    feat. Rihanna

    [Chorus: Rihanna]
    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

    [Eminem]
    I wanted the fame but not the cover of Newsweek
    Oh well, guess beggers can't be choosy
    Wanted to receive attention for my music
    Wanted to be left alone in public, excuse me
    Been wantin my cake and eat it too, I'm wantin it both ways
    Fame made me a balloon, cause my ego inflated
    When I blew seep and it was confusing
    Cause all I wanted to do is be, the Bruce Lee, of loose leaf
    Abused ink, used it as a tool when I blew steam
    OOH! Hit the lottery, ooh-wee
    But with what I gave up to get was bittersweet
    It was like winnin a huge meet
    Ironic cause I think I'm gettin so huge I need a shrink
    I'm beginnin to lose sleep - one sheep, two sheep
    Goin cuckoo and cooky as Kool Keith
    But I'm actually weirder than you think
    Cause I'm

    [Chorus]

    [Interlude: Rihanna]
    Well that's not fair!
    Oh-ohh oh-ohh, oh-ohh oh-ohh
    Oh-ohh oh-ohh, ohh-ohhh-ohhh
    Well that's not fair!
    Oh-ohh oh-ohh, oh-ohh oh-ohh
    Oh-ohh oh-ohh, oh-ohh oh-ohh

    [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 could all be over tomorrow so I keep conjurin
    Sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from
    "Yeah ponder it, and do you wonder?
    It's no wonder you're losin your mind the way you're brought up"
    Yo-dada-ley-hee-hoo! I think you've been 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 sleep-walkin
    I'm just relayin what the voice in my head's sayin
    Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the

    [Chorus]

    [Interlude]

    [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
    comin straight at MC's, blood gets spilled and I
    take it back to the days that, I get on a Dre track
    Give every kid who got played that
    pumped the villian and shit to say back, to the kids who played 'em
    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 straitjacket, face facts
    I am nuts for real, but I'm okay with that!
    It's nothin, I'm still friends with the

    [Chorus] - 2X

    [Interlude]

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