The Monster (feat. 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

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 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, use it as a tool when I blew steam (Ooh)

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' cuckoo 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'

Well, that's nothin'

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, ponderin'll do you wonders

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

Yodel-odel-ay-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 killing 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'

Well, that's nothin'

Call me crazy, but I had 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, then I take it back to the days that

I'd get on a Dre track, give every kid who got played that

Pumped the villain 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

Turned 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'

Well, that's nothin'