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The Monster

by Eminemon Curtain Call 2

“The Monster” is Eminem’s fourth single from The Marshall Mathers LP 2. Incidentally, it also marks the fourth time Eminem and Rihanna have collaborated.

This dark and emotional track has Eminem considering… Read More [Intro: 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

[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 wantin' my cake, and eat it too, and wantin' 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

Woo! 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' coo-coo and kooky as Kool Keith

But I'm actually weirder than you think, 'cause I'm—

[Chorus: Rihanna, Rihanna & Bebe Rexha]

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'

[Post-Chorus: Rihanna, Bebe Rexha]

New-hoo, ooh-hoo

Well, that's nothin'

New-hoo, ooh-hoo

[Verse 2: Eminem, Bebe Rexha]

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 conjurin'

Sometimes, I wonder where these thoughts spawn from

Yeah, ponderin'll do you wonders, no wonder

You're losin' your mind, the way it wanders

(New-hoo, ooh-hoo) Yodel-odel-ay-hee-hoo!

I think it went 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 sleepwalkin'

I'm just relayin' what the voice in my head's sayin'

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

[Chorus: Rihanna, Rihanna & Bebe Rexha]

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'

[Post-Chorus: Rihanna, Bebe Rexha]

New-hoo, ooh-hoo

Well, that's nothin'

New-hoo, ooh-hoo

[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 comin' straight at

MCs, blood gets spilled then I'll

Take you 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 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 straightjacket, face facts:

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

It's nothin', I'm still friends with the—

[Chorus: Rihanna, Eminem, Rihanna & Eminem]

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 I'm)

And you think I'm crazy

Yeah, you think I'm crazy

Well, that's nothin'

[Post-Chorus: Rihanna & Eminem, Bebe Rexha]

New-hoo, ooh-hoo

Well, that's nothin'

New-hoo, ooh-hoo