the monster ft. 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 ◆wantin' it both ways fame made me a balloon ‘cuz my ego inflated ◆when I blew, see but it was confusing, ‘cuz all I wanted to do's be the Bruce Lee ◆of loose leaf abused ink, used it as a tool when blew steam whoo, ◆hit the lottery ooh- wee but with, what I gave up to get it was bittersweet ◆it was like winnin' a used mink ironic ‘cuz I think I'm getting' 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 cuz 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 holding your breath ●and you think I'm crazy, yeah you think I'm crazy well that's nothin'. ●well that's nothin' ◆Now I ain't much of a poet but somebody once told me to seize the ◆moment and don't squander it ‘cuz you never know when it could all be over ◆tomorrow so I keep conjurin' sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from ◆yeah ponderin'll do you wonders no wonder your losin' your mind the ◆way it wanders, yodalodaleheehoo, I think it went wanderin' ◆off down yonder and stumbled on ‘ta Jeff Van Vonderen, ‘cuz I need a ◆interventionist, to intervene between me and this monster and save me from myself ◆and all this conflict ‘cuz 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) ●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 holding 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 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'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 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 Willson 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 ok with that, it's nuthin' (◆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 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 tryin to save me stop holding your breath ●and you think I'm crazy yeah you think I'm crazy well that's nothin', ●well that's nothin'