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The Monster

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The Monster

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[Hook: Rihanna]I'm friends with the monster that's under my bedGet along with the voices inside of my headYou trying to save me, stop holding your breathAnd you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy[Verse 1: Eminem]I wanted the fame, but not the cover of NewsweekOh well, guess beggers can't be chooseyWanted to receive attention for my musicWanted to be left alone, public excuse meBeen wanting my cake, and eat it toofor wanting it both waysFame made me a balloon cause my ego inflatedWhen I blew seep it was confusingCause all I wanted to do is be the Bruce Lee of loose leafAbused ink, used it as a tool when I blew steam, woohHit the lottery, oh weeWith what I gave up to get was bittersweetIt was like winning a huge meetIronic cause I think I'm getting so huge I need a shrinkI'm beginning to lose sleep: one sheep, two sheepGoing cucko and cooky as Kool KeithBut I'm actually weirder than you thinkCause I'm[Hook]Well, that's not fairWell, that's not fair[Verse 2: Eminem]Now I ain't much of a poetBut I know somebody once told meto seize the moment and don't squander itCause you never know when itall could be over tomorrow so I keep conjuringSometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from(Yeah, ponder itDo you wonder there's no wonder you're losing your mindThe way you're brought up?)Yo-lo-lo-lo-yee-whooI think you've been wandering off down yonderAnd stumbled onto Jeff VanVonderenCause I needed an intervention in thisto intervene between me and this monsterAnd save me from myself and all this conflictCause the very thing that I love is killing meand I can't conquer itMy OCD is conking me in the headKeep knocking, nobody's home, I'm sleepwalkingI'm just relaying what the voice of my head sayingDon't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the[Hook]Well, that's not fairWell, that's not fair[Verse 3: Eminem]Call me crazy, but I had this visionOne day that I'd walk amongst you a regular civilianBut until then drums get killed I'm coming straight atEmcees, blood get spilled and ITake it back to the days that I get on a Dre trackGive every kid who got played thatPumped the villian and shit that say backTo the kids who played 'emI ain't here to save the fucking childrenBut if one kid out of a hundred millionWho are going through a struggle feels and relatesthat's greatIt's payback, Russell Wilson falling way backIn the draft, turn nothing into something, still can make thatStraw into gold chumpI will spin Rumpelstiltskin in a hay stackMaybe I need a straightjacket, face factsI am nuts for real, but I'm okay with thatIt's nothing, I'm still friends with the[Hook]Well, that's not fairWell, that's not fair
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