Artist: Eminem f/ Rihanna Album: The Marshall Mathers LP 2 Song: The Monster Typed by: Nickolye16@aol.com [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 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 cuckoo and kooky as Kool Keith But I'm actually weirder than you think Cause I'm [Chorus] [Interlude: Rihanna] Well that's nothin! Oh-ohhh oh-ohhh, oh-ohhh oh-ohhh Oh-ohhh oh-ohhh, ohhh-ohhh-ohhhh Well that's nothin! Oh-ohhh oh-ohhh, oh-ohhh oh-ohhh Oh-ohhh oh-ohhh, oh-ohhh oh-ohhh [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 ponderin'll do you wonders No wonder you're losin your mind the way it wanders" Yodelodaley-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 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'll take you back to the days that, I 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 '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]