The Monster

[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



[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 '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 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

'Cuz I'm...



[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

Well that's nothin', well that's nothin'



[Verse 2: 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

'Cuz 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

Yo-dal-odale-hee-hoo!



I think it went wanderin' off down yonder and 

Stumbled on 'ta Jeff VanVonderen

'Cuz I need an 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 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]



[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 

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 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 straight-jacket face facts

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

It's nuthin', I'm still friends with the...



[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



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'





(M. Mathers, B. Fryzel, A. Kleinstub, M. Athanasiou, R. Fenty, J. Bellion, B. Rexha)

Songs Of Universal, Inc. / Shroom Shady Music (BMI) / Freq Show Music / 

Songs of Universal, Inc. (BMI) / Aaron Kleinstub Publishing Designee (BMI) / 

Maki Athanasiou Publishing Designee (BMI) / 

Annarhi Music LLC Admin By EMI Blackwood Inc. (BMI) / BMG Rights Managment (US) LLC /

Kiss Me If You Can Music (BMI) / John Bellion Publishing Designee



Produced By: Frequency for Freq Show Music, Inc.

Co-Produced By: Aalias

Recorded By: Mike Strange, Joe Strange & Tony Campana @ Effigy Studios

Mixed By: Dr. Dre & Veto @ Record One Studios in Sherman Oaks, CA

Mix Engineer: Mauricio "Veto" Iragorri @ Record One Studios In Sherman Oaks, CA

Assistant Mix Engineer: RJ Colston @ Record One Studios In Sherman Oaks, CA

Background Vocals By: Bebe

Additional Instrumentation By: Maki Athanasiou

Additional Keyboards By: Luis Resto

*Rihanna appears courtesy of Roc Nation