[Intro: Rihanna] ~#**************#~ Im friends with the monster ~#**************#~ Thats under my bed ~#**************#~ Get along with the voices ~#**************#~ Inside of my head ~#**************#~ Youre tryin to save me ~#**************#~ Stop holdin your breath ~#**************#~ And you think Im crazy ~#**************#~ Yeah, you think Im crazy ~#**************#~ [Verse 1: Eminem] ~#**************#~ I wanted the fame but not the cover of Newsweek ~#**************#~ Oh well, guess beggars cant 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 dos 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 Im gettin so huge I need a shrink ~#**************#~ Im beginnin to lose sleep: one sheep, two sheep ~#**************#~ Goin coo-coo and kooky as Kool Keith ~#**************#~ But Im actually weirder than you think, cause Im— ~#**************#~ [Chorus: Rihanna, Rihanna & Bebe Rexha] ~#**************#~ Im friends with the monster ~#**************#~ Thats under my bed ~#**************#~ Get along with the voices ~#**************#~ Inside of my head ~#**************#~ Youre tryin to save me ~#**************#~ Stop holdin your breath ~#**************#~ And you think Im crazy ~#**************#~ Yeah, you think Im crazy ~#**************#~ Well, thats nothin ~#**************#~ [Post-Chorus: Rihanna, Bebe Rexha] ~#**************#~ New-hoo, ooh-hoo ~#**************#~ New-hoo, ooh-hoo ~#**************#~ New-hoo, ooh-hoo ~#**************#~ Well, thats nothin ~#**************#~ New-hoo, ooh-hoo ~#**************#~ New-hoo, ooh-hoo ~#**************#~ New-hoo, ooh-hoo ~#**************#~ New-hoo, ooh-hoo ~#**************#~ [Verse 2: Eminem, Bebe Rexha] ~#**************#~ Now, I aint much of a poet ~#**************#~ But I know somebody once told me to seize the moment ~#**************#~ And dont 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, ponderinll do you wonders, no wonder ~#**************#~ Youre 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 loves killin me and I cant conquer it ~#**************#~ My OCDs conkin me in the head, keep knockin ~#**************#~ Nobodys home, Im sleepwalkin ~#**************#~ Im just relayin what the voice in my heads sayin ~#**************#~ Dont shoot the messenger, Im just friends with the— ~#**************#~ [Chorus: Rihanna, Rihanna & Bebe Rexha] ~#**************#~ Im friends with the monster ~#**************#~ Thats under my bed ~#**************#~ Get along with the voices ~#**************#~ Inside of my head ~#**************#~ Youre tryin to save me ~#**************#~ Stop holdin your breath ~#**************#~ And you think Im crazy ~#**************#~ Yeah, you think Im crazy ~#**************#~ Well, thats nothin ~#**************#~ [Post-Chorus: Rihanna, Bebe Rexha] ~#**************#~ New-hoo, ooh-hoo ~#**************#~ New-hoo, ooh-hoo ~#**************#~ New-hoo, ooh-hoo ~#**************#~ Well, thats nothin ~#**************#~ New-hoo, ooh-hoo ~#**************#~ New-hoo, ooh-hoo ~#**************#~ New-hoo, ooh-hoo ~#**************#~ New-hoo, ooh-hoo ~#**************#~ [Verse 3: Eminem] ~#**************#~ Call me crazy, but I have this vision, one day that ~#**************#~ Ill walk amongst you a regular civilian ~#**************#~ But until then, drums get killed and Im comin straight at ~#**************#~ MCs, blood gets spilled then Ill ~#**************#~ Take you back to the days that Id 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 aint 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, thats great ~#**************#~ Its 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 Im okay with that ~#**************#~ Its nothin, Im still friends with the— ~#**************#~ [Chorus: Rihanna, Eminem, Rihanna & Eminem] ~#**************#~ Im friends with the monster ~#**************#~ Thats under my bed ~#**************#~ Get along with the voices ~#**************#~ Inside of my head ~#**************#~ Youre tryin to save me ~#**************#~ Stop holdin your breath ~#**************#~ And you think Im crazy ~#**************#~ Yeah, you think Im crazy ~#**************#~ Im friends with the monster ~#**************#~ Thats under my bed (Get along with) ~#**************#~ Get along with the voices ~#**************#~ Inside of my head (Youre tryin to) ~#**************#~ Youre tryin to save me ~#**************#~ Stop holdin your breath (And you think Im) ~#**************#~ And you think Im crazy ~#**************#~ Yeah, you think Im crazy ~#**************#~ Well, thats nothin ~#**************#~ [Post-Chorus: Rihanna & Eminem, Bebe Rexha] ~#**************#~ New-hoo, ooh-hoo ~#**************#~ New-hoo, ooh-hoo ~#**************#~ New-hoo, ooh-hoo ~#**************#~ Well, thats nothin ~#**************#~ New-hoo, ooh-hoo ~#**************#~ New-hoo, ooh-hoo ~#**************#~ New-hoo, ooh-hoo ~#**************#~ New-hoo, ooh-hoo