I'm friends with the monsterThat's under my bedGet along with the voices inside of my headYou're trying to save meStop holding your breathAnd you think I'm crazyYeah,you think I'm crazy crazyI 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 in public excuse meBeen wanting my cake,And eat it tooAnd wanting it both waysFame made me a balloon cause my ego inflatedWhen I blew seep and it was confusingCause all I wanted to dois be the Bruce Lee of loose leafAbused ink,used it as a tool when I blew steamHit the lottery oh weeWith what I gave up to get was bittersweetIt was like winning a huge meetIronic 'cause I thinkI'm getting so huge I need a shrinkI'm beginning to lose sleepone sheep,two sheepGoing cuckoo and cookey as Kool KeithBut I'm actually weirder than you thinkCause I'm...I'm friends with the monsterThat's under my bedGet along with the voices inside of my headYou're trying to save meStop holding your breathAnd you think I'm crazyYeah,you think I'm crazyWell,that's nothingoh oh oh ohoh ohWell,that's nothingoh oh oh ohoh ohNow I ain't much of a poetBut I know somebody oncetold me to seize the momentAnd don't squander itCause you never knowwhen it could all be overTomorrow so I keep conjuringSometimes I wonderwhere these thoughts spawn fromYeah,ponder it,do you want this?there's no wonder you're losing your mindthe way you're wandering?I think you've beenwandering off down yonderand stumbled onto Jeff VanVonderenCause I needed an interventionistto intervene between meand this monsterAnd save me from myselfand all this conflictCause the very thing that I loveis killing me and I can't conquer itMy OCD is conking me in the headKeep knocking,nobody's home,I'm sleepwalkingI'm just relaying what the voicein my head sayingDon't shoot the messenger,I'm just friends with the...I'm friends with the monsterThat's under my bedGet along with the voicesinside of my headYou're trying to save meStop holding your breathAnd you think I'm crazyYeah,you think I'm crazyWell,that's nothingoh oh oh ohoh ohWell,that's nothingoh oh oh ohoh oh oh ohCall me crazy,but I had this visionOne day that,I'd walk amongst youa regular civilianBut,until then,drums get killed and 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 atPumped the feelingand shit to say backTo the kids who played 'emI ain't here to save the ****ing childrenBut if one kid out of a hundred millionWho are going through a struggle feelsand it relates that's greatIt's payback,Russell Wilson falling way backIn the draft,turn nothing into something still,can make thatStraw in the gold chump I will spendRumpelstiltskin 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...I'm friends with the monsterThat's under my bedGet along with the voicesinside of my headYou're trying to save meStop holding your breathAnd you think I'm crazyYeah,you think I'm crazyI'm friends with the monsterThat's under my bedGet along with the voicesinside of my headYou're trying to save meStop holding your breathAnd you think I'm crazyYeah,you think I'm crazyWell,that's nothingoh oh oh ohoh ohwell,that's nothingoh oh oh ohoh oh oh oh
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