Intro
I'm friends with the [Bm] monster [A] that's under my [G] bed
Get along with the [Bm] voices [A] inside of my [G] head
You're tryin' to [Bm] save me, [A] stop holdin' your [G] breath
And you think I'm [Bm] crazy, [A] yeah, you think I'm [G] crazy
Verse 1
I wanted the [Bm] fame but not the cover [A] of Newsweek
Oh [G] well, guess beggars can't be choosey
Wanted to [Bm] receive attention [A] for my music
Wanted to be [G] left alone in public, excuse me
For wantin' my [Bm] cake, and eat it [A] too, and wantin' it both ways
Fame [G] made me a balloon 'cause my ego inflated
When I [Bm] blew, see, but it was [A] confusing
'Cause all I wanted to [G] do's be the Bruce Lee of loose leaf
[Bm] Abused ink, [A] used it as a tool when I [G] blew steam
Whoo! Hit the lottery, ooh-wee
But [Bm] with what I gave up [A] to get it was bittersweet
It was like [G] winnin' a used mink
Ironic 'cause I [Bm] think I'm gettin' so huge [A] I need a shrink
I'm beginnin' to [G] lose sleep: one sheep, two sheep
Goin' coo-coo [Bm] and kooky as Kool [A] Keith
But I'm actually weirder than [G] you think, 'cause I'm—
Chorus
I'm friends with the [Bm] monster [A] that's under my [G] bed
Get along with the [Bm] voices [A] inside of my [G] head
You're tryin' to [Bm] save me, [A] stop holdin' your [G] breath
And you think I'm [Bm] crazy, [A] yeah, you think I'm [G] crazy
Well, that's [Bm] nothin' [A] [G] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[Bm] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, [A] [G] ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
Well, that's [Bm] nothin' [A] [G] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[Bm] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, [A] [G] ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
Verse 2
Now, I ain't much of a [Bm] poet
But I know [A] somebody once told me to seize the [G] moment
And don't squander it 'cause you never know when it [Bm] all
Could be over [A] tomorrow, so I keep conjurin'
[G] Sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from
[Bm] Yeah, ponderin'll [A] do you wonders
No wonder you're [G] losin' your mind, the way it wanders
[Bm] Yodel-odel-ay-hee-hoo! [A] I think it went wanderin' off down [G] yonder
And stumbled onto Jeff [Bm] VanVonderen
'Cause I need an [A] interventionist
To [G] intervene between me and this monster
And save me from [Bm] myself and [A] all this conflict
'Cause the very [G] thing that I love's killin' me and I can't conquer it
[Bm] My [A] OCD's conkin' me in the head, [G] keep knockin'
Nobody's home, I'm [Bm] sleepwalkin'
I'm just relayin' [A] what the voice in my head's sayin'
Don't [G] shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the—
Chorus
I'm friends with the [Bm] monster [A] that's under my [G] bed
Get along with the [Bm] voices [A] inside of my [G] head
You're tryin' to [Bm] save me, [A] stop holdin' your [G] breath
And you think I'm [Bm] crazy, [A] yeah, you think I'm [G] crazy
Well, that's [Bm] nothin' [A] [G] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[Bm] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, [A] [G] ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
Well, that's [Bm] nothin' [A] [G] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[Bm] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, [A] [G] ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
Verse 3
Call me [Bm] crazy, but I have [A] this vision, one day that
[G] I'll walk amongst you a regular civilian
But [Bm] until then, drums [A] get killed and
I'm comin' straight at [G] MC's, blood gets spilled and
I'll take you back to the [Bm] days that [A] I'd get on a Dre track
Give every [G] kid who got played that pumped-up feelin'
And shit to [Bm] say back [A] to the kids who played him
I ain't [G] here to save the fuckin' children
But if one kid [Bm] out of a [A] hundred million
Who are goin' through a [G] struggle, feels it and relates, that's great!
It's [Bm] payback, [A] Russell Wilson fallin' way back
[G] In the draft, turn nothin' into somethin', [Bm] still can make that
[A] Straw into gold, chump, I [G] will spin—Rumpelstiltskin in a haystack
[Bm] Maybe I need a [A] straightjacket
Face [G] facts: I am nuts for real, but I'm okay with that!
[Bm] It's nothin', I'm still [A] friends with the—
Chorus
I'm friends with the [Bm] monster [A] that's under my [G] bed
Get along with the [Bm] voices [A] inside of my [G] head
You're tryin' to [Bm] save me, [A] stop holdin' your [G] breath
And you think I'm [Bm] crazy, [A] yeah, you think I'm [G] crazy
Bridge
I'm friends with the [Bm] monster [A] that's under my [G] bed
Get along with the [Bm] voices [A] inside of my [G] head
You're tryin' to [Bm] save me, [A] stop holdin' your [G] breath
And you think I'm [Bm] crazy, [A] yeah, you think I'm [G] crazy
Outro
Well, that's [Bm] nothin' [A] [G] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[Bm] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, [A] [G] ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
Well, that's [Bm] nothin' [A] [G] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
[Bm] (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, [A] [G] ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
