Eminem - The Monster Ft Rihanna

[intro]
                     C#m      B
I'm friends with the monster that's
          A
under my bed
                   C#m
Get along with the voices
 B            A
inside of my head
                 C#m
You're tryin' to save me,
 B                 A
stop holdin' your breath
                  C#m
And you think I'm crazy,
 B                   A
yeah, you think I'm crazy

[verse 1]
             C#m
I wanted the fame but
               B
not the cover of Newsweek
       A
Oh well, guess beggars can't be choosey
            C#m              B
Wanted to receive attention for my music
             A
Wanted to be left alone in public, excuse me
               C#m
For wantin' my cake, and eat it too,
B
 and wantin' it both ways
     A
Fame made me a balloon 'cause my ego inflated
       C#m                    B
When I blew, see, but it was confusing
                       A
'Cause all I wanted to do's be the
Bruce Lee of loose leaf
 C#m        B
Abused ink, used it as a tool
        A
when I blew steam

Whoo! Hit the lottery, ooh-wee
    C#m
But with what I gave up
B
to get it was bittersweet
           A
It was like winnin' a used mink
                C#m
Ironic 'cause I think I'm gettin' so huge
B
I need a shrink
                 A
I'm beginnin' to lose sleep:
one sheep, two sheep
             C#m                      B
Goin' coo-coo and kooky as Kool Keith

But I'm actually weirder than
A
you think, 'cause I'm—

[chorus]
                     C#m
I'm friends with the monster
 B               A
that's under my bed
                   C#m
Get along with the voices
 B            A
inside of my head
                 C#m
You're tryin' to save me,
 B                 A
stop holdin' your breath
                  C#m
And you think I'm crazy,
 B                   A
yeah, you think I'm crazy
                   C#m  B          A
Well, that's nothin'  (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
             C#m   B           A
(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
                   C#m  B           A
Well, that's nothin'  (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
             C#m   B           A
(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh,

[verse 2]
                       C#m
Now, I ain't much of a poet
           B
But I know somebody once told me to
          A
seize the moment

And don't squander it 'cause you
                   C#m
never know when it all
                B
Could be over tomorrow, so I keep conjurin'
A
Sometimes I wonder where these
thoughts spawn from
C#m                B
Yeah, ponderin'll do you wonders
                 A
No wonder you're losin' your mind,
the way it wanders
              C#m      B
Yodel-odel-ay-hee-hoo! I think it went
                    A
wanderin' off down yonder
                                  C#m
And stumbled onto Jeff VanVonderen
                 B
'Cause I need an interventionist
        A
To intervene between me and this monster
                 C#m
And save me from myself and
 B
all this conflict
                A
'Cause the very thing that I love's
killin' me and I can't conquer it
C#m     B
  My OCD's conkin' me in the head,
 A
keep knockin'
                            C#m
Nobody's home, I'm sleepwalkin'
I'm just relayin'
B
what the voice in my head's sayin'
      A
Don't shoot the messenger,

[chorus]
                     C#m
I'm friends with the monster
 B               A
that's under my bed
                   C#m
Get along with the voices
 B            A
inside of my head
                 C#m
You're tryin' to save me,
 B                 A
stop holdin' your breath
                  C#m
And you think I'm crazy,
 B                   A
yeah, you think I'm crazy
                   C#m  B           A
Well, that's nothin'  (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
             C#m   B           A
(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
                   C#m  B           A
Well, that's nothin'  (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
             C#m   B           A
(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh,
ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)

[verse 3]
        C#m
Call me crazy, but I have
 B
this vision, one day that
A
I'll walk amongst you a regular civilian
      C#m              B
But until then, drums get killed and
                       A
I'm comin' straight at MC's,
blood gets spilled and
                          C#m
I'll take you back to the days that
 B
I'd get on a Dre track
           A
Give every kid who got
played that pumped-up feelin'
            C#m       B
And shit to say back to the kids who played him
        A
I ain't here to save the fuckin' children
              C#m           B
But if one kid out of a hundred million
                        A
Who are goin' through a struggle,
feels it and relates, that's great!
     C#m          B
It's payback, Russell Wilson fallin' way back
A
In the draft, turn nothin' into somethin',
C#m
still can make that
B
Straw into gold, chump, I
A
will spin—Rumpelstiltskin in a haystack
C#m               B
  Maybe I need a straightjacket
     A
Face facts: I am nuts for real,
but I'm okay with that!
C#m                        B
  It's nothin', I'm still friends

[chorus]
                C#m
with the monster
 B               A
that's under my bed
                   C#m
Get along with the voices
 B            A
inside of my head
                 C#m
You're tryin' to save me,
 B                 A
stop holdin' your breath
                  C#m
And you think I'm crazy,
 B                   A
yeah, you think I'm crazy

[bridge]
                     C#m
I'm friends with the monster
 B               A
that's under my bed
                   C#m
Get along with the voices
 B            A
inside of my head
                 C#m
You're tryin' to save me,
 B                 A
stop holdin' your breath
                  C#m      B
And you think I'm crazy, yeah,
               A
you think I'm crazy

[outro]
                   C#m  B           A
Well, that's nothin'  (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
             C#m   B           A
(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
                   C#m  B           A
Well, that's nothin'  (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
             C#m   B           A
(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh,
ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)