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Practice: The Monster

Rihanna

4:10

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Lyrics with Timing

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I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

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Get along with the voices inside of my head

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You trying to save me, stop holding your breath

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And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy

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I wanted the fame, but not the cover of Newsweek

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Oh well, guess beggars can't be choosey

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Wanted to receive attention for my music

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Wanted to be left alone, public excuse me

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Been wanting my cake, I need it too, wanting it both ways

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Fame made me a balloon cause my ego inflated

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When I blew seep it was confusing

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'Cause all I wanted to do is be the Bruce Lee of loose leaf

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Abused ink, used it as a tool when I blew steam

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Ooh, hit the lottery, oh wee

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With what I gave up to get was bittersweet

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It was like winning a huge meet

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Ironic 'cause I think I'm getting so huge I need a shrink

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I'm beginning to lose sleep, one sheep, two sheep

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Going cucko and cuckier as Kool Keith

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

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I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

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Get along with the voices inside of my head

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You trying to save me, stop holding your breath

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And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy

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Well, that's nothing

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Well, that's nothing

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Now I ain't much of a poet, but I know somebody once told me to seize the moment

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And don't squander it, 'cause you never know when it could all be over

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Tomorrow so I keep conjuring, sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from

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(Yeah, ponder it, Do you wonder there's no wonder you're losing your mind the way

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You're brought up?)

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I think you've been wandering off down yonder and stumbled upon Jeff VanVonderen

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'Cause I needed an intervention in this to intervene between me and this monster

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And save me from myself and all this conflict

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'Cause the very things that I love is killing me and I can't conquer it

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My OCD is conking me in the head

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Keep knocking, nobody's home, I'm sleepwalking

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I'm just relaying what the voice of my head saying

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Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the

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I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

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Get along with the voices inside of my head

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You trying to save me, stop holding your breath

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And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy

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Well, that's nothing

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Well, that's nothing

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Call me crazy, but I had this vision

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One day that I'd walk amongst you regular civilians

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But until then drums get killed I'm coming straight at

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MCs, blood get spilled and I take it back

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To the days that I get on a Dre track

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Give every kid who got played at

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Pumped the villian and shit that say back

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To the kids who played 'em

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I ain't here to save the fucking children

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But if one kid out of a hundred million

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Who are going through a struggle feels and relates that's great

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It's payback, Russell Wilson falling way back

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In the draft, turn nothing into something, still can make that

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Straw in the gold chump I will spend Rumpelstiltskin in a hay stack

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Maybe I need a straightjacket, face facts

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

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It's nothing, I'm still friends with the

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I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

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Get along with the voices inside of my head

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You trying to save me, stop holding your breath

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And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy

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I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

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Get along with the voices inside of my head

3:40

You trying to save me, stop holding your breath

3:44

And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy

3:49

Well, that's nothing

3:57

Well, that's nothing

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Song Information

Artist
Rihanna
Album
The Marshall Mathers LP2
Duration
4:10
Lyrics Type
plain

💡Singing Tips

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