The Monster (ft Rihanna) - Eminem, guitar chords

Published: 2018-01-16 14:26
Selection chords: Katie Paterson

Chorus:
                          Dm
     I’m friends with the monster
            C        A#
     That’s under my bed,
                        Dm      C          A#
     Get along with the voices inside of my head.
                      Dm
     You’re trying to save me;
          C            A#
     Stop holding your breath.
                       Dm
     And you think I’m crazy,
           C             A#
     Yeah, you think I’m crazy.

             Dm                        C
I wanted the fame, but not the cover of Newsweek.
        A#
Oh, well, guess beggars can’t be choosy.
            Dm                    C
Wanted to receive attention for my music,
             A#
Wanted to be left alone in public.
                         Dm
Excuse me for wanting my cake and eat it too
       C
And wanting it both ways.

     A#
Fame made me a balloon ’cause my ego inflated
       Dm                      C
When I blew, see, but it was confusing
                       A#
’Cause all I wanted to do’s be the Bruce Lee of loose-leaf.
 Dm        C                        A#
Abused ink, used it as a tool when I blew steam.
A#
Ooh! Hit the lottery, ooh wee,
    Dm                    C
But with what I gave up to get was bittersweet.

           A#
It was like winning a huge meet.
                       Dm                          C
Ironic, ’cause I think I’m getting so huge I need a shrink.
                             A#
I’m beginning to lose sleep. One sheep, two sheep…
             Dm              C
Going cuckoo and cooky as Kool Keith.
                              A#
But I’m actually weirder than you think ’cause I…

Chorus:
                          Dm
     I’m friends with the monster
            C        A#
     That’s under my bed,
                        Dm      C          A#
     Get along with the voices inside of my head.
                      Dm
     You’re trying to save me;
          C            A#
     Stop holding your breath.
                       Dm
     And you think I’m crazy,
           C             A#
     Yeah, you think I’m crazy.

                    Dm
   Well, that’s nothing.
          C      A#
   Uh, uh-oh, uh-oh,
                 Dm
   Uh, uh-oh, uh-oh,
          C      A#
   Uh, uh-oh, uh-oh, oh.

                    Dm
   Well, that’s nothing.
          C      A#
   Uh, uh-oh, uh-oh,
                 Dm
   Uh, uh-oh, uh-oh,
          C      A#
   Uh, uh-oh, uh-oh.
             Dm
   Uh-oh, uh-oh.

                      Dm
No, I ain’t much of a poet
                    C                         A#
But I know somebody once told me to seize the moment
A#
And don’t squander it,
                              Dm
’Cause you never know when it all could be over tomorrow.
C
So I keep conjuring.
A#
Sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from.

Dm                          C
(Yeah, ponder it. And do you want this?
              A#
No wonder you losing your mind, the way it wanders.)
           Dm
Yodel-odel-ay-ee-hoo.

               C
I think you’ve been wandering off down
A#
Yonder and stumbled onto Jeff VanVonderen,
Dm                   C                  A#
’Cause I need an interventionist to intervene between me and this monster
                   Dm               C
And save me from myself and all this conflict,
                A#
’Cause the very thing that I love’s killing me and I can’t conquer it.

Dm      C
My OCD’s conking me in the head.
A#
Keep knocking, nobody’s home. I’m sleepwalking.
           Dm             C
I’m just relaying what the voice in my head saying.
      A#
Don’t shoot the messenger. I’m just friends with the…

Chorus:
                          Dm
     I’m friends with the monster
            C        A#
     That’s under my bed,
                        Dm      C          A#
     Get along with the voices inside of my head.
                      Dm
     You’re trying to save me;
          C            A#
     Stop holding your breath.
                       Dm
     And you think I’m crazy,
           C             A#
     Yeah, you think I’m crazy.

                    Dm
   Well, that’s nothing.
          C      A#
   Uh, uh-oh, uh-oh,
                 Dm
   Uh, uh-oh, uh-oh,
          C      A#
   Uh, uh-oh, uh-oh, oh.

                    Dm
   Well, that’s nothing.
          C      A#
   Uh, uh-oh, uh-oh,
                 Dm
   Uh, uh-oh, uh-oh,
          C      A#
   Uh, uh-oh, uh-oh.
             Dm
   Uh-oh, uh-oh.

        Dm                       C
Call me crazy, but I had this vision
             A#
One day that I’ll walk amongst you a regular civilian.
       Dm
But, until then,
          C                                  A#
Drums get killed, and I’m coming straight at MC’s;
A#
Blood gets spilled. And I
                    Dm                  C
Take it back to the days that I get on a Dre track.

               A#
Give every kid who got played at
A#
Pumped up feeling
            Dm
And shit to say back
       C
To the kids who play ’em.
        A#
I ain’t here to save the fucking children,
              Dm                    C
But if one kid out of a hundred million
                        A#
Who are going through a struggle feels and relates, that’s great.

     Dm              C
It’s payback, Russell Wilson falling way back
A#                                          Dm
In the draft. Turn nothing into something. Still can make that
      C                   A#
Straw into gold, chump. I will spin
A#
Rumpelstiltskin in a haystack.
   Dm         C                    A#
Maybe I need a straightjacket. Face facts:
                  A#
I am nuts for real. But I’m okay with that;
A#
It’s nothing. I’m still friends with the…

Chorus:
                          Dm
     I’m friends with the monster
            C        A#
     That’s under my bed,
                        Dm      C          A#
     Get along with the voices inside of my head.
                      Dm
     You’re trying to save me;
          C            A#
     Stop holding your breath.
                       Dm
     And you think I’m crazy,
           C             A#
     Yeah, you think I’m crazy.

                          Dm
     I’m friends with the monster
            C        A#
     That’s under my bed, (get along with,)
                        Dm      C          A#
     Get along with the voices inside of my head.
     A#
     (You’re tryna,)
                      Dm
     You’re trying to save me;
          C            A#
     Stop holding your breath.
      A#
     (And you think,)
                       Dm
     And you think I’m crazy,
           C             A#
     Yeah, you think I’m crazy.

                    Dm
   Well, that’s nothing.
          C      A#
   Uh, uh-oh, uh-oh,
                 Dm
   Uh, uh-oh, uh-oh,
          C      A#
   Uh, uh-oh, uh-oh, oh.

                    Dm
   Well, that’s nothing.
          C      A#
   Uh, uh-oh, uh-oh,
                 Dm
   Uh, uh-oh, uh-oh,
          C      A#
   Uh, uh-oh, uh-oh.
   A#
   Uh-oh, uh-oh.