The Monster (ft Rihanna) - Eminem, guitar chords

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

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

             C#m                        B
I wanted the fame, but not the cover of Newsweek.
        A
Oh, well, guess beggars can’t be choosy.
            C#m                    B
Wanted to receive attention for my music,
             A
Wanted to be left alone in public.
                         C#m
Excuse me for wanting my cake and eat it too
       B
And wanting 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                        A
Abused ink, used it as a tool when I blew steam.
A
Ooh! Hit the lottery, ooh wee,
    C#m                    B
But with what I gave up to get was bittersweet.

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

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

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

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

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

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

               B
I think you’ve been wandering off down
A
Yonder and stumbled onto Jeff VanVonderen,
C#m                   B                  A
’Cause I need an interventionist to intervene between me and this monster
                   C#m               B
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.

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

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

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

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

        C#m                       B
Call me crazy, but I had this vision
             A
One day that I’ll walk amongst you a regular civilian.
       C#m
But, until then,
          B                                  A
Drums get killed, and I’m coming straight at MC’s;
A
Blood gets spilled. And I
                    C#m                  B
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
            C#m
And shit to say back
       B
To the kids who play ’em.
        A
I ain’t here to save the fucking children,
              C#m                    B
But if one kid out of a hundred million
                        A
Who are going through a struggle feels and relates, that’s great.

     C#m              B
It’s payback, Russell Wilson falling way back
A                                          C#m
In the draft. Turn nothing into something. Still can make that
      B                   A
Straw into gold, chump. I will spin
A
Rumpelstiltskin in a haystack.
   C#m         B                    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:
                          C#m
     I’m friends with the monster
            B        A
     That’s under my bed,
                        C#m      B          A
     Get along with the voices inside of my head.
                      C#m
     You’re trying to save me;
          B            A
     Stop holding your breath.
                       C#m
     And you think I’m crazy,
           B             A
     Yeah, you think I’m crazy.

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

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

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