The Monster

The Monster: Chords

                     DO#m           SI       LA       
I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
                   DO#m     SI         LA
Get along with the voices inside of my head
                 DO#m          SI           LA
You're tryin' to save me, stop holding your breath
                  DO#m    SI
And you think I'm crazy, yeah, 
              LA
you think I'm crazy (crazy)

             DO#m                      SI
I wanted the fame but not the cover of Newsweek
       LA
Oh well, guess beggars can't be choosey
            DO#m                   SI
Wanted to receive attention for my music
             LA
Wanted to be left alone in public, excuse me
               DO#m
For wantin' my cake, and eat it too, 
    SI
and wantin' it both ways
     LA
Fame made me a balloon 'cause my ego inflated
       DO#m                     SI
When I blew, see, but it was confusing
                       LA
'Cause all I wanted to do's be 
                     
the Bruce Lee of loose leaf
 DO#m       SI
Abused ink, used it as a tool 
       LA             
when I blew steam (ooh)
 
Hit the lottery, ooh-wee
    DO#m                   SI
But with what I gave up to get, it was bittersweet
       LA
It was like winnin' a used mink
                DO#m
Ironic 'cause I think I'm gettin' 
                 SI
so huge I need a shrink
                 LA
I'm beginnin' to lose sleep, one sheep, two sheep
          DO#m                       SI
Going coo-coo and kooky as Kool Keith
                              LA
But I'm actually weirder than you think, 'cause I'm

                     DO#m           SI       LA       
I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
                   DO#m     SI         LA
Get along with the voices inside of my head
                 DO#m          SI           LA
You're tryin' to save me, stop holding your breath
                  DO#m    SI
And you think I'm crazy, yeah, 
              LA
you think I'm crazy (crazy)
                   DO#m  SI      LA    DO#m  SI  LA
Well, that's nothin'(ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)...
                   DO#m  SI      LA    DO#m  SI  LA
Well, that's nothin'(ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)...

                       DO#m
Now, I ain't much of a poet
                    SI                        LA
But I know somebody once told me to seize the moment

And don't squander it

'Cause you never know 
        DO#m
when it all could be over tomorrow
SI
So I keep conjurin'
LA
Sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from
DO#m                     SI
Yeah, ponderin'll do you wonders
                 LA
No wonder you're losing your mind, 

the way it wanders
           DO#m
Yodel-odel-ay-hee-hoo
           SI                       LA
I think it went wanderin' off down yonder

And stumbled onto Jeff VanVonderen
DO#m             SI
'Cause I need an interventionist
        LA
To intervene between me and this monster
                   DO#m              SI
And save me from myself and all this conflict
                LA
'Cause the very thing that I love's killing me

And I can't conquer it
DO#m       SI                      LA            
 My OCD is conkin' me in the head, keep knockin'
                             DO#m
Nobody's home, I'm sleepwalkin'
                           SI
I'm just relayin' what the voice in my head's sayin'
      LA
Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the

                     DO#m           SI       LA       
I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
                   DO#m     SI         LA
Get along with the voices inside of my head
                 DO#m          SI           LA
You're tryin' to save me, stop holding your breath
                  DO#m    SI
And you think I'm crazy, yeah, 
              LA
you think I'm crazy (crazy)
                   DO#m  SI      LA    DO#m  SI  LA
Well, that's nothin'(ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)...
                   DO#m  SI      LA    DO#m  SI  LA
Well, that's nothin'(ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)...

        DO#m                   SI
Call me crazy, but I have this vision
             LA
One day that I'll walk amongst you 

a regular civilian
      DO#m                SI
But until then, drums get killed and
                       LA
I'm comin' straight at MC's, blood gets spilled and
                         DO#m
I'll take it back to the days 
                  SI
that I'd get on a Dre track
           LA     
Give every kid who got played that pumped-up feelin'
            DO#m            SI
And shit to say back to the kids who played him
        LA
I ain't here to save the fuckin' children
              DO#m              SI
But if one kid out of a hundred million
                        LA
Who are going through a struggle feels it 

and relates, that's great
     DO#m             SI
It's payback, Russell Wilson
                 LA
Falling way back in the draft
                             DO#m
Turn nothin' into somethin', still can
                 SI                  LA
Make that, straw into gold, chump, I will spin

Rumpelstiltskin in a haystack
DO#m           SI                     LA
Maybe I need a straight jacket, face facts

I am nuts for real, but I'm okay with that
   
It's nothin', I'm still friends with the

                     DO#m           SI       LA       
I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
                   DO#m     SI         LA
Get along with the voices inside of my head
                 DO#m          SI           LA
You're tryin' to save me, stop holding your breath
                  DO#m    SI                 LA
And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy 

                     DO#m           SI       LA       
I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
                   DO#m     SI         LA
Get along with the voices inside of my head
                 DO#m          SI           LA
You're tryin' to save me, stop holding your breath
                  DO#m    SI
And you think I'm crazy, yeah, 
              LA
you think I'm crazy (crazy)
                   DO#m  SI      LA    DO#m  SI  LA
Well, that's nothin'(ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)...
                   DO#m  SI      LA    DO#m  SI  LA
Well, that's nothin'(ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)...

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The Monster è un brano scritto e inciso da Eminem, pseudonimo di Marshall Bruce Mathers III, contenuto nell'album The Marshall Mathers LP 2 pubblicato nel 2013. Ottavo lavoro in studio per il rapper statunitense, è contraddistinto da una forte carica umoristica all'insegna del comedy rap divertente e spiritoso. La canzone è il quarto singolo estratto ed è scritta insieme a Bryan Fryzel, Aaron Kleinstub, M. Athanasiou, Robyn Fenty, Jon Bellion, Bebe Rexha; vede Eminem duettare con Rihanna (la Robyn di cui sopra), buon divertimento!

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Alberto Moneti

36 anni, polistrumentista: pianoforte, chitarra, batteria, clarinetto. Ha conseguito la licenza in teoria musicale e solfeggio presso il Conservatorio Cherubini di Firenze. Dal 1997 è organista presso la Basilica di Santa Maria del Sasso, a Bibbiena (AR).