2015格莱美 最佳说唱合作 《The Monster》-Eminem Featuring Rihanna

I'm friends with the monster

That's under my bed

Get along with the voices inside of my head

You're tryin' to save me

Stop holdin' your breath

And you think I'm crazy

Yeah, you think I'm crazy

I wanted the fame but not the cover of Newsweek

Oh well, guess beggars can't be choosey

Wanted to receive attention for my music

Wanted to be left alone in public excuse me

For wantin' my cake and eat it too

and wantin' it both ways

Fame made me a balloon

'cuz my ego¹ inflated² when I blew, see

But it was confusing,

'cuz all I wanted to do's be

the Bruce Lee of loose leaf

Abused ink,

used it as a tool when blew steam

Whoo, hit the lottery³ ooh-wee

But with, what I gave up to get it was bittersweet

it was like winnin' a used mink⁴

Ironic⁵ 'cuz I think I'm gettin' so huge I need a shrink

I'm beginnin' to lose sleep: one sheep, two sheep,

goin' coo-coo and kooky as Kool Keith

But I'm actually weirder⁶ than you think

'Cuz I'm... friends with the monster

That's under my bed

Get along with the voices inside of my head

You're tryin' to save me

Stop holdin' your breath

And you think I'm crazy

Yeah, you think I'm crazy

Well that's nothin'

Well that's nothin'

Now, I ain't much of a poet

but I know somebody once told me

to seize the moment and don't squander⁷ it

'Cuz you never know when it all

could be over tomorrow, so I keep conjurin'

Sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn⁸ from

Yeah, ponderin'll do you wonders no wonder you're

losin' your mind the way it wanders

Yo-dal-odale-hee-hoo!

I think it went wanderin' off down yonder and

Stumbled on 'ta Jeff VanVonderen

'Cuz I need an interventionist

to intervene between me and this monster

And save me from myself and all this conflict

'Cuz the very thing that I love's killin' me

and I can't conquer it

My OCD's conkin' me in the head keep knockin'

Nobody's home I'm sleepwalkin'

I'm just relayin' what the voice in my head's sayin',

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

Monster that's under my bed

Get along with the voices inside of my head

You're tryin' to save me

Stop holdin' your breath

And you think I'm crazy

Yeah, you think I'm crazy

Well that's nothin'

Well that's nothin'

Call me crazy but I have this vision

One day that, I'll walk amongst you a regular civilian⁹

But until then, drums get killed and I'm comin' straight at

MC's blood gets spilled and I'll

take you back to the days that I'd get on a Dre track,

give every kid who got played that,

Pumped up feelin' and shit to say back

to the kids who played him

I ain't here to save the fuckin' children

But if one kid out of a hundred million

Who are goin' through a struggle feels it and relates that's great,

It's payback, Russell Wilson fallin' way back in the draft

Turn nothin' into somethin' still can make

that straw into gold chump, I will spin

Rumpelstiltskin in a haystack

Maybe I need a straight-jacket face facts

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

It's nuthin', I'm still friends with the...

Monster that's under my bed

Get along with the voices inside of my head

You're tryin' to save me

Stop holdin' your breath

And you think I'm crazy

Yeah, you think I'm crazy

I'm friends with the monster

That's under my bed

Get along with the voices inside of my head

You're tryin' to save me

Stop holdin' your breath

And you think I'm crazy

Yeah, you think I'm crazy

Well that's nothin'

1 ego   

n.自我，自己，自尊

参考例句：

• He is absolute ego in all thing.在所有的事情上他都绝对自我。
• She has been on an ego trip since she sang on television.她上电视台唱过歌之后就一直自吹自擂。

2 inflated   

adj.（价格）飞涨的；（通货）膨胀的；言过其实的；充了气的v.使充气（于轮胎、气球等）( inflate的过去式和过去分词 )；（使）膨胀；（使）通货膨胀；物价上涨

参考例句：

• He has an inflated sense of his own importance. 他自视过高。
• They all seem to take an inflated view of their collective identity. 他们对自己的集体身份似乎都持有一种夸大的看法。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 lottery   

n.抽彩；碰运气的事，难于算计的事

参考例句：

• He won no less than ￡5000 in the lottery.他居然中了5000英镑的奖券。
• They thought themselves lucky in the lottery of life.他们认为自己是变幻莫测的人生中的幸运者。

4 mink   

n.貂，貂皮

参考例句：

• She was wearing a blue dress and a mink coat.她穿着一身蓝色的套装和一件貂皮大衣。
• He started a mink ranch and made a fortune in five years. 他开了个水貂养殖场，五年之内就赚了不少钱。

5 ironic   

adj.讽刺的，有讽刺意味的，出乎意料的

参考例句：

• That is a summary and ironic end.那是一个具有概括性和讽刺意味的结局。
• People used to call me Mr Popularity at high school,but they were being ironic.人们中学时常把我称作“万人迷先生”，但他们是在挖苦我。

6 weirder   

怪诞的( weird的比较级 )； 神秘而可怕的； 超然的； 古怪的

参考例句：

• Actually, things got a little weirder when the tow truck driver showed up. 事实上，在拖吊车司机出现后，事情的发展更加怪异。

7 squander   

v.浪费，挥霍

参考例句：

• Don't squander your time in reading those dime novels.不要把你的时间浪费在读那些胡编乱造的廉价小说上。
• Every chance is precious，so don't squander any chance away!每次机会都很宝贵，所以不要将任何一个白白放走。

8 spawn   

n.卵，产物，后代，结果；vt.产卵，种菌丝于，产生，造成；vi.产卵，大量生产

参考例句：

• The fish were madly pushing their way upstream to spawn.鱼群为产卵而疯狂地向上游挤进。
• These fish will lay spawn in about one month from now.这些鱼大约一个月内会产卵。

9 civilian   

adj.平民的，民用的，民众的

参考例句：

• There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
• He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。