The Monster

I wanted the fame, but not the cover of Newsweek
我想要名氣，但不是《新聞周刊》的封面
Oh well, guess beggers cant be choosey
好吧，我想乞求之人不能太挑剔
Wanted to receive attention for my music
我希望我的音樂得到關注
Wanted to be left alone in public. Excuse me
但個人生活想要遠離公眾，抱歉
For wanting my cake and eat it too, and wanting it both ways
魚和熊掌我偏要兼得
Fame made me a balloon cause my ego inflated
名聲可以是個氣球使我自負膨脹
When I blew; see, but it was confusing
看吧最終破裂開來這讓人迷惑
Cause all I wanted to do is be the Bruce Lee of loose leaf
因為我想要的全部就是成為歌詞紙上的李小龍
Abused ink, used it as a tool when I blew steam
濫用墨水，在我需要時把這當作洩憤的工具
Whoo, hit the lottery ooh- wee
一把中頭彩哦耶
But with what I gave up to get it was bittersweet
就拿我為得到而放棄的那些來說，可謂是苦樂各半
It was like winning a used mink
好像一路犧牲贏得一件二手的貂皮衣
Ironic cause I think Im getting so huge I need a shrink
真是諷刺我如此自我膨脹需要心理醫生讓我回到原來的樣子
Im beginning to lose sleep: one sheep, two sheep
我開始失眠一隻羊兩隻羊
Going cuckoo and cooky as Kool Keith
變得像Kool Keith 一樣瘋狂古怪
But Im actually weirder than you think
但我比你想像得更加詭怪
Im friends with the monster
我是妖魔的朋友
Thats under my bed
它在我的床下蟄伏
Get along with the voices inside of my head
腦子裡聲音嗡響不住，我得與它好好相處
Youre trying to save me
你想拯救我麼
Stop holding your breath
那就別屏住呼吸
And you think Im crazy
你覺得我瘋了
Yeah, you think Im crazy
是，你覺得我瘋了
Well,thats not fair
何止是瘋狂這不值一提
Now, I aint much of a poet but I know somebody once told me
不，我不是個怎樣的好詩人但我知道
To seize the moment and dont squander it
有人曾告訴過我把握好當下，不要揮霍時光
Cause you never know when it all could be over tomorrow
因為你永遠不知道可能明天一切都煙消雲散
So I keep conjuring, sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from
所以我不斷召喚魔物，有時候我想知道這些想法念頭都是哪裡來的
(Yeah, ponderingll do you wonders
是啊深思可以創造奇蹟
No wonder youre losing your mind the way it wanders.)Yoda-loda-le-hee-hoo
難怪你失去理智任由思緒徘徊
I think it went wandering off down yonder and stumbled on ta Jeff VanVonderen
我想思緒的來源不知所以最後不覺想起了Jeff VanVonderen
Cause I need an interventionist to intervene between me and this monster
因為我需要有人在我和這頭惡魔之間築起高牆
And save me from myself and all this conflict
拯救我於痛苦之間來阻止這場廝殺
Cause the very thing that I loves killing me and I cant conquer it
因為曾經我的最愛反而讓我生不如死我無力抵抗這種感覺
My OCDs conking me in the head
我的強迫症如鯁在喉讓我無力
Keep knocking, nobodys home, Im sleepwalking
門外敲門聲不斷家中無人我已陷入夢遊之中
Im just relaying what the voice in my heads saying
我只是在傳達腦海裡的惡魔的訊息
Dont shoot the messenger, Im just friends with the
別怪罪傳話的我我只是在和惡魔為伴
Im friends with the monster
我是妖魔的朋友
Thats under my bed
它在我的床下蟄伏
Get along with the voices inside of my head
腦子裡聲音嗡響不住，我得與它好好相處
Youre trying to save me
你想拯救我麼
Stop holding your breath
那就別屏住呼吸
And you think Im crazy
你覺得我瘋了
Yeah, you think Im crazy
是，你覺得我瘋了
Well, thats not fair
何止是瘋狂這不值一提
Call me crazy but I have this vision
那就叫我瘋子吧我也有了這樣的憧憬
One day that I'd walk amongst you a regular civilian
總有一天我也能像普通人一般行走在你們身旁
But until then drums get killed and Im coming straight at
但除非音樂的鼓點就此消沉否則我依舊會用犀利的話語
MCs, blood get spilled and Ill
讓說唱界血流成河
Take you back to the days that Id get on a Dre track
我希望還能回到過去唱著Dr. Dre的歌曲的日子裡
Give every kid who got played that
讓所有遭受欺負的孩子們得到勇氣
Pumped up feeling and **** to say back
讓他們鼓起自信向那些欺凌他們的
To the kids who played him
惡霸們以血還血
I aint here to save the ******* children
我才不是來拯救弱小兒童的
But if one kid out of a hundred million
但假如一億人當中有那麼一個孩子
Who are going through a struggle feels it and then relates thats great
受盡痛苦折磨但聽到我的歌能得到力量這讓我很欣慰
Its payback, Russell Wilson falling way back In the draft
那就是我的回報好比盧梭威爾遜在選秀中一路跌撞才回到賽場
In the draft, turn nothing into something, still can make that
把無變成有，依舊能把那乾草變成金塊
Straw into gold chump, I will spin Rumpelstiltskin in a haystack
我會在乾草堆中編織出侏儒怪
Maybe I need a straightjacket, face facts
也許我瘋癲到要穿上拘束衣面對事實吧
I am nuts for real, but Im okay with that
我就是個瘋子但對此我悠然自得
Its nothing, Im still friends with the
這都不算什麼我只是在和惡魔為伴
Im friends with the monster
我是妖魔的朋友
Thats under my bed
它在我的床下蟄伏
Get along with the voices inside of my head
腦子裡聲音嗡響不住，我得與它好好相處
Youre trying to save me
你想拯救我麼
Stop holding your breath
那就別屏住呼吸
And you think Im crazy
你覺得我瘋了
Yeah, you think Im crazy
是，你覺得我瘋了
Im friends with the monster
我是妖魔的朋友
Thats under my bed
它在我的床下蟄伏
Get along with the voices inside of my head
腦子裡聲音嗡響不住，我得與它好好相處
Youre trying to save me
你想拯救我麼
Stop holding your breath
那就別屏住呼吸
And you think Im crazy
你覺得我瘋了
yeah, you think Im crazy
是，你覺得我瘋了
Well, thats not fair
何止是瘋狂這不值一提