Eminem – The Monster (feat. Rihanna) (Arti Lagu)

Pada tahun 2010 saya pernah memposting sebuah arti lagu yang mempunyai makna khusus bagi saya. Yup, kisah dalam lagu tersebut hampir sama persih dengan yang terjadi dengan kehidupan percintaan saya. Dan sampai sekarang jika saya mendengarkan lagu tersebut, saya masih suka berkaca-kaca saking dalam dan bermaknanya lagu itu dalam menceritakan kisah cintaku. Sudah tiga tahun, dia juga sudah punya satu momongan, tapi masih suka nyesek kalau mengingat wanita itu. Bagaimana tidak nyesek, saya kan bukan Rihanna yang bisa mengatakan "Love The Way You Lie" dengan entengnya. I Don't Love The Way You Lie, saya tidak suka dengan kebohongan yang telah dilakukannya kepada saya.

Setelah tiga tahun berlalu, tahun ini saya baru tahu kalau ada duet maut antara Rihanna dan Eminem, The Monster. Saya langsung suka dengan lagu ini sejak pertama kali mendengarnya. Gila aja, dan kayaknya bakal jadi lagu favoritku lagi tahun ini. 

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

Bagian si Rihanna ini bercerita tentang dirinya yang kini menikmati sisi negatif yang ada dalam dirinya. Meski terdengar gila, tapi dia berani mengakui bahwa The Monster yang ada dalam dirinya kini telah menjadi bagiannya. Dia bisa menyesuaikan, dan dia telah berdamai dengan sisi negatif yang ada dalam dirinya itu. 

Lain dengan bagian si Rihanna, bagian Eminem malah berkisah tentang sisi buruk dari ketenaran yang telah diraihnya. Meski sedari awal ketika dia ingin dikenal orang, ingin terkenal, tapi setelah dia menjadi terkenal, malah dia menjadi kehilangan rasa damai yang selalu dirindukannya. 

Bagi kamu yang belum pernah mendengarkan lagu ini, silahkan didengarkan mautnya duet maut dari dua artis papan atas ini; 

Eminem – The Monster (feat. Rihanna)

[Chorus - Rihanna]

I'm friends with the monster

That's under my bed

Get along with the voices inside of my head

You're trying to save me

Stop holding your breath

And you think I'm crazy

Yeah, you think I'm crazy (crazy)

[Eminem - Verse 1]

I wanted the fame, but not the cover of Newsweek

Oh well, guess beggers can't be choosey

Wanted to receive attention for my music

Wanted to be left alone, public excuse me

Been wanting my cake, And eat it too

Wanting it both ways

Fame may be a balloon cause my ego inflated

When I blew seep it was confusing

Cause all I wanted to do is be the Bruce Lee of loose leaf

Abused ink, used it as a tool when I blew steam

Hit the lottery (oh wee)

With what I gave up to get was bittersweet

It was like winning a huge meet

Ironic 'cause I think I'm getting so big I need a shrink

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

Going cucko and cuckier as Kool Keith

But I'm actually weirder than you think

Cause I'm...

[Chorus]

I'm friends with the monster

That's under my bed

Get along with the voices inside of my head

You're trying to save me

Stop holding your breath

And you think I'm crazy

Yeah, you think I'm crazy

Well, that's nothing

Well, that's nothing

[Eminem - Verse 2]

Now I ain't much of a poet

But I know somebody once told me to seize the moment

And don't squander it

Cause you never know when it could all be over

Tomorrow so I keep conjuring

Sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from

(Yeah, ponder it, do you wonder there's no wonder you're losing your mind the way you're brought up?)

I think you've been wandering off down yonder and stumbled upon Jeff VanVonderen

Cause I needed an interventionist to intervene between me and this monster

And save me from myself and all this conflict

Cause the very things that I love is killing me and I can't conquer it

My OCD is clonking me in the head

Keep knocking, nobody's home, I'm sleepwalking

I'm just relaying what the voice of my head saying

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

[Chorus]

I'm friends with the monster

That's under my bed

Get along with the voices inside of my head

You're trying to save me

Stop holding your breath

And you think I'm crazy

Yeah, you think I'm crazy

Well, that's nothing

Well, that's nothing

[Eminem - Verse 3]

Call me crazy, but I had this vision

One day that, I'd walk amongst you regular civilians

But, until then,

drums get killed and I'm Coming straight at

Emcees, blood get spilled and I

Take it back to the days that, I get on a Dre track

Give every kid who got played at

Pumped the feeling

and shit that say back

To the kids who played 'em

I ain't here to save the fucking children

But if one kid out of a hundred million

Who are going through a struggle feels and relates that's great

It's payback, Russell Wilson falling way back

In the draft, turn nothing into something still, can make that

Straw in the gold chump I will spend

Rumpelstiltskin in a hay stack

Maybe I need a straightjacket, face facts

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

It's nothing, I'm still friends with a...

[Bridge]

I'm friends with the monster

That's under my bed

Get along with the voices inside of my head

You're trying to save me

Stop holding 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 trying to save me

Stop holding your breath

And you think I'm crazy

Yeah, you think I'm crazy

Well, that's nothing