I'll Be Max, You Be the Monster

I took a letter to myself and found out quite fast

I'm bad with words

With all the paper on my bedroom floor I could make

A quite life-like caricature

Of the Monster living under my bed

Who won't stop eating my homework,

Feeding my goldfish and stealing my friends

I know my mother said there's nothing to fear

But I know he's here

I never heard her voice sound so sincere

She said if everything's not alright, you can come stay here

I said just give me an hour, but I'll make it last all year

You know it's nothing but a compliment I paid to you in cold hard cash

And now they're coming very far between from me, so you best make that money last

You don't believe me when I promise you that I won't ever let you down

But I know that it's getting better in spite of the stormy weather

That always falls on me when you come around

(chorus)

What do you say to that one?

Now you know I'm not a fighter, but I'll go through that for you.

What do you say to just one?

Just one more chance at making sure that this is true.

You gotta tell me now if I am not the one

Then you gotta let me go

It's not that hard to do

You only gotta do what's right for you

If you could ever believe it I finally found a way to win this race against myself

Tempted by the urge of other places I finally put my love upon the shelf.

With the books and pages that never me hold true, the words that left with you

And the eyes that never seem to dry

Oh won't you try, won't you try

(bridge)

(chorus)