Allure
Danger Mouse Lyrics

Young! For life
Asserting that age doesn't dampen his spirit or enthusiasm for life.

Once again it's the life, yessss
Repeating the positive affirmation about life with added enthusiasm.

(I don't know why, I.. get so high on)
Posing a rhetorical question to express confusion about why he is enjoying this lifestyle.

It's intoxicating, man, y'all don't know why you do what you do
Suggesting that the lifestyle is addictive and a source of entertainment

(Get so high, get so high - high off the life)
Repeating the phrase in a playful and catchy manner to reiterate that this life experience is addictive.

The allure of breaking the law is always too much for me to ever ignore
Admitting that the temptation of breaking the law is always too much to resist.

I gotta thing for them big body Benzes, it dulls my senses, in love with a V-Dub engine
Confessing to a love for luxury cars that impairs his judgement and senses.

Man, I'm high off life, fuck it, I'm wasted
Acknowledging that he is feeling the high of the lifestyle and is 'wasted' as a result.

Bathing Ape kicks, or them Marvin Kaye wrists, my women friend get tennis bracelets
Boasting about his luxurious and fashionable lifestyle and how he treats his romantic partners.

Trips to Venice, get their winters replaced with the sun, it ain't even fun no more I'm jaded, man, it's just a game, I just play it to play it
Reflecting on how he has become jaded about his extravagant lifestyle and is just playing the game to continue partying.

I put my feet in the footprints left to me, without saying a word, the ghetto's got a mental telepathy, man, my brother hustled so, naturally up next is me
Recognizing the expectation that he has to continue the same lifestyle as his brother and how people from his community may perceive him.

But what perplexes me, shit, I know how this movie ends, still I play the starin' role in Hovito's Way
Acknowledging that he knows this lifestyle can have dire consequences, but still deliberately continues to pursue it while nodding to the infamous movie 'Scarface' and his own nickname.

It's just life, I solemnly swear, to change my approach, stop shaving coke, stay away from hoes, put down the toast, cause I be doing the most
Admitting that he needs to make a change in his lifestyle by discontinuing drug use, avoiding promiscuous behavior, and not carrying weapons due to his penchant for excess.

But every time I felt that was that, it called me right back, it called me right back, man, it called me right back - oh no!
Admitting that every time he tries to change his lifestyle, he is drawn back to his old ways.

I'm like a Russian mobster, drinkin' distilled vodka, 'til I'm under the field with Hoffa, it's real
Painting a picture of the rough and fearless nature of his character, comparing himself to powerful mafia figure Jimmy Hoffa.

Pillow-top him like a toupee, mix the water with the soda, turn the pot up make a soufflé
Describing the process of manufacturing drugs.

All of y'all can get it like groupies in your two-way, I'm living proof that crime do pay
Brags that he can sell drugs to anyone who wants it due to his popularity and success.

Say hooray to the bad guy, and all the broads puttin' cars in their name for the stars of the game, puttin' 'caine in their bras and their tomorrows on the train, all in the name of love, just to see that love locked in chains
Recognizing the attractiveness of the luxurious and extravagant lifestyle that comes with being a drug dealer but ultimately accepting that people get hurt and there are risks.

And the anger and the sorrow mixed up leads to mistrust, now it gets tough to ever love again, but the allure of the game, keeps callin' your name, to all the Lauras of the world, I feel your pain
Admitting that the risks associated with such a lifestyle can introduce feelings of anger and mistrust that make it challenging to ever trust or love again.

I never felt more alive than ridin' shotgun In Cline's green 5 until the cops pulled guns And I tried to smoke weed to give me the fix I need what the game did to my pulse, with no results
Sharing an exhilarating experience in a car until the police intervened, admitting to using marijuana as a coping mechanism, and expressing that no amount of illicit drugs can provide respite from the intense lifestyle.

And you can treat your nose, and still won't come close. The game is a lightbulb with eleventy-million volts, and I'm just a moth addicted to the floss, and doors lift from the floor, and the tops come off
Translating that even if he stops drug usage, it still won't give him the same level of high as he gets from his extravagant lifestyle, due to his addiction to luxury.

By any means necessary, whatever the cost, even if it means lives is lost, and I can't explain why, I just love to get high, drink life, smoke the blueberry sky, blink twice, I'm in the blueberry 5, you blink three times, I may not even be alive
Acknowledging that he is willing to do whatever it takes to maintain the lifestyle, including endangering himself or others, because he can't help but love the excess.

How mean James Dean couldn't escape the allure, dyin' young, leaving a good-lookin' corpse, of course
Referencing James Dean's youthful, sad demise to illustrate how no one can escape the tragic fallouts of a reckless and transformative life-lived.

Once again it's the life, I said it's the life, once again it's the life - oh no! (I don't know why I) why I (get so high on) get so (get so high on) uh-huh (get so high - high off the life!)
Ending the track with a reiteration of his stance on the magnetic draw and allure of a lavish, reckless lifestyle despite its consequences.