Good Life
Shayfer James Lyrics


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We've got a cabinet full of clowns
With panhandle haircuts
You'll believe it when you see it for yourself
There's a lady in the lounge
Wearing technicolor makeup
Mixing drinks to make you think you're someone else

You want that good life
We've got a shortcut
So come inside and have a look

You want that good life
We've got the hookup
So come inside, come inside
And get that good, good life

There's an eagle in the attic
With a semi automatic
There's a couple gettin' frisky in the hall

A television in the kitchen
That'll feed your children static
When you're lonely
There's a number you can call

Yeah

You want that good life
We've got a shortcut
So come inside and have a look

You want that good life
We've got the hookup
So come inside, come inside
And get that good, good life

Folks!
Pay no attention to those crooks behind the curtain
They will tell you your future is lovely and certain
They will sell you a dream for a dollar-ninety-nine
Oh they'll make you repay it or call it a crime

Folks!
We are losing a war with the enemy within us
All the greed that we feed will devour and kill us
But step on up, come on up, step on up
And come inside
'Cause you got everything to prove
There is nothing you can hide

You want that good life
We've got a shortcut
So come inside and have a look

You want that good life
We've got the hookup
So come inside, come inside
And get that good good life

You want that good life
We've got a shortcut
So come inside and have a look

You want that good life
We've got the hookup




So come inside, come inside
And get that good, good life

Overall Meaning

The song "Good Life" by Shayfer James is a sarcastic commentary on the superficiality and emptiness of modern society's obsession with wealth and material possessions. The opening lines describe a cabinet full of clowns with panhandle haircuts, followed by a lady in a lounge wearing technicolor makeup, mixing drinks to make you feel like someone else. These characters symbolize the false sense of happiness and fulfillment that people try to achieve through material possessions and superficial lifestyles.


The song continues to describe an eagle in the attic with a semi-automatic, a couple getting frisky in the hall, and a television in the kitchen that feeds children static. These images further the idea that the pursuit of wealth and superficial pleasure can lead to emptiness and danger. The lyrics "pay no attention to those crooks behind the curtain" and "we are losing a war with the enemy within us" suggest that people are being sold a false idea of what a good life really means, and that they need to look within themselves to find true happiness.


Overall, "Good Life" is a warning against the dangers of the pursuit of material wealth and the importance of finding true happiness within oneself.


Line by Line Meaning

We've got a cabinet full of clowns
We have a lot of strange and unusual characters around us.


With panhandle haircuts
Some of these characters have unusual hairstyles.


You'll believe it when you see it for yourself
These characters are hard to describe and need to be seen to be understood.


There's a lady in the lounge
Among the strange people around us, there is a woman in the lounge.


Wearing technicolor makeup
This woman is wearing bright and unusual makeup.


Mixing drinks to make you think you're someone else
This woman is serving drinks that might alter your perception of reality.


You want that good life
You are seeking a better life.


We've got a shortcut
We have a way to achieve that better life quickly and easily.


So come inside and have a look
We invite you to come see for yourself how we can help you.


We've got the hookup
We have the connections and resources to help you achieve that better life.


And get that good, good life
We can help you obtain the satisfying and fulfilling life you desire.


There's an eagle in the attic
In addition to the strange people around us, there is an eagle in the attic.


With a semi automatic
This eagle is armed with a gun.


There's a couple gettin' frisky in the hall
Furthermore, there is a couple engaging in sexual activity in the hallway.


A television in the kitchen
There is a television located in the kitchen.


That'll feed your children static
This television only shows static and is not useful for entertainment or education.


When you're lonely
If you ever feel lonely or isolated, there is something we can offer you.


There's a number you can call
You can call a specific phone number to reach us.


Pay no attention to those crooks behind the curtain
There are people who may deceive you, but you should not be concerned with them.


They will tell you your future is lovely and certain
These deceptive people will make promises about the future that may not come true.


They will sell you a dream for a dollar-ninety-nine
These misleading people will offer you something too good to be true for a low price.


Oh they'll make you repay it or call it a crime
If you fall for their schemes, they may require you to pay them more money or accuse you of a crime.


We are losing a war with the enemy within us
As a society, we are struggling against our own internal problems and challenges.


All the greed that we feed will devour and kill us
If we continue to indulge in selfishness and excess, it will ultimately lead to our own downfall.


But step on up, come on up, step on up
Despite these challenges, we encourage you to approach us and seek our help.


And come inside
We urge you to enter our world and see what we offer.


'Cause you got everything to prove
We believe that you have the potential to achieve the life you want, and we want to help you prove it.


There is nothing you can hide
We assure you that there is no shame or wrongdoing that we will not accept and help you overcome.




Writer(s): Shayfer James

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Most interesting comments from YouTube:

@alexisrieck9928

I think I figured out what the item numbers mean!

They're dates in the format MDD-YYYY!
Here are the items, their dates, what happened on those dates in american history, and what the associated items could symbolize.

Drill:
320-2003
March 20th, 2003:
A US-led coalition launches a ground invasion of Iraq after an ultimatum for Saddam Hussein and his sons to leave Iraq expires. The drill could represent the U.S military invading (drilling into) Iraq.

Blender:
316-1973
March 16th, 1973:
OPEC discusses raising prices to offset decline of U.S. dollar value. This might be why Shayfer James blended the hundred dollar bills.

Knife set:
806-1945
August 6th, 1945:
The bombing of Hiroshima (and later Nagasaki) by the U.S. during WWII, being the world's first deployed atomic bomb. The knife set could symbolize a major point of destruction, and the pillow that was erupting feathers after being stabbed could be a metaphor for the mushroom cloud created by the atomic bomb.

Vacuum:
118-2016
January 18th, 2016:
World's 62 richest people are now as wealthy as half the world's population according to a report published by Oxfam. The vacuum could represent the power vacuum as only 62 the world's richest people hold as much wealth as the rest of the world population, as the majority of the world gets less and less say.



@sleepytwink4

We've got a cabinet full of clowns
With panhandle haircuts
You'll believe it when you see it for yourself
There's a lady in the lounge
Wearing technicolor makeup
Mixing drinks to make you think you're someone else

You want that good life
We've got a shortcut
So come inside and have a look

You want that good life
We've got the hookup
So come inside, come inside
And get that good, good life

There's an eagle in the attic
With a semi automatic
There's a couple gettin' frisky in the hall

A television in the kitchen
That'll feed your children static
When you're lonely
There's a number you can call

Yeah

You want that good life
We've got a shortcut
So come inside and have a look

You want that good life
We've got the hookup
So come inside, come inside
And get that good, good life

Folks!
Pay no attention to those crooks behind the curtain
They will tell you your future is lovely and certain
They will sell you a dream for a dollar-ninety-nine
Oh they'll make you repay it or call it a crime

Folks!
We are losing a war with the enemy within us
All the greed that we feed will devour and kill us
But step on up, come on up, step on up
And come inside
'Cause you got everything to prove
There is nothing you can hide

You want that good life
We've got a shortcut
So come inside and have a look

You want that good life
We've got the hookup
So come inside, come inside
And get that good good life

You want that good life
We've got a shortcut
So come inside and have a look

You want that good life
We've got the hookup
So come inside, come inside
And get that good, good life



@kestrel9372

Shayfer James - Good Life (Official)


We've got a cabinet full of clowns With pandhandle haircuts
์ž๋ณธ์— ์ฉ”์€ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ์—, ์˜ท์žฅ์—” ๊ด‘๋Œ€ ์˜ท์ด ๊ฐ€๋“ํ•œ ๋ชจ์Šต
You'll believe it When you see it for yourself
๋ฏฟ๊ธฐ์ง€ ์•Š๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ํ•œ ๋ˆˆ์— ๋ด๋„ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋‹น์‹ ์˜ ๋ชจ์Šต ๊ฐ™๋„ค์š”
There's a lady in the lounge Wearing technicolor makeup
์ €๊ธฐ ๊ฑฐ์‹ค์— ํ…Œํฌ๋‹ˆ์ปฌ๋Ÿฌ ํ™”์žฅ์„ ํ•œ ์•„๊ฐ€์”จ๋Š”
Mixing drinks to make you think You're someone else
๋‹น์‹ ์—๊ฒŒ ํ•œ ์ž”์˜ ๋งฅ ๋น ์ง„ ๋ฐฐ์›…์„ ์•„์นจ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐˆ์•„ ์ฃผ๋„ค์š”.

<hook>
<๋ฐ˜๋ณต ์ ˆ>

You want that Good Life We've got a shortcut
์ข‹์€ ์‚ถ์„ ์›ํ•˜์‹ ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์ง๋นต์ธ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ๋‹ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค
So come inside And have a look
๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ˆ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๊ตฌ๊ฒฝ๋“ค ํ•ด๋ณด์„ธ์š”
You want that Good Life We've got the hook up
์ข‹์€ ์‚ถ์„ ์›ํ•˜์‹ ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ํ›… ๋„์›Œ๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ฃ 
So come inside, come inside And get that Good, Good Life
๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ˆ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๊ตฌ๊ฒฝํ•ด๋ณด์„ธ์š”, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ข‹์€ ์‚ถ, ์ข‹์€ ์‚ถ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€์„ธ์š”


There's an eagle in the attic With a semi-automatic
๋‹ค๋ฝ ๋”ธ๋ฆฐ ์ง‘์— ๋…์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ํ‹€์— ๋ฐ•ํ˜€ ์‚ฌ๋„ค์š”
There's a couple Getting frisky in the hall
์ € ๋„ˆ๋จธ์—๋Š” ํ•œ ์ปคํ”Œ์ด ํ•œ์ฐฝ ์—ผ์žฅ์งˆ์„ ํ•˜์ง€์š”
A television In the kitchen
์ฃผ๋ฐฉ์— ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฐ ํ…”๋ ˆ๋น„์ „์€
That'll feed Your children static
๋‹น์‹  ์•„์ด๋ฅผ ๊ณตํ—ˆ๋กœ ์ฑ„์›Œ์ฃผ๋„ค์š”
When You're lonely there's A number you can call
ํ˜น์‹œ๋‚˜ ์™ธ๋กœ์šฐ์‹œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์—ฌ๊ธฐ ์ „ํ™”๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”


<hook>
<๋ฐ˜๋ณต ์ ˆ>


Folks, pay no attention To those crooks behind the curtain
์—ฌ๋ณด๋“ค, ์ € ์ปคํŠผ ๋’ค์— ์ˆจ์€ ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ๊พผ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ์ฃผ์ง€ ๋งˆ์‹œ์˜ค
The will tell you your future Is lovely and certain
๋Œ์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋Š” ์•„์ฃผ ๋ฉ‹์ง„ ์‚ถ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์žฅ๋‹ดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„ค
They will sell you a dream For a dollar ninety-nine
์ €๋“ค์€ ๊ฟˆ์ด๋ž„ ์žก๊ฒƒ๋“ค์„ ๊ณ ์ž‘ 1.99 ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์— ํŒ”์•„์น˜์šฐ๋Š” ์ž‘์ž๋“ค์ด๋ผ๋„ค
Then make you repay it Or call it a crime
๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋„Œ ๊ณ„์† ์‚ฌ๊ณ , ์–ด์ฉŒ๋ฉด ๋ฒ”์ฃ„๋ฅผ ๋ถ€๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๊ฒ ์ง€
Folks, we are losing a war With the enemy within us
์—ฌ๋ณด๋“ค, ์šฐ๋ฆฐ ์„œ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์ด์— ์ˆจ์€ ์ ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ์ „์Ÿ์—์„œ ์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์†Œ
The greed that we feed Will devour and kill us
์ด๋Œ€๋กœ ํƒ์š•์„ ๋ถˆ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค๊ฐ€๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฐ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์— ์žก์•„๋จนํžˆ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ฃฝ์ž„๋‹นํ• ๊ฑฐ์š”
But step on up, come on up Step on up, come inside
๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ˆ, ํ•œ ๋ฐœ, ํ•œ ๋ฐœ์”ฉ ์ด๋ฆฌ ๋“ค์–ด์˜ค์‹œ์˜ค
Cause you got Everything to prove
๋‹น์‹ ์€ ์•„๋ฌด๋Ÿฐ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋„ ์—†์œผ๋‹ˆ
And there is Nothing you can hide
๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ˆ ์•„๋ฌด ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์ˆจ๊ธธ ํ•„์š”๊ฐ€ ์—†๋‹ค์˜ค



<hook>x2
<๋ฐ˜๋ณต ์ ˆ>x2

here a korean Lyrics
good song



All comments from YouTube:

@alexis4524

Found it first in a Disco Elysium animatic and frankly I love it, listening to it on repeat. Also just noticed it loops perfectly

@ShayferJames

๐Ÿ–คโœจ

@meowmeowka7341

same thing! lol

@Sandra-hc4vo

yep same, great song!

@mrpages6384

You and me both brother, this is a banger straight

@broblerone413

eyyy same! (i've listened to and enjoyed some of his music before, but somehow never came across this song until the animatic)

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@little.miss.teacup

villain music is a genre and itโ€™s founder is shayfer james

@ShayferJames

tips hat

@little.miss.teacup

itโ€™s an honor to commit crimes to your music โœจ watching shrek 2 on a sketchy movie site while your songs play in the background hit different

@ShayferJames

๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ

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