Allure

Album: The Black Album (2003)
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  • The allure of breaking the law
    Was always too much for me to ever ignore
    I've got a thing for the big-body Benzes, it dulls my senses
    In love with a V-Dub engine
    Man, I'm high off life, fuck it, I'm wasted
    Bathing Ape kicks, Audemars Piguet wrist
    My women friends get tennis bracelets
    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
    I put my feet in the footprints left to me
    Without saying a word, the ghetto's got a mental telepathy
    My brother hustled so naturally
    Up next was me but what perplexes me
    Shit, I know how this movie ends! yet still I play
    The starring role in "Hovito's Way"

    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, oh no
    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

    I'm like a Russian mobster, drinking distilled vodka
    Until I'm under the field with Hoffa, it's real
    Peel the top up like a toupee
    Mix the water with the soda
    Turn the pot up, make a souffle
    All of y'all can get it like group-page on your 2-way
    I'm living proof that crime do pay
    Say "hooray" to the bad guy, and all the broads
    Putting cars in their name, for the stars of the game
    Putting 'caine in their bras and their tomorrows on the train
    All in the Name of Love
    Just to see that love locked in chains and the family came
    Over the house to take back everything that they claimed
    Or even the worse pain is the distress
    Learning you're the mistress only after that love gets slain
    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 calling your name
    To all the Lauras of the world, I feel your pain
    To all the Christies in different cities and Tiffany Lanes
    We all hustlers in love with the same thing

    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, oh no
    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

    I never felt more alive than riding shotgun
    In Klein'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
    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
    The doors lift from the floor and the tops come off
    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
    I mean even James Dean couldn't escape the allure
    Dying young, leaving a good-lookin corpse, of course

    I solemnly swear
    To change my approach, stop shaving coke
    Stay away from hoes, put down the toast
    'Cause I be doing the most, oh no
    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 Writer/s: Chad Hugo, Pharrell L Williams, Shawn Carter
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Mike F from Houston, TxJay absolutely killed this track. One of his best, no question.
  • Nigel07 from California, CaI love this song! It's one of the best!!
  • George from Little Rock, ArThis is my favorite Jay-Z song, the lyrics are on point as usual.
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