[Produced by The Neptunes]
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[Intro: JAY-Z, Pharrell]
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Young! Its the life
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Once again its the life, yes
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I dont know why, I.. get so high oh
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Its intoxicating, man, yall dont know why you do what you do
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Get so high oh, get so high, high off the life
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[Verse 1: JAY-Z]
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The allure of breaking the law
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Was always too much for me to ever ignore
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Ive got a thing for the big-body Benzes, it dulls my senses
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In love with a V-Dub engine
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Man, Im high off life, fuck it, Im wasted
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Bathing Ape kicks, Audemars Piguet wrist
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My women-friends get tennis bracelets
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Trips to Venice, get their Winters replaced with
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The sun…it aint even fun no more, Im jaded
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Man, its just a game, I just play it to play it
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I put my feet in the footprints left to me
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Without saying a word, the ghettos got a mental telepathy
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Man, my brother hustled so, naturally
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Up next was me, but what perplexes me
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Shit, I know how this movie ends, still I play
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The starring role in “Hovitos Way”
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[Chorus: JAY-Z, Pharrell]
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Its just life, I solemnly swear
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To change my approach, stop shaving coke
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Stay away from hoes, put down the toast
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‘Cause I be doing the most (Oh no!)
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But every time I felt “That was that,” it called me right back
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It called me right back
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Man, it called me right back (Oh no!)
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[Verse 2: JAY-Z]
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Im like a Russian mobster, drinking distilled vodka
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Until Im under the field with Hoffa, its real
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Peel the top up like a toupée, mix the water with the soda
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Turn the pot up, make a soufflé
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All of yall can get it like group-page on your two-way
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Im living proof that crime do pay
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Say “hooray” to the bad guy, and all the broads
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Putting cars in their name, for the stars of the game
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Putting ‘caine in their bras and their tomorrows on the train:
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All in the name of love
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Just to see that love locked in chains and the family came
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Over the house to take back everything that they claimed
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Or even the worse pain is the distress
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Learning youre the mistress only after that love gets slain
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And the anger and the sorrow mixed up leads to mistrust
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Now it gets tough to ever love again
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But the allure of the game, keeps calling your name
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To all the Lauras of the world, I feel your pain
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To all the Christies in every cities and Tiffany Lanes:
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We all hustlers in love with the same thing
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[Chorus: JAY-Z, Pharrell]
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Its just life, I solemnly swear
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To change my approach, stop shaving coke
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Stay away from hoes, put down the toast
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‘Cause I be doing the most (Oh no!)
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But every time I felt “That was that,” it called me right back
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It called me right back
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Man, it called me right back (Oh no!)
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[Verse 3: Jay-Z]
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I never felt more alive than riding shotgun
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In Kleins green 5, until the cops pulled guns
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And I tried to smoke weed to give me the fix I need –
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What the game did to my pulse – with no results
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And you can treat your nose and still wont come close
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The game is a light bulb with eleventy-million volts
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And Im just a moth addicted to the floss
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The doors lift from the floor and the tops come off
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By any means necessary, whatever the cost
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Even if it means lives is lost
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And I cant explain why I just love to get high
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Drink, “life!” smoke the blueberry sky, blink twice
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Im in the blueberry 5, you blink three times
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I may not even be alive
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I mean even James Dean couldnt escape the allure
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Dying young, leaving a good-looking corpse
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Of course…
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[Chorus: JAY-Z, Pharrell]
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Its just life, I solemnly swear
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To change my approach, stop shaving coke
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Stay away from hoes, put down the toast
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‘Cause I be doing the most (Oh no!)
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But every time I felt “That was that,” it called me right back
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It called me right back
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Man, it called me right back (Oh no!)
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[Outro: JAY-Z, Pharrell]
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Once again its the life
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Yeah I said its the life
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Once I again its the life
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(Oh no! I dont know why, I…)
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(Get so high oh)
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(Get so high oh)
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(Get so high, high off the life)
