Déjà Vu

About Déjà Vu

"Déjà Vu" is a song by English rock musician and former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters, and the second track on his fourth solo studio album, Is This the Life We Really Want? It was released as a single on 8 May 2017, with the album being released on 2 June 2017, by Columbia Records. It was previously known as "Lay Down Jerusalem (If I Had Been God)" when played live before single's official release. Waters reintroduced the 'Lay Down Jerusalem' refrain in live performances dating from the 2018 Oceania leg of his Us + Them Tour.  more »

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2017

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If I had been God
I would have rearranged the veins in the face to make them more 
Resistant to alcohol and less prone to ageing

If I had been God
I would have sired many sons and I would not have suffered 
The Romans to kill even one of them

If I had been God
With my staff and my rod
If I had been given the nod
I believe I could have done a better job

If I were a drone
Patrolling foreign skies
With my electronic eyes for guidance
And the element of surprise
I would be afraid to find someone home
Maybe a woman at a stove
Baking bread, making rice, or just boiling down some bones
If I were a drone

The temple's in ruins
The bankers get fat
The buffalo's gone
And the mountain top's flat
The trout in the streams are all hermaphrodites
You lean to the left but you walk to the right

And it feels like déjà vu
The sun goes down and I'm still missing you
Counting the cost of love that got lost
And under my Gulf Stream, in circular balls
There's ninety-nine cents worth of drunkards and fools

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Roger Waters

George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. He was a founder member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, serving as bassist and co-lead vocalist. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became the band's lyricist, principal songwriter and conceptual leader. The band subsequently achieved international success in the 1970s with the concept albums The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall. Although Waters' primary instrument in Pink Floyd was the bass guitar, he also experimented with synthesisers and tape loops and played rhythm guitar on recordings and in concerts. Amid creative differences within the group, Waters left Pink Floyd in 1985 and began a … more »

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