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SKYCLAD lyrics : "Deja-Vu Ain't What It Used To Be"

Have you heard the one 'bout when a most unlucky fella,
Went visiting a fair-ground for to see a fortune-teller?


She said;
"Of all the palms I've read - yours is by far the worst.
I'm duty-bound to tell you,

you've been well-and-truly cursed."

Ill-fated was my selfless quest.

Blind-faith a grave mistake.
I'd strived to do my very best,
to serve a dream quite fake.


Just one more hapless sacrifice,
spilt tears in full-flood.

Ingenuous I've paid their price.
Not all vampires suck blood!


[Chorus:]
Gazed into a crystal-ball and watched its surface crack.
When I cut the Tarot deck; Death lay there grinning back.

I've been here many times before; again the joke's on me.
I know the score, but Deja-Vu ain't what it used to be.


*O well for him that lives at ease
With garnered gold in wide domain,
Nor heeds the splashing of the rain,

The crashing down of forest trees.

*O well for him who ne'er hath known

The travail of the hungry years,
A father grey with grief and tears,
A mother weeping all alone.


To tread an unshared path alone,
was my lot from the start.

So seldom fleeting solace known,
by this rent, careworn heart.


Watch the stand-up tragedy;
famous for fifteen minutes.
I glimpsed my future and decree,

saw dearth of purpose in it.

[Chorus:]

Gazed into a crystal-ball and watched its surface crack.
When I cut the Tarot deck; Death lay there grinning back.
I've been here many times before; again the joke's on me.

I know the score, but Deja-Vu ain't what it used to be.

*But well for him whose foot hath trod

The weary road of toil and strife,
Yet from the sorrows of his life
Builds ladders to be nearer God.


[* - Taken from the verse "Cry woe, woe and let the good
prevail." By Oscar Wilde]

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