Deja-vu Ain't What It Used To Be Lyrics - Skyclad

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! 

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[Chorus:] 

Gazed into a crystal-ball and watched it's 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. 

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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 it's 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]