Nas - Déjà vu lyrics

Through the lights, cameras
And action glamour, glitters and gold
I unfold the scroll
Plant seeds to stampede the globe
When I'm deceased
By then the beast'll rise like yeast
To conquer peace
Leavin' savages to roam in the streets
Live on the run
Police payin' me to give in my gun
Trick my wisdom with the system
That imprisons my son
Smoke a gold leaf, I hold heat, nonchalantly
I'm raunchy, but things I do is real
It never haunts me
While, funny-style niggas roll in the pile
Rooster heads profile on a bus to Rikers Isle
Holdin’ weed inside they pussy
With they minds on the pretty things in life
Gettin' props is a true thug's wife
It's like a cycle niggas come home
Some'll go in do a bullet, come back
And do the same shit again
From the womb to the tomb
I presume the unpredictable
Guns salute life rapidly, that's the ritual

Here's a toast to my foes, trees & women
(Déjà Vu) it's like a whole new beginnin'
Here's a toast to my foes, trees & women
(Déjà Vu) it's like a whole new beginnin'
Here's a toast to my foes, trees & women
(Déjà Vu) it's like a whole new beginnin'
Here's a toast to my foes, trees & women
(Déjà Vu) it's like a whole new beginnin'

Blunts, thugs and alcohol what a mixture
Just picture your life as a
Whole judged in court, they convict ya
They tellin' you your state of
Mind like you worthless
So he curses, his mom's sayin' Bible verses
That's all she works with
But miracles never leave the churches
Instead, it hit's the pockets of
The preacher just to purchase
A house with a swimming pool
Labels me a sinnin' fool
I'm just a nigga who
Inherited a winnin' jewel
To be a trendsetter
Whenever subject to respect this
And all respect due is the essential
To street life, hustlin’, the struggle
Broke ghettos
Boilin' coke settles slow inside
A glass kettle darren Levy on my TV
Lifestyles of livin' easy got my crew tense
Plottin’ up gyps to get whips with BB's
Pushin' cakes, knew anorexics with ten plates
Celebratin' elevation in the seeds
That we make so how you like that?

Here's a toast to my foes, trees & women
(Déjà Vu) it's like a whole new beginnin'
Here's a toast to my foes, trees & women
(Déjà Vu) it's like a whole new beginnin'
Here's a toast to my foes, trees & women
(Déjà Vu) it's like a whole new beginnin'
Here's a toast to my foes, trees & women
(Déjà Vu) it's like a whole new beginnin'

Escobar life, gems and raw Timbs
Gators for pretty boy haters
In Vegas with chicks trickin’ fortunes
I'm glistenin', housing cops whistlin'
Still I'm driftin' in a high
Blunts is like insulin
95-I, I drive high, zonin'
Stash box zone in my trunk, I flash knots
Teeth golden
Look at me now, Ma blowin’, but how far?
Cars, cash and bitches got me out more
And things you never dreamed
I could vouch for
Snake niggas slither on they a-alikes
I ain't a Christian
But I find that we pray alike
Never the one to ask for the time to a saint
A mask and 9, I think
Will make my problems sink
Down a canal, similar to how we drink
Distinct diamond-flooded Sphinx shines
On my links drug money, snortin’ bitches
In the end of time, got my 9
'Til I flatline, nigga, gimme mine

Déjà vu