[VERSE 1:]
Ah! And when I wake up
I feel like we got star struck
And headed back in time to the year 1984
Cos I'm addressed by the same Head of State
Same one my father knew in 1984
And they telling me times change
(Times change)
How come we writing history in the same book by the same author of 1984?
Oh well, if it is George Orwell
I might be wrong
And this could be some sort of animal farm again
You hear ‘bout that hay stacks and gra** again?
Or did evolution reverse its place and
We done become apes again?
Is it just my feelings?
Don't you feel as though we some beasts of burden again?
There's a cart attached to this hearse I'm riding
And Boxer died in this way
How many times I done cruised with the slogan
Done rode with the motto “animals equal”?
The question is, who's the animal?
Don't play ignorant of the evil
Black lives ain't matter there
Black lives still ain't matter here
I walked the same paths my father walked
And they never seen no repairs since the year 1984
Actually it was before that
It was before Pac
But before my eyes I can see the fact
That we already treading the same bush paths
That led our fathers through the wilderness and Ha!
You really wanna think that chicken and fries
Are any different from that quail and manna?
Hey listen let tell you how they stories turned out
None of ‘em made it alive, they died
[HOOK (Edako):]
I be like la la la
This is de javu
What we've seen before
Coming right back at you
I be like la la la
I've been in these shoes
We've been here before
[VERSE 2:]
We been at this point before in this season
We hit an iceberg, everything sinking
Jack's in the water, love sacrificial
But their hearts turn cold and the man would be freezing
You made sacrifices, they became gods
Sacrificed your art just to gain they heart
But they remained numb to your prayers for change
Then hit you with a storm
What a pretense for rain
I know, I know
But we done rode down this road before
So when critics are rolling stones
Just know that you ain't rode it first
They did it to Jesus (They did it to Jesus my Lord o)
And did it to Stephen (But Stephen was just like my Lord o)
Father forgive ‘em they don't know what they do
So I be on the Rock (On the Rock like Movado)
But I feel it on me
So I pray to the Father when they crush my existence
I ask for the grace not to hold it against them
I wonder a dying man thinking ‘bout vengeance
How many leaders you need and yet pray for they d**h?
(And yet pray for they d**h)
Very many evil men exist that should die but it was
(Mandela instead)
They replaced a criminal with Jesus
So why are you surprised? (Actually it's fear)
Seven nominations and not one win they thought
(We got the snake by its head)
Crap done hit the fan you just don't remember man
Judas part of that twelve like that December man
How many leaders you say you love
But ain't heed they words and then pray for they fall?
You throwing these fits but you looking for seizures
Like people at summer you anticipate fall
Is it MDK or KB you say
You hoping for a Stephen Curry at the NBA?
If I had to keep on guessing or just had to roll a dice
The lot definitely fall upon the man Lecrae
The man who gave us the “Background”
You say he misleading?
Tell me the “Rebel” he be of the devil
He's full of the evil, you feeling ‘em demons? (Really?)
So when I say “I know these moments would come”
I done seen it in my dreams
Pardon my visions of woe, but so long as you getting the messages written between
That the days would come when the love turns war
And the sweet turns sour, put the vinegar to work
When these stones come crashing through your gla** house party
Make sure you keep to heart these words about it
If you lose your life you can save it, you can bank on it
If you trying to save your life you gon' bankrupt it
That's a warning for when you file for that bankruptcy
So while y'all stuck in suspension
Wondering what happens next, (What happens next?)
I know how the story ends
De Javu in the end we win
[HOOK:]
I be like la la la
This is de javu
What we've seen before
Coming right back at you
I be like la la la
I've been in these shoes
We've been here before