Déjà Vu (Roger Waters song)

"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,[1] with the album being released on 2 June 2017,[2][3][4] by Columbia Records. It was previously known as "Lay Down Jerusalem (If I Had Been God)" when played live before single's official release.[5] Waters reintroduced the 'Lay Down Jerusalem' refrain in live performances dating from the 2018 Oceania leg of his Us + Them Tour.[6][7] A reprise of this song with the excised verses "And if I were a Muslim/And you were a Jew/If I were a Mennonite/And you were an Hindu/Would we exchange/The weight of these chains/Chains of belief/And the carnage on the trains to turn over a new leaf" and "If I had been God/I would not have chosen anyone/I would have laid an even hand/On all my children everyone/Would have been content/To forgo Ramadan and Lent/Time better spent/In the company of friends/Breaking bread and mending nets" appears on the album version of Roger Waters: Us + Them.

"Déjà Vu"
Single by Roger Waters
from the album Is This the Life We Really Want?
Released8 May 2017
GenreArt rock
Length4:27
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Roger Waters
Producer(s)Nigel Godrich
Roger Waters singles chronology
"Smell The Roses"
(2017)		 "Déjà Vu"
(2017)		 "The Last Refugee"
(2017)

Track listing
UK promotional single
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Déjà Vu"Roger Waters4:27

Personnel

References
  1. Gil Kaufman (2017-09-05). "Watch Roger Waters Perform 'Deja Vu' on 'The Late Show'". Billboard. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  2. Grow, Kory (16 February 2017). "Hear Roger Waters Tease New 'Is This the Life We Really Want?' LP". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  3. Gil Kaufman. "Roger Waters Posts New Tease of First Solo Rock Album in 25 Years, 'Is This the Life We Really Want?'". Billboard.com. billboard.com. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  4. Wicks, Amanda (3 March 2017). "Roger Waters Previews New Album 'Is This The Life We Really Want?'". Radio.com. Archived from the original on 23 March 2017. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  5. http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/roger-waters/2014/european-parliament-brussels-belgium-1bcf6180.html
  6. http://s7.zetaboards.com/Pink_Floyd/single/?p=30741735&t=11005444
  7. Daniel Johnson (2018-01-02). "Pink Floyd founding member Roger Waters brings his Us + Them tour to Brisbane". Courier-Mail. Retrieved 7 February 2018.


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