Déjà Vu - Intellectual

[Intro: James Baldwin]

Your manhood is being slowly destroyed hour by hour, day by day. Your woman's watching it; you're watching her watch it. The love that you have for each other is being destroyed hour by hour and day by day. It's not her fault, ifs not your fault, but there it goes because the pressures under which you live are inhuman

[Chorus: Helixx C. Armageddon]

Days go by

Some say that time flys, well

When I see you

All those memories

All that energy

Déjà vu

[Verse: Rhymefest]

No identity for these boys, emotional injuries

Maybe they are not thе men they pretеnd to be

They tell me men don't cry, so now I just won't cry

My blood pressure through the roof, and damn, I don't know why

I self-medicate, blowing the smoke to the most high

His spirit is weak; if they can't win, then they won't try

Temper tantrums, your first reactions be the worst reactions

She said you need to "grow up," he turned, around and smacked her

She swung and knocked him backwards, then grabbed the bags, and packed 'em

Their shorty watching this shit, now look how that impacts (damn)

He taught to not express his feelings, you can't even ask 'em

He can't express feelings man, don't even ask 'em

[Bridge: Rhymefest and Helixx C. Armageddon ]

When these men is raised by women

Boys don't know what role to fit in

Then they keep feminine, with

You and Mama, ya'll be twinning

Daddy calling, you resenting

Now he makes the same decisions

In the mirror, spitting image

(Déjà vu)

[Interlude: James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni]

Yeah, but be careful as a woman what you demand of a man

I demand that he be a man

But you can't say you demand it; you have to suggest it

Well, that's your ego that demands. No, I demand it. Now, you deal with that