Deja View

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"**Deja View**" is an October Noir song included on their fourth album *Letters to Existence*, released in 2023. The song got synth textures and ambient guitar on top with cathedral vocals. The haunting tones throughout this song may make them feel of being in a castle according to a reviewer codenamed Concrete Spew. The presence of acoustic-like tonals produced by keyboards arguably promotes the Halloween-y feel to the song.

"Deja View" is about repeatedly driving in the darkness until they lose the love. Due to what the lyrics is about, the song is also titled "Forever Drive". "Deja View" is so-titled due to the talk of repeating an action (that is, driving, which requires viewing the road ahead in the darkness of night) leading to the same effect (that is, progressively decreasing in love), with inspiration for the title and the phrase said in the lyrics being the near-homophone of déjà vu.

As "Forever Haunt" is the previous track, had this song been titled "Forever Drive", it would've been second straight track in which the first word of the song is the same word—'Forever', followed by a five-letter word. It's extremely rare that an album contains consecutive tracks whose titles comprise the same word followed by the word with same number of letters. Although it would be much more common of being parts of the song series, which have same exact titles that are distinguished by part numbers or Roman numerals, e.g. "Suicide Note, Pt. 1" and "Suicide Note, Pt. 2" on Pantera album *The Great Southern Trendkill*.

## Lyrics

Let's take a midnight ride

a full moon night

Mid-Summer scenic route

Your hand on top of mine

shifting gears

Who cares what the night includes

Share your thoughts and mind

it's all so clear

We can take the gas

and God can steer

Cool summer air

and leather seats

Oh, now baby, this is all I need to breathe

All I've ever known is inside you

Under scars where the blood runs deep

Solace in our own deja view

Heartbeats stain memories

Oh, I don't wanna go down

Oh, another winding road now

Girl, I don't wanna love nobody but you

on this forever drive

I think I'd rather die

I don't wanna love nobody else

I'll trace your jaw

Caress your cheek

A potent reveled dream

Have you ever craved someone

for their touch or voice?

A cocktail of gasoline

Let's go round and round

up, down, and steep

Take it fast or slow until we sleep

When you love someone

how can you set them free?

Oh, now baby, that'll never work for me

All I've ever known is inside you

Under scars where the blood runs deep

Solace in our own deja view

Heartbeats stain memories

Oh, I don't wanna go down

Oh, another winding road now

Girl, I don't wanna love nobody but you

on this forever drive

I think I'd rather die

I don't wanna love nobody else

## Personnel

* **Tom Noir** – vocals, bass, writing, engineering, mixing, mastering, production
* Trey Ozinga – guitar
* Tyler Fleming – drums
* Doug Lane – keyboards, piano

1. "The Haunting"
2. "Volatile"
3. "Trinity"
4. "Alpha Omega"
5. "Exhume"
6. "Silicon"
7. "Deep Woods"
8. "Vertebra Seraphim"
9. "Feel Heart Love"
10. "Beautifool"

1. "Tombstones"
2. "Burn"
3. "Spellbound"
4. "Little Drummer Boy"
5. "Symmetry"
6. "Black Light"
7. "Lavender"
8. "The Veil"
9. "Her Dark Embrace"
10. "Cauterize"

1. "Fate"
2. "Windows"
3. "Reverence (Make You Love)"
4. "Effigy"
5. "Wine"
6. "Persephone"
7. "Serendipity"
8. "Wanderlust"
9. "Cradle the Monster"
10. "Wisteria"
11. "Sistinas"
12. "Proverbs"
13. "Goodbye Black Bird"
 ***Letters to Existence***1. "Spring"
2. "Endless Lonely"
3. "A Halo Hung from Horns"
4. "Forever Haunt"
5. "**Deja View**"
6. "Summer to Autumn"
7. "Clench"
8. "Tourniquet"
9. "For Honor"
10. "Flash Paper Matches"
11. "She's Gone"
12. "Winter"

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* "Wicked Game"
* "Race War"
* "Cry Little Sister"
* "Love You to Death"
* "Crimson and Clover"
* "Nights in White Satin"