Déjà Vu

I always thought this song was one of Maiden's worst, at least from their glory era, in terms of lyrics. If it's supposed to say anything about the phenomenon of deja vu, well it sounds like a naive child's first encounter with the experience. That's not to say capturing childlike wonder is bad, but this is nothing like that - just very prosaic and uninteresting. Barely even rhymes, and while rhyming isn't always necessary, the worst part is they do attempt one rhyme - "faces" and "places" - a scheme they totally ignore later ("conversation" and "someone" should rhyme). The end result is it just feels like a half-assed mess.

If they wrote a similar song, let's say about the phenomenon of losing blood circulation to your leg, it would go something like:

When you get out of bed But now you can't, instead you fall Are your legs really there?

You cannot feel them But you see they're still there Can you be sure?

Feels like there's no legs at all! Feels like there's no legs at all! Feels like there's no legs at all! Feels like there's no legs at all!