Lighting a candle for my loved one’s wherever I travelled (note the 2 celebs in the background)

‘DÉJÀ VU’

After the lowest time of my life,  I planned a journey to face my emotions, my beliefs and to challenge what meaning there could still be within life. This was definitely ‘Life’s emotional journey’ for me.

This emotional journey was to  look at life and face challenging situations.  Part of this journey took me to a Tibetan monastery (in Scotland and the largest in Europe), to have time to be silent, to think, meditate, reflect.  A seminar was being held there over a few days to look at  Buddhism and Mindfulness. I knew very little about the Buddhist way of life, or how to think outside the world I grew up in, but maybe this study period  could help me understand how they deal with death, inconsolable grief, how to find an answer in this mind mayhem I was in.  My beautiful wife had just passed over, my mother 5 months earlier, both from cancer and taken too early from this life.   I needed help, advice, a direction, some way to manage this pain and someone to help show me a meaning for all this.

During this saddest and most lonely time of my life, something extraordinary happened.    It affected me and changed the path of my life, forever.

The idea for the song’Deja Vu’ was conceived after just returning from this Buddhist monastery.

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 Buddhist monastery

The driveway in to the monastery grounds

‘Déjà Vu’

©  music & lyrics by

Ian Martyn

You, you come in to my life just like a prayer
You showed me other ways that I could care
And led me to a life that we could share
With just us there

Why do you understand me like you seem to do
You read me like you know that I’m not new
You take me to a place where we both knew
Déjà vu

Teach me all the things you say I need to know
And take the seeds of love to plant and sow
Then watch our lonely souls begin to grow
And start to glow

And then I felt you in my heart once again
You rose up from I don’t know where or when
You made me feel like I became a man
Just like then

Now I feel the tides of change come to my door
You see me like you used to see before
And now I know the time is right for more
Encore

Take my hand along this path again with you
Let’s do the things that only we could do
And love me like you say that you used to
Just us two

I , I think about you every single day
It must be ‘cos it’s meant to be this way
There’s nothing left that words can ever say
And so I pray

copyright music & lyrics

by Ian Martyn

Thank you to the following artists for their very kind permission to use their artwork

for the intro and verses www.rassouili.com

for the saxophone solos www.josephinewall.co.uk