Deja Vu (Anemoia Remix)
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⋆ Genre: Alternative Rock
⋆ Producing Credits: Slow Rabbit, martin, "hitman" bang
⋆ Writing/Composing Credits: "hitman" bang, Slow Rabbit, martin, Supreme Boi, Ryan Lawrie, Moa 'Cazzi Opeia' Carlebecker (Sunshine), Ellen Berg (Sunshine), JAMES, SCORE (13), Megatone (13)
NOTE: This remix is inspired by the concept of “anemoia,” a term coined to describe nostalgia for a time or place one has never personally experienced. It captures a sense of longing or wistfulness for a past that exists outside one’s own lived experience.
ABOUT/MEANING: “Deja Vu” captures the overwhelming familiarity of encountering someone connected to a promise made long ago. After travelling through uncertainty, separation and change, the boy recognises “you” almost instinctively. The feeling resembles déjà vu: something happening in the present carries the unmistakable sense that it has been experienced - or perhaps promised - before.
That recognition draws him back towards the “start line,” reconnecting the present with the dreams and promises that once gave his journey direction. Returning to the beginning does not mean undoing everything that has happened since. Instead, the boy discovers that the connection he thought he had lost may still exist beneath all that distance and time. What once belonged to the past begins pointing towards the future again: the promise is not simply something to remember, but something that might still be fulfilled.
Within minisode 3: TOMORROW, “Deja Vu” therefore turns memory into a source of direction. After years in which the boys have grown, changed and sometimes lost their way, the boy at the centre of the story recognises someone he had already promised to find again. The past does not pull him backwards; remembering “you” gives him renewed certainty about where he wants to go next.
LYRICS - ENGLISH TRANSLATION (translations by @translatingTXT)
I ran away countless times
Just out of fear
CONNECTION: This recalls “Run Away,” where the boy responds to an overwhelming reality by asking “you” to escape with him into a magical world. “Deja Vu” looks back on that impulse from a different perspective: after repeatedly running from fear and losing his way, he now turns back towards the person and promise he left waiting behind.
Leaving you waiting at the start line
CONNECTION: “Magic Island” describes the place connected to the boys’ promise as “our start line / our star line,” asking them not to forget the night or the place they shared beneath the stars. “Deja Vu” returns to that imagery after years of separation: while the boy repeatedly ran away and wandered from his path, “you” remained connected to the promise waiting at the beginning.
The morse code amidst the ruins
CONNECTION: Morse code has been part of TXT's imagery since their debut. Their pre-debut introduction films contained coded words including “Dreaming,” “Tomorrow,” “Secret,” “Hope,” “Promise” and “Clue,” while the opening of “CROWN” spells its title in Morse code. Most significantly, the seven-second interlude immediately preceding “Deja Vu” on minisode 3: TOMORROW encodes “TOMORROW.” Finding Morse code “amidst the ruins” therefore evokes the rediscovery of a message that has been present since the beginning - one that now points the boy towards his promised future.
The “ruins” recall “Can't You See Me?,” where the friendship's “eternal promise” appears to collapse as their memories “turn into ruins” and ashes. “Deja Vu” returns to those ruins years later, but discovers that the promise itself has survived within them. What once symbolised the apparent destruction of their connection becomes the place from which that connection can be rediscovered.
An old promise, promise
CONNECTION: The promise to reunite reaches back to the beginning of TXT's story. In the “Nap of a Star” music video, the boys promise one another, “Even if we part ways, let's meet here again.” “Deja Vu” revisits that promise after the separation, conflict and wandering that followed, transforming something established near the beginning of their story into a source of direction for the future.
Not knowing the reason for my tears, my anemoia
EXPLANATION: Anemoia refers to nostalgia or longing for a time one has never personally experienced. Within “Deja Vu,” the word strengthens the strange overlap between memory and unfamiliarity: the boy feels an emotional connection to something that seems simultaneously distant and deeply familiar, much like the sensation of déjà vu itself.
You and I, under the starlit promise
CONNECTION: This closely echoes “Can’t You See Me?,” where the boys remember how “that eternal promise was like magic” and their “scintilla bloomed underneath the starlight.” In that song, the promise appears to collapse as their memories turn to ashes and ruins; “Deja Vu” returns to the same combination of promise and starlight as the boy begins to rediscover the connection he thought had been lost.
In front of our dust-piled crowns
CONNECTION: The crowns recall “CROWN,” the beginning of TXT’s musical story, where meeting “you” transforms the horns that made the boy feel different into a crown. Describing them here as “dust-piled” suggests something once precious that has been left behind during the years of separation and wandering. Standing before them again reinforces the sense that the boy has returned to something connected to the beginning of his journey - not to remain in the past, but to recover what he had lost there.
Once again, like the dream carved in my soul
Be my eternity, call my name
CONNECTION: This directly echoes “Run Away”: “Be my eternity / Please call my name.” Years later, “Deja Vu” repeats the same plea as the boy recognises “you” again, reconnecting the present reunion he is pursuing with the relationship he once hoped could become his “eternity.”
I remember the answer I finally found
My future is you
Say my name
I'll hug you tight, as promised on the first day
Like deja vu
You're like deja vu
Say it (Say it), say it (Say it)
Say it, say it louder
In the flaming rain that's burning me
Within that long, eternal journey
CONNECTION: “Flaming rain” directly recalls “Eternally,” which remembers “that day when flaming rain came down” amid its fragmented, nightmarish imagery. “Deja Vu” brings that image of pain and confusion into the “long, eternal journey” the boy has travelled before finding his way back towards “you.”
The sadness we shared is my clarity
By your tears
Oh, even when I'm falling, you're all I need
CONNECTION: This echoes “LO$ER=LO♡ER,” where the boy declares, “If I'm with you, even a fall is beautiful.” Across TXT's story, falling repeatedly accompanies moments of uncertainty and loss of control; here, even after everything that has happened, the boy once again places his trust in “you” while falling.
Amid all the ruins, our place of promise
The land of rest, the return of eternity
CONNECTION: Eternity has long represented the boy's hope that his connection with “you” could endure, most explicitly in “Run Away”: “Be my eternity.” That belief was later tested by the conflict and separation of The Dream Chapter: ETERNITY. Describing their reunion as the “return of eternity” therefore suggests the recovery of a bond the boy once feared had been lost.
You're the one that waited for me
I remember the answer I finally found
My future is you
Say my name
I'll hug you tight, as promised on the first day
Like deja vu
You're like deja vu
Say it (Say it), say it (Say it)
Say it, say it louder
I promise you, over and over
My future is you
Under the veil of light
I'll hold you tight, who's shining like a bride
Like deja vu
You're like deja vu
Say it (Say it), say it (Say it)
Say it, say it louder
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