Walking In My Footsteps ft. Jason Chu Lyrics

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My life loosely based on doodles strewn on loose leaf

If you truly knew me you'd know my childhood runs through me

You can call me Jack back then I was Drewsy Bluesy

Summertime pool rat, my skin was chlorinated

Reflected so many parts of me all incorporated

So go with the flow like my life force was corrugated

Accidental happiness, never joy formulated

My biggest strength was lack of fear

Too young to know better

My whole life ahead, green lights

Go getter

Do good and be good were the guidelines

I flowed better

Love the comfort but I'm itching like an old sweater

Childhood reflections trapped in the waves

Craving wisdom I had but deployed at the wrong age

Time so distant but never more relevant

Secret codex to defining all of my elements

Hot summer light's feeling like a sauna

Drinkin til late at night, I'll be gone by tomorrow but

You in my aura, your flora is in my garments

If I'm shining in the city you taught me fluorescence

Not a city boy - but I came up hot

Grew up in cul-de-sacs and not blocks

Felt Lost, had to escape, plotted a route

Either get up, get out, or get caught

Yeah

That's what it felt like anyway

I knew Wilmington Delaware wasn't the place I had to stay

Stray dog, make art, same song, took long, took heart, got strong, I came home

Parked the car by the yard, near the cemetery

Autumn air, crunchy leaves seem so necessary

Land of hallowed halls, bloodlines, hereditary

Origin of my diffidence, fear of ordinary

The past and the present get together start to pair up

Nostalgia swallows me, like I'm trapped in a bear hug

Memories so vivid like i'm walking on a movie set

Present now, but in the past I only used the future tense

So worried about what would be or what could happen

That I missed my whole senior year, no second-half action

Do I suffer from depression or deluded expectation

What would have happened if I skipped that medication?

Sometimes I dream that I'll be asked back to campus

Give me fresh minds, and I'll have my damn canvas

Tell every student to challenge their own perceptions

Admissions is cool, but it has nothing on self-acceptance

Walking around the campus like a lonely ghost

Why these roads and alleyways still hold me close

Why no breakfast as dope as momma's cinnamon toast

Guess the roots still hold despite the newer growth

I'm a Hockessin boy, 302, that's me

Tatted on the neck on my left where my heart beats, cut me

I bleed blue and gold that's UD, spent time there even if we didn't go university

Universally, all cultures recognize

Our ties to the ground and the land of our lives

Where ghosts of ancestors

And past selves reside

Time travelin my kicks resemble Marty McFlys

I'm not wise yet

But being here reveals the spIne of My Mindset

Bein me is really the product of my environment

I'm talking Damini, Useff, Sheel, Ryan and Brett

Homies I carry I ain't banging but they in my blood

Evry beat and every breath I breath it's not just mine its ours

Walkin through the streets, every intersection etched in my body

I realized this is the place that taught me what it means - to love