Jack Dawkins, Jason Chu - Walking In My Footsteps 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 but back then I was Drewsy Bluesy

Summertime pool rat, skin always chlorinated
Reflected so many parts of me incorporated
So go with the flow like my life force was corrugated
Accidental happiness, no joy formulated

My biggest strength was lack of fear
Too young to know better
My whole life ahead, green lights
I was a go getter
Do good and be good were the guidelines
So I flowed better
Love the comfort but I'm itching to move on like an old sweater

Childhood reflections trapped in the waves
Craving wisdom I had but deployed at the wrong age
A time so distant but never more relevant
Secret codex to defining my elements

Hot summer light's feelin like a sauna
Drinkin til late at night, I'll be gone by tomorra but
You in my aura, your flora is in my garments
If I'm shinin in the city yOU taught me the fluorescence
Not a city boy - but I came up hot
Grew up in cul-de-sacs and not blocks
Felt Lost, hadda escape, plotted a route
Either get up, get out, or get caught
yea
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 and crunchy leaves seem so necessary
Land of hallowed halls and bloodlines, hereditary
Origin of my diffidence, fear of ordinary

The past and the present start to pair up
Nostalgia swallows me, like I’m trapped in a bear hug
Memories so vivid it’s like i’m walking on a movie set
Present now, but in the past I only used future tense

So worried about what would be, 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 the medication?

Sometimes I dream that I’ll be asked back to campus
Give me fresh minds and I’ll have a canvas
Tell every student to challenge their own perceptions
Admission is cool, but it has nothing on self-acceptance

Walkin 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, all 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 bein here reveals the spIne of My Mindset
Bein me is really the product of my environment
I'm talkin Damini, Useff, Sheel, Ryan and Brett
Homies I carry I ain't bangin but they in my blood
Every beat and every breath I breathe it's not just mine it's 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