Lyrics Walking In My Footsteps - Jason Chu , Jack Dawkins

Yeah
Let's take a walk
Yeah

Trying to edit less, no need to proofread
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, 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 is never more relevant
Secret codex to defining all of my elements

Oh, yeah
I was back home with my parents, walking around town and
You know I thought

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 (right)
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

Talk to 'em
That's a crazy flashback
I was on my college campus last fall and um

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
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? (Damn)

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, it's got 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? (Yeah)
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 traveling, my kicks resemble Marty McFlys
(I'm not wise yet)

But being here reveals the spine of my mindset
Being 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
Every beat and every breath I breathe, it's not just mine it's ours
Walking through the streets, every intersection etched in my body
I realized this is the place that taught me what it means to love