Jack Dawkins - Walking In My Footsteps (feat. Jason Chu)

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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

Written by:
DREW DAVIS, JASON CHU

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