Key: G major
Verse 1
G
A
C
G
A
C
G
So you're
G
A
And you're finally over first
Cm
G
semester shock.
D
Em
G
Now the holidays are approaching,
A
Cm
so it's back to your old town.
G
C
Back to solid ground, your family,
Dsus4
G
your rock.
Yeah, there's nothing like heading
A
C
homeward to clear the mental fog.
A
Cm
G
your memory never blur.
D
Em
G
So you're thinking about your parents,
your sister
G
C
They're frozen in your head
G
C
Cause there's a footprint you left there,
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Baug
Em
indelible and deep.
Asus4
Am
G
It's the core of your identity,
A
C
the principles you keep.
Csus2
G
Csus2
Your footprint, your history,
C
Cm
Baug
Em
it's who you are.
D
G
So you run to hug your parents, and
Am
Cm
Beth calls you a geek.
Cm
Am
D
his son, we had to put him down
G
A
C
G
A
Am
G
last week.
A
Am
So you find yourself back at college, kinda shaken,
C
G
but okay, and you're quickly swept
A
Cm
G
up again by freshman year.
D
Em
There's your roommate who hogs the bathroom,
G
A
Cm
G
a new pa per due each day, and your part -time
C
Dsus4
job as a campus store cashier.
G
Dsus4
G
Then it's suddenly spring
A
Am
vacation and it's home
C
G
you go once more and it's hard to believe
A
Cm
G
the months have come and gone.
D
Em
D
G
You see that familiar driveway and you
A
Cm
open that front door with that
G
C
Dsus4
overwhelming feeling coming on.
D
G
C
There's a footprint you left
Em
Am
G
It's your constant, your anchor,
A
Dsus4
unbendable like steel.
D
G
C
Your footprint, your history,
Baug
Em
it's who you are.
Am
G
And the place looks so inviting.
C
Cm
It's everything you'd hoped.
A
Cm
Am
Your mom says, dear,
D
G
A
C
Beth and her boyfriend eloped.
G
C
G
You like to think you're enlightened.
Dsus4
A
Adim
and cool.
Cm
Baug
Sure, things will change while
A
Adim
Am
Dsus4
G
But you worry the foundation
Am
C
Cm
you've been rooted to so long
G
Cm
Is somehow less dependable,
C
A
Dsus4
is suddenly less strong.
D
Csus2
G
At least you're not like a tadpole,
G
A
his mom unloads.
Adim
Cm
G
Baug
who never gets to know
Asus4
A
Am
G
Yeah, at least you're not like that.
No,
Csus2
C
A
Dsus4
you still got your footprint on that threadbare
G
Adim
G
welcome mat and a place to
Dsus4
D
Dsus4
hang your hat.
G
A
So your life hums along at college and
C
G
your worries slowly dim.
G
Em
You hear your mom has a
A
Cm
and your bedroom's now a gym.
Bel
junior classes
C
G
disappear before your eyes.
And you're thinking about a
A
Cm
life beyond these doors.
G
Em
Your old roommate is
G
A
Your latest paper won a prize.
Cm
G
C
You now manage all the col
D
G
C
Still there's a footprint you cling to,
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Baug
Em
it's something you can't shake.
Am
G
A need that won't diminish,
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Dsus4
a bond that will not break .
D
G
C
Your footprint, your history,
Cm
Baug
Em
it's who you are.
Am
G
And home's a place of comfort,
Cm
Dsus4
G
A
Then over din ner with your parents,
Am
G
A
G
they tell you they're getting divorced.
C
Csus2
G
Then you have a calm revelation,
C
G
A
there as your world seems to blow up in your face.
Adim
Cm
G
Baug
You see that footprints don't
Em
Asus4
A
belong in just one place.
Am
G
They're in the life you've led,
C
A
but they're not firmly rooted.
Dsus4
G
Adim
They will mul tiply and spread
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Csus2
Yes, your footprint goes with you.
C
Baug
It's something you don't lose.
Em
Am
G
From the family you were born with
Dsus4
G
C
Your footprint, your history,
Baug
Em
Asus4
it's who you are
Outro 1
Your footprint is right where you stand.
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A
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