Second guessing the first step/
first breath of my second wind on my third set/
No assured bets, my courage incurred sweat/
with self-doubt on the route, I heard it and swerved left/
So I face the chase and I paint between spaces of embraced mistakes/
Because a dream’s worth diving in feet first, colliding with the bottom and designing your rebirth/
And we search for that first love/
one to share with and bare the best and the worst of/
Nursed up from the first heartbreak/
thoughts race on the late night/
Fade from a daily to a maybe to a grave site/
I paid twice for choosing to point blame/
Defense mechanism we use to avoid pain/
but now I soak in it/
Knowing the feeling we’re heartbroken is the only moment that’s serving to open it

[Chorus – Strictly Steele & Vaishnavi]
I’m searching, and I’m finding/
that you’ll never know, you just have to grow/
I’m searching, and I’m finding/
that you’ll never know, you just have to grow/

One time for the first generation/ raised within the west by the words of the ancients/
I came from both, framed them close/ and combined the first language with slang we spoke/
My folks arrived in ’79 with thoughts to set ahead of me a better design/
First world telling me I’m to shed and refine the identity to settle me although I know I’d never be mine/
So I’m feeling caught in-between the heart and the margin
Regarded and scene as too much or not enough/
so to trust your struggle with love is a must/
Break the cuffs and you brush by who doesn’t adjust/
not bad for some immigrants/
Labeled illegitimate but still made a seat at the table to fit us in/
Son of the working class, with no concern of whether first or last and made a way on the uncertain path/

[Chorus]

Still searching through peeled curtains/
we feel first and try to build with a will urgent/
But find that we shine if the mind is combining with heart/
Where pride will depart, no hiding the thought that we may never know/
So we try to hold on the control but it shows when we let it go
We have to grow, adapt whether fast of slow/
and master goals when I own the path I roll

[Chorus]