Where I Started

This track comes from the Lowcountry marshes where Aaron found wisdom knee-deep in pluff mud. It tackles Going back to the physical place where it all started and seeing it through the eyes of who he is now. The distance between then and now measured not in miles but in growth.. The lyrics get specific — "The house looks smaller now, or maybe I've just grown" — because personal tracks on Majik's are personal for real, not performatively. The soul production matches the energy of the confession. It hits reflective and grateful, in that order. Every personal track in the catalogue comes from a real moment, a real feeling, a real person. This one is no exception.

[verse 1] Drove back to the spot where I packed my bags at dawn The house looks smaller now, or maybe I've just grown The front steps where I sat and signed my Navy papers clean Look like they belong to someone else's dream But these are mine, these steps, this crack, this sidewalk tree This is where the whole thing started, this is ground zero me No title, no technology, no platform, no brand Just a kid with nothing but tomorrow in his hand [chorus] Look at where I started, look at where I stand The distance in between is everything I am Not the miles, not the years, not the titles on the wall But the getting up, the staying up, the refusing to fall Look at where I started, barely had a name Now they call me OG Unicorn, but the kid's still the same Under everything I've built, under everything I've earned Is the ground where I started and the fire that burned [verse 2] The recruiting office is a smoothie shop now The library where I studied is still standing, and somehow It looks like it's been waiting for this version of me To walk in, find the corner desk, and let the memories Flood back like a tide I can't control The books about the Navy, the pamphlets that I stole Because they were free, like everything I had Free time, free will, free falling from a launching pad [chorus] Look at where I started, look at where I stand The distance in between is everything I am Not the miles, not the years, not the titles on the wall But the getting up, the staying up, the refusing to fall [bridge] I know the motivational speakers say this stuff on stage But I'm saying it in a song from the actual page Of a life that started here, on this block, on this street With no connections, no advantages, just two working feet And a brain that wouldn't quit and a heart too dumb to know That the odds were stacked so high they shouldn't let me go But they did, and here I am [verse 3] So I sit here on the steps one more time before I leave And I tell the kid who's still here everything I believe You're going to make it, kid, it's messy but it's real Full circle from the starting point, and everything you feel Right now is fuel [outro] Where I started Where I'm standing Same person Different altitude Same heart Bigger wings