I'm translating the song “はだしの軌跡” from **Final Fantasy X-2: Vocal Collection -
Rikku**.

> 気分まかせの足跡つけて新しい地図 描こう

I’m translating this lyric from right to left, reading as “Let’s draw a new
map by...” 気分まかせの足跡つけて seems to mean something about making footprints of some
kind. まかせ appears to either be the stem form of 任せる or act like a suffix to
気分, but I don't know what the ‘no’ particle is for if anything.
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translation particle-の phrases song-lyrics
Understanding 気分任せの足跡
Here まかせ seems to act as the suffix meaning "leave it up to someone or
something else". In this case it's being applied to 気分 (the feeling / mood).
Giving 気分まかせ a meaning of "left up to the feeling / mood".

As for the の particle, it's being used in the traditional sense to connect and
modify 足跡 (footprints) using 気分まかせ. So with this の particle we get 気分まかせの足跡
meaning something like "the feeling / mood's footprints", "the footprints
based on the mood", or etc.

Also for extra clarification, 足跡つけて (足跡をつける) means to "leave behind / make
footprints".

So altogether reading from left to right we have something like:

> 気分まかせの足跡つけて新しい地図描こう
>
> Leaving behind footprints based on the mood, let's draw a new map

Or reading from right to left

> Let's draw a new map using the footprints left behind by the mood.
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