[Verse 1]
There's a fire in the way you move through this world,
Like an arrow already mid-flight when it's hurled,
You see further than most, but you carry it quiet,
A mind full of questions too wide to keep silent,
You've built what you need with your hands and your will,
But the hunger for meaning is burning there still

[PreChorus]
They see the calm, they don't see the tide,
All those fathoms of ocean you carry inside

[Chorus]
The cosmos wrote you carefully, with ink that never fades,
Nicholas, you are the sum of every fire that ever blazed,
You don't need to prove the depth of everything you are,
You were written in the dark and you became a guiding star

[Verse 2]
You love like it costs you and still you give more,
You've stood at the edge of yourself and still walked through the door,
There's a wound in the place where your worth should have lived,
Where the voices were silent when they should have said: you're enough as you give,
But every scar learned to carry the weight it was handed,
And every wall that you built just proves how deeply you've landed

[PreChorus]
They see the armor, they don't see the ache,
The sacred and steady that nothing can break

[Chorus]
The cosmos wrote you carefully, with ink that never fades,
Nicholas, you are the sum of every fire that ever blazed,
You don't need to prove the depth of everything you are,
You were written in the dark and you became a guiding star

[Verse 3]
You crave what is real, what is rooted and true,
A love that goes under the surface with you,
You've weighed every word before letting it fall,
And felt the sharp silence of not being heard at all,
But your voice is a current that carves its own way,
And the world leans toward people who have something to say

[PreChorus]
They see the seeker, they don't see the cost,
Of how many times you found light when you thought you were lost

[Chorus]
The cosmos wrote you carefully, with ink that never fades,
Nicholas, you are the sum of every fire that ever blazed,
You don't need to prove the depth of everything you are,
You were written in the dark and you became a guiding star

[Verse 4]
There's a version of you that the world hasn't named,
That doesn't need applause and isn't chasing acclaim,
That walks at the edge where the old stories end,
Where the self you've outgrown finally learns how to bend,
You were built for the deep and the distant and true,
The universe didn't make many like you

[PreChorus]
They see the surface, they don't see the vow,
The ancient and steady of then becoming now

[Chorus]
The cosmos wrote you carefully, with ink that never fades,
Nicholas, you are the sum of every fire that ever blazed,
You don't need to prove the depth of everything you are,
You were written in the dark and you became a guiding star

[Bridge]
You are not the weight of every unfinished thing,
You are the root and the arrow and the note that rings,
You were held before you knew you needed holding here,
The sky has always known your name and holds it clear

[Outro]
So rest in what you are, not what you've had to be,
Nicholas, you are exactly where the light begins to see,
The stars don't second-guess the dark that helped them burn,
And neither should you