[Verse 1]
He weighs every word before it leaves his lips,
Finds beauty in the balance, in the careful eclipse,
A mind that turns ideas like stones in a stream,
Always searching for the truth behind the seam,
They see the easy smile, they miss the tide below,
All those fathoms running deep where the still waters go

[PreChorus]
He carries what he feels in a room no one can find,
A whole ocean locked away at the back of his mind

[Chorus]
John, you are more than what the surface shows,
A quiet kind of fire that nobody knows,
You were written in the balance, in the light and the deep,
John, you are the promise that the cosmos chose to keep

[Verse 2]
He loves like something ancient, like a long-held vow,
He gives before he's asked and he doesn't know how,
There's a warmth behind the armor, behind the careful grace,
A tenderness he tucks away in some interior place,
He's rebuilt more than one thing from the bones of what burned,
And every scar he carries is a lesson he earned

[PreChorus]
He's looking for a world where connection runs true,
Where the peace that he gives is the peace that comes through

[Chorus]
John, you are more than what the surface shows,
A quiet kind of fire that nobody knows,
You were written in the balance, in the light and the deep,
John, you are the promise that the cosmos chose to keep

[Verse 3]
He questions what is real when the noise fills the room,
A mind that refuses to accept what isn't true,
He's searched through the shadows just to find what remains,
And found the rarest gold at the bottom of his pain,
He protects the ones he loves with a lion's steady roar,
While the moon inside his chest keeps a secret score

[PreChorus]
The world has called it restless, but they've missed the mark,
That hunger is a compass pointing home through the dark

[Chorus]
John, you are more than what the surface shows,
A quiet kind of fire that nobody knows,
You were written in the balance, in the light and the deep,
John, you are the promise that the cosmos chose to keep

[Verse 4]
He doesn't need to prove what was always already there,
The sky was mapped around him with extraordinary care,
His worth is not a trophy to be won or to be shown,
It's the root beneath the stillness, it's the marrow of the bone,
He's allowed to take up space, he's allowed to let it land,
Everything he's carried was always part of the plan

[PreChorus]
He was never meant to shrink for a world that couldn't see,
The depth of who he is and who he was born to be

[Chorus]
John, you are more than what the surface shows,
A quiet kind of fire that nobody knows,
You were written in the balance, in the light and the deep,
John, you are the promise that the cosmos chose to keep

[Bridge]
The universe did not create you by mistake,
Every layer that you've lived was never yours to escape,
You are held inside a story written longer than your years,
And the man you are right now is worth every single tear

[Outro]
So rest inside the truth that has always been your own,
John, you were never lost, you were always coming home