[Verse 1]
There's a mind that moves like weather, never quite the same,
A thousand open windows and a hunger hard to name,
Precise in what it notices, restless in its reach,
Holding so much knowledge just beneath the speech,
They see the steady surface, the measured way you stand,
They don't see all the tides you hold inside one hand

[PreChorus]
But the depth in you is not a flaw to fix or hide,
It's the whole ocean living where they see the tide

[Chorus]
Richard, you were written by the stars and the turning earth,
Every question that you carry is a measure of your worth,
The cosmos drew you careful, with a complicated hand,
You are more than what they see, you are more than what they planned

[Verse 2]
You love like something sheltered, like a fire kept inside,
Tender where it matters, protective as the tide,
You feel the unspoken in a room before it's said,
You carry others gently while you do it all ahead,
And still the old familiar ache of wondering if you're seen,
As if you need to earn the ground on which you've always been

[PreChorus]
But love was never something you were meant to prove again,
You were made to give it freely and receive it just the same

[Chorus]
Richard, you were written by the stars and the turning earth,
Every question that you carry is a measure of your worth,
The cosmos drew you careful, with a complicated hand,
You are more than what they see, you are more than what they planned

[Verse 3]
There's a wound around the asking, around taking up your space,
A quiet inner reckoning that follows every place,
You've worked to prove the working, pushed when rest would serve you more,
But presence is its own kind of power, you don't have to keep the score,
The effort that you've given is already writ in stone,
And the strength it took to carry on is yours and yours alone

[PreChorus]
Every scar became a lantern, every hollow filled with light,
What you thought was breaking open was just making you more right

[Chorus]
Richard, you were written by the stars and the turning earth,
Every question that you carry is a measure of your worth,
The cosmos drew you careful, with a complicated hand,
You are more than what they see, you are more than what they planned

[Verse 4]
There is something in you building that the world is waiting for,
A wisdom made of living, of the weight you chose to bore,
Your mind sees far horizons where most people see a wall,
And you help the ones around you find the meaning in it all,
So let the dreamer and the thinker finally rest as one,
You were always whole enough — you were enough before you'd begun

[PreChorus]
The path ahead is lit by all the roads that made you whole,
And the universe has always kept its compass on your soul

[Bridge]
You don't have to be the answer to be worthy of the grace,
You were never meant to justify the room you choose to take,
Let the version of you resting be as real as all the rest,
You are guided, you are rooted, you are already blessed

[Outro]
Richard, the stars still hold your name inside their oldest light,
You are seen, you are enough, you were always worth the night