[Verse 1]
There's a mind that moves like weather, never still,
A thousand open windows, every thought a thrill,
But underneath the current, past the words you say,
There's a mountain holding vigil at the end of the day,
You've built yourself in silence, stone by careful stone,
A world of warmth inside you that you've carried alone

[PreChorus]
They see the easy laughter, they don't see the weight,
The one who holds the lantern, standing at the gate

[Chorus]
Joel, you are deeper than the words you find,
A twin flame and a bedrock, fire and a spine,
The sky wrote you carefully, with ink that holds,
You are more than what you carry, more than what you're told

[Verse 2]
You love like something ancient, slow and sure and true,
A devotion built like shelter, steady all the way through,
You read the unspoken, feel the shift before it breaks,
You know what lives beneath the surface, know what silence makes,
But the one you rarely tend to is the one inside your chest,
The one who gave and gave and never asked to rest

[PreChorus]
The tide is not a weakness, it's the proof of what remains,
Every depth you've swallowed whole has turned to something gained

[Chorus]
Joel, you are deeper than the words you find,
A twin flame and a bedrock, fire and a spine,
The sky wrote you carefully, with ink that holds,
You are more than what you carry, more than what you're told

[Verse 3]
There's a rebel in your structure, something that won't bend,
A vision past the blueprint, a beginning in the end,
You've questioned every ceiling that was handed to you whole,
Reformed the walls around you just by following your soul,
And when the dreams got blurry and the path felt hard to see,
You found your way by feeling what you knew that you could be

[PreChorus]
You're not lost when you are searching, that's the compass doing its work,
Every question that you've carried is a lantern in the dark

[Chorus]
Joel, you are deeper than the words you find,
A twin flame and a bedrock, fire and a spine,
The sky wrote you carefully, with ink that holds,
You are more than what you carry, more than what you're told

[Verse 4]
You've stood inside the shadow without turning from the flame,
You've walked through transformation, never twice the same,
The roots you've planted quietly go further than you know,
And the ones who stand beside you, they're the garden that you grow,
You don't need to earn the morning, you don't need to prove the light,
You were written into something vast, and you were written right

[PreChorus]
The universe was patient with the shape of who you are,
It took its time, it knew the cost, it carved you like a star

[Bridge]
You are not the weight of every war you've had to hold,
You are not the sum of silence or the things you weren't told,
There's a home inside you waiting at the center of the storm,
And every scar you carry is the proof you kept you warm

[Outro]
Joel, the cosmos doesn't make mistakes,
You are every quiet choice and every risk it takes,
Rest now, you are rooted, you are whole, you are enough,
You were always, always more than almost wasn't enough