[Verse 1]
A mind that never settles, always chasing the next light,
Two voices in one chest, both of them right,
He reads a room before he crosses through the door,
Then wonders why the surface never shows what's at his core,
The world sees wit and warmth and all the things he gives away,
They don't see the tides he wrestles with at the end of the day,

[PreChorus]
But every current running through him is a gift he's yet to name,
He was written by the sky and every star knows why he came,

[Chorus]
Dave, you are the steady ground and the restless sea,
A question and an answer living wild and free,
The cosmos carved your edges with a careful hand,
Dave, you are exactly who you're meant to be, and,

[Verse 2]
He thinks in constellations, feels in stone and root,
A hunger for the meaning, for the harvest and the fruit,
He's loyal like the bedrock, like the slow and ancient deep,
He holds the ones he loves with a tenderness they'll keep,
But somewhere deep inside him lives a wound he rarely shows,
A boy who worked so hard, wondering if anyone knows,

[PreChorus]
That the effort was the legacy, the love was in the building,
That the heart behind the doing was already worth the living,

[Chorus]
Dave, you are the steady ground and the restless sea,
A question and an answer living wild and free,
The cosmos carved your edges with a careful hand,
Dave, you are exactly who you're meant to be, and,

[Verse 3]
He loves like someone tending to a fire through the cold,
Protective, warm, and quiet, like a story left untold,
He'd give before you ask him, hold the space before you fall,
Build the kind of home that wraps around you like a shawl,
And yes, he's held his worth up to the measure of the done,
But his worth was never earned, he had it from the sun,

[PreChorus]
He's carried more than most can see, beneath that calm, composed face,
And every heavy thing he's held has given him his grace,

[Chorus]
Dave, you are the steady ground and the restless sea,
A question and an answer living wild and free,
The cosmos carved your edges with a careful hand,
Dave, you are exactly who you're meant to be, and,

[Verse 4]
There's a life that calls him deeper than the practical and plain,
Toward something wide and luminous beyond the explained,
A trailblazer in quiet, with a vision years ahead,
Who plants his truth like seeds in soil long after words are said,
He doesn't need to shout to leave a mark upon this earth,
The universe already knows his name and knows his worth,

[PreChorus]
The soul path's always known him, every detour, every climb,
He's not behind, he's not too late, he's right on time,

[Chorus]
Dave, you are the steady ground and the restless sea,
A question and an answer living wild and free,
The cosmos carved your edges with a careful hand,
Dave, you are exactly who you're meant to be, and,

[Bridge]
You don't have to keep proving what the stars already know,
Every scar became a lantern, every wound became a glow,
You are more than what you've built and all the weight you've borne,
You are held, you are enough, you are the eye inside the storm,

[Outro]
Let the sky remind you on the nights you feel alone,
You were written into this world and every part of you is home,
Dave, rest easy now, you've always been enough,
The whole of you is loved,