[Verse 1]
There's a current running under all that steady ground,
A mind that speaks in images when words can't be found,
You carry what the world has asked and still find room for more,
A quiet kind of certainty they can't see at the core,
You've built yourself from patience and from something like fire,
A man who holds the tension between duty and desire

[PreChorus]
They see the calm, they don't see the tide,
All those oceans you've been keeping locked inside

[Chorus]
Joseph, you were written in a language wide and deep,
The kind of soul the universe was careful not to keep,
You are more than what they measured, more than what they see,
Joseph, you were always meant to let yourself be free

[Verse 2]
You love like something ancient, like a contract signed in stone,
You don't give your heart lightly and you don't ask much on loan,
There's a part of you that's learning it's okay to need,
That the wall you built for safety doesn't always have to lead,
You've absorbed the weight of others like the tide takes in the shore,
And still you rise each morning with enough to give some more

[PreChorus]
They feel your warmth without the wound behind it,
The scar you carry quietly, so no one else will find it

[Chorus]
Joseph, you were written in a language wide and deep,
The kind of soul the universe was careful not to keep,
You are more than what they measured, more than what they see,
Joseph, you were always meant to let yourself be free

[Verse 3]
You've stood between the old world and the one you know is coming,
Felt the pull of who you were and who you're still becoming,
There's a vision in you stubborn as the roots beneath the earth,
An ache to serve a purpose that reflects your truest worth,
The dreamer and the builder share the same bones in your chest,
And the world you're reaching toward is not a fantasy — it's next

[PreChorus]
You don't need to earn the right to simply be,
The stars already know what you are struggling to see

[Chorus]
Joseph, you were written in a language wide and deep,
The kind of soul the universe was careful not to keep,
You are more than what they measured, more than what they see,
Joseph, you were always meant to let yourself be free

[Bridge]
Every contradiction is a doorway, not a flaw,
The fire and the stillness are the truest things you are,
You've carried what was broken and made meaning from the cost,
Not a single part of you was ever really lost

[Outro]
The cosmos wrote you carefully, with ink that doesn't fade,
You are held in something larger than the choices that you've made,
Joseph, you are whole — you always were, you always will be,
Rest now in the knowing you are finally, fully free