[Verse 1]
He moves like the first flame of an early spring day,
A mind full of questions, a heart built to blaze,
He'll look at the horizon and call it a door,
Always chasing the truth just beyond what he knows for sure,
There's a tide running deep beneath that steady gaze,
A whole ocean of feeling behind all that Aries fire and grace

[PreChorus]
He carries the world like it weighs nothing at all,
But even the boldest need someone to catch them when they fall

[Chorus]
Hal, you were written in the fire and the tide,
A force that moves the mountain and a heart running wide,
You don't need to prove what was already true,
The stars spent a lifetime becoming someone just like you

[Verse 2]
He loves like a spark that won't wait for permission to land,
Diving headfirst into feeling with an open hand,
There's a softness beneath all that courage and speed,
Something tender and searching for what the soul needs,
He's dreamed of connections that reach all the way down,
The kind of love worth the fire and the losing of ground

[PreChorus]
He's built his walls from the weight of a world he held tight,
But even the deepest of wounds can become a guiding light

[Chorus]
Hal, you were written in the fire and the tide,
A force that moves the mountain and a heart running wide,
You don't need to prove what was already true,
The stars spent a lifetime becoming someone just like you

[Verse 3]
He's walked through the rooms where recognition felt thin,
Put his hands to the work while the doubt crept in,
But the legacy he's building ain't made out of praise,
It's made of the mornings he showed up through the haze,
There's a quiet kind of power in the ones who endure,
And everything he's carried has made him something more

[PreChorus]
The horizon keeps calling and he knows how to go,
There's a compass inside him even when the road doesn't show

[Chorus]
Hal, you were written in the fire and the tide,
A force that moves the mountain and a heart running wide,
You don't need to prove what was already true,
The stars spent a lifetime becoming someone just like you

[Verse 4]
He thinks in rivers, in visions, in wide open skies,
A dreamer who reasons and a fighter who tries,
He's broken old cycles and rewritten the code,
Healed the ground beneath him as he carried the load,
What the world couldn't name in him, he already knew,
He was always the whole thing, and the whole thing was true

[PreChorus]
Let the fire inside him be the light and the lead,
He is everything already that he'll ever need

[Chorus]
Hal, you were written in the fire and the tide,
A force that moves the mountain and a heart running wide,
You don't need to prove what was already true,
The stars spent a lifetime becoming someone just like you

[Bridge]
The cosmos etched his name before the world began to speak,
Every storm he's traveled through was just refining what he'd be,
He is rooted, he is rising, he is ancient and he's free,
And the life he's living now is his greatest victory

[Outro]
Hal, you were always enough, just as you are,
A fire in the open field, a fixed and faithful star,
The universe don't make mistakes, and darlin', that means you,
Were written with intention, and every word came true