[Verse 1]
There's a lion in the quiet, there's a tide beneath the stone,
A mind that turns the world to maps and never rests alone,
He holds the weight of everything and makes it look like grace,
Calm on the surface, but a universe is moving in that space,
He sees through what is shallow, he can't settle for the skin,
There's a depth that keeps on building from the ground floor up within

[PreChorus]
They see the steady hand he holds, they don't see what it costs,
All the fires burning inward for the things he thought he lost

[Chorus]
Christopher, the stars were slow and careful writing you,
A force that moves through shadows just to bring the light on through,
Christopher, you carry more than anyone can know,
And everything you've weathered is the reason that you glow

[Verse 2]
He loves like something ancient, like a house left warm and wide,
Like he'd rather hold the door for you than ever step inside,
He's built his walls from lessons learned in seasons cold and long,
But every single brick he laid became the proof of what made him strong,
He's reached for something truer than the surface ever shows,
Gone down into the darkness just to find out how far wisdom grows

[PreChorus]
The world has asked so much of him and rarely asked him how,
But what was forged inside that fire is standing with him now

[Chorus]
Christopher, the stars were slow and careful writing you,
A force that moves through shadows just to bring the light on through,
Christopher, you carry more than anyone can know,
And everything you've weathered is the reason that you glow

[Verse 3]
There's a searcher at the center who was never meant for small,
A man who reads between the lines and hears beyond the call,
He's felt the ache of wondering if everything he gives
Is ever going to be enough for the kind of life he lives,
But the answer isn't somewhere else, it never was out there,
It lives inside the steady way he shows up and he cares

[PreChorus]
He doesn't need to prove a thing to earn his place in this,
The ground beneath him always held what doubt made him dismiss

[Chorus]
Christopher, the stars were slow and careful writing you,
A force that moves through shadows just to bring the light on through,
Christopher, you carry more than anyone can know,
And everything you've weathered is the reason that you glow

[Bridge]
The roots go deeper than the storm, the light outlasts the weight,
He was never running late for his life, he was right on time for his fate,
The world still needs what lives in him, the truth he breathes and keeps,
He is more than what he's given and more than what he's seen

[Outro]
So rest now in the knowing you were written with great care,
Every scar a kind of compass, every breath a kind of prayer,
The cosmos didn't lose him in the making of this man,
Christopher was always part of something larger than he can understand