[Verse 1]
There's an ocean underneath the quiet you wear,
Tides pulling deep where no one else would dare,
A mind that moves like wind through open sky,
Connecting every dot before you say goodbye,
You read the room before the room knows you're there,
And carry what you feel like something sacred and rare

[PreChorus]
They see the surface, steady, still, and sure,
But you're a thousand fathoms deep and more

[Chorus]
Eric, you were written in the dark and the light,
A soul too wide to ever fit inside one night,
The kind of love that holds the whole world in its hands,
You are already everything the universe planned

[Verse 2]
You've built your worth on ground that kept on shifting,
Felt the weight of proving while your spirit kept lifting,
The hunger to be seen without the asking twice,
Pouring out for others at a quiet price,
But every wall you raised became a kind of knowing,
Every wound a river, and the river kept on flowing

[PreChorus]
They see the fire, loyal, warm, and bright,
They don't see the hours that you've wrestled through the night

[Chorus]
Eric, you were written in the dark and the light,
A soul too wide to ever fit inside one night,
The kind of love that holds the whole world in its hands,
You are already everything the universe planned

[Verse 3]
You love like something ancient holds a shoreline,
Tender and devoted when the feeling is right,
Your mind chases truth like it's a door left open,
Speaking quiet power through the words you've chosen,
There's a compass made of starlight in your chest,
Pointing past the proving toward the place of rest

[PreChorus]
The cosmos didn't carve you to be small,
You were made to carry what would break the others all

[Chorus]
Eric, you were written in the dark and the light,
A soul too wide to ever fit inside one night,
The kind of love that holds the whole world in its hands,
You are already everything the universe planned

[Bridge]
You don't have to earn the ground beneath your feet,
You don't have to be unbroken to be complete,
The depth in you is not a burden, it's a gift,
You were always the tide, not the things that drift

[Outro]
The stars were slow and careful when they made you whole,
Every contradiction just another part of your soul,
You are held, you are known, you are enough today,
Eric, you were always enough