[Verse 1]
He holds the world steady with open hands,
Reads every room before he makes his plans,
Calm on the surface, but the current runs deep,
A vault full of feeling he was taught not to keep,
He builds what lasts, he tends what's true,
A quiet kind of faithful running all the way through,

[PreChorus]
But carrying it all can wear a good man down,
He was made for more than holding everyone's ground,

[Chorus]
Gary, the stars were placed with care,
You are rooted, you are rare,
The earth, the fire, everything you are,
Was written in the making of a star,

[Verse 2]
He loves like a friend before he loves like a flame,
Keeps the conversation light but remembers your name,
Fights for his people from the shadows unseen,
The most loyal kind of love that has ever been,
There's a wound he carries quiet in the bone,
The fear that love might leave him standing alone,

[PreChorus]
But every scar he's carried made him someone real,
And the depth of what he's been through is the depth of what he feels,

[Chorus]
Gary, the stars were placed with care,
You are rooted, you are rare,
The earth, the fire, everything you are,
Was written in the making of a star,

[Verse 3]
He's walked the long road wearing his own crown,
Refused every box they tried to put him down,
A mind that catches fire before the words arrive,
A man who knows the darkness makes the light more alive,
He questions what is broken, he looks for what is whole,
That hunger for the truth is just the compass of his soul,

[PreChorus]
He doesn't need to be louder to be seen,
He already is the realest thing between,

[Chorus]
Gary, the stars were placed with care,
You are rooted, you are rare,
The earth, the fire, everything you are,
Was written in the making of a star,

[Bridge]
The universe didn't build him by mistake,
Every line, every lesson, every choice he had to make,
He is enough in the stillness, enough in the storm,
He was always already exactly the right form,

[Outro]
So rest in it now, let the whole world know,
Gary, you were written to shine and to grow,
The cosmos holds you, has always held you tight,
You are the kind of man who becomes someone's light,