[Verse 1]
He carries a mind like a live wire humming,
Two thoughts at once and a third one coming,
Quick with a word but slow with his ache,
Steady as stone with so much at stake,
He built his whole world with these two bare hands,
On roots that held firm through shifting sands

[PreChorus]
There's a tide beneath the calm he wears,
An ocean of feeling nobody dares

[Chorus]
Written in the dark between the stars,
Ernie, the cosmos knows your scars,
Every jagged edge, every tender seam,
You are more than you have dared to dream

[Verse 2]
He loves like a fire that clears the ground,
All or nothing, no in-between found,
He'd give you the warmth before you ask,
Then wonder in silence if it will last,
His heart holds the weight of what it fears,
But the deepest rivers carve through years

[PreChorus]
He sees the fractures as proof he's failed,
But every crack is where the light has sailed

[Chorus]
Written in the dark between the stars,
Ernie, the cosmos knows your scars,
Every jagged edge, every tender seam,
You are more than you have dared to dream

[Verse 3]
He moves like a man with something to prove,
But the world already bends to his groove,
There's a stillness in him like sky before rain,
Where the beautiful things take root in pain,
He was never the sum of what went wrong,
He was always the place where light grew strong

[PreChorus]
Let the long road speak, let the quiet land,
You were always held in a greater hand

[Chorus]
Written in the dark between the stars,
Ernie, the cosmos knows your scars,
Every jagged edge, every tender seam,
You are more than you have dared to dream

[Bridge]
The universe wrote him carefully and true,
In frequencies the naked eye won't view,
There is no version of this life where he's not enough,
He was forged in grace and born to love

[Outro]
So let the night sky hold what words can't say,
He was mapped by light long before this day,
Ernie, you are seen, you are held, you are home,
The stars have always known you're not alone