[Verse 1]
There's a stillness on the surface, still water running deep,
A mind that maps the undercurrents everyone else can't see,
You carry what you've witnessed like a lantern in the dark,
And every room you walk into, you leave a different mark,
They see the steady presence, they don't see the fire inside,
The whole ocean moving quietly beneath that calm and careful tide

[PreChorus]
You've worn the weight of proving, paid a price you never owed,
But every heavy mile behind you was the making of your soul

[Chorus]
Michael, you were written in the deep and the dark and the true,
The kind of rare that can't be copied, there is only one of you,
You've burned and you've rebuilt, and you'll rise and rise again,
Michael, you are not the struggle — you are everything since then

[Verse 2]
You love like something ancient, like a root beneath the stone,
All-or-nothing, no half-measures, you don't do anything alone,
You need someone who can meet you where the meaning lives and breathes,
Where the conversation goes so deep it tangles in the leaves,
You give before they ask you, you protect before they fall,
And the fiercest thing about you is you feel it all

[PreChorus]
You've searched the wide horizons for the truth worth holding on to,
And everything you've carried on that road has been reshaping you

[Chorus]
Michael, you were written in the deep and the dark and the true,
The kind of rare that can't be copied, there is only one of you,
You've burned and you've rebuilt, and you'll rise and rise again,
Michael, you are not the struggle — you are everything since then

[Verse 3]
There's a wound that lives in silence where the home fires should have been,
And you built your sense of safety from the places in between,
But what grew from all that searching is a knowing hard to shake,
A compass made of instinct that the years helped calibrate,
You redefine what family means, you build it where you stand,
Every shelter that you offer is the work of your own hands

[PreChorus]
The world you're moving toward is one you've dreamed but barely spoken,
And the path that calls you forward holds the key to what was broken

[Chorus]
Michael, you were written in the deep and the dark and the true,
The kind of rare that can't be copied, there is only one of you,
You've burned and you've rebuilt, and you'll rise and rise again,
Michael, you are not the struggle — you are everything since then

[Verse 4]
You were born when something ancient pressed its seal upon your name,
And the life you've lived in questions is the source of your own flame,
You don't need to keep on earning what was yours before your first breath,
Every doubt you've ever drowned in made your roots grow deeper yet,
The universe laid down your bones with more intention than you know,
There's a purpose running through you like a river built to flow

[PreChorus]
So let the stars confirm what you already feel is true,
The cosmos wrote you carefully and every word was you

[Bridge]
You don't have to hold it all together every hour of every day,
The depth that you were given was never meant to carry you away,
You are allowed to rest inside the life that you have made,
You are held, you are enough, you were never once afraid in vain

[Outro]
So rise the way you always have, from ash and tide and stone,
Michael, you were never lost — you were always coming home