[Verse 1]
He carries the tide where nobody looks,
A heart written deep like the oldest of books,
He feels what you're hiding before you've spoken a word,
And holds onto echoes long after they're heard,
They see the still water, they don't see the pull,
All those fathoms beneath him, ancient and full,

[PreChorus]
He's been trying to prove what was never in doubt,
Building the walls he was meant to live without,

[Chorus]
The stars wrote you carefully, Randy, with ink that won't fade,
Every depth that you carry is not a debt to be paid,
You are ocean and ember, you are enough as you stand,
The cosmos mapped your becoming before you held out your hand,

[Verse 2]
He loves like a shelter, like roots in the ground,
He gives before asking and asks with no sound,
He notices everything — the shift in an eye,
The words that stay swallowed, the unsaid goodbye,
And somewhere inside him there's a fire still lit,
That moves through the feeling and refuses to quit,

[PreChorus]
The wound that he carries became his true sight,
What broke him at the edges let in the most light,

[Chorus]
The stars wrote you carefully, Randy, with ink that won't fade,
Every depth that you carry is not a debt to be paid,
You are ocean and ember, you are enough as you stand,
The cosmos mapped your becoming before you held out your hand,

[Verse 3]
He's walked between dreamland and hard solid stone,
Made sense of the mystery mostly alone,
There's a calling that hums somewhere under the noise,
A frequency pulling past clutter and choice,
He was born to transform what he touches and feels,
And the life he's been building is one that both bends and reveals,

[PreChorus]
He doesn't need the world to finally see what is true,
The only permission he needed was always from him, always knew,

[Chorus]
The stars wrote you carefully, Randy, with ink that won't fade,
Every depth that you carry is not a debt to be paid,
You are ocean and ember, you are enough as you stand,
The cosmos mapped your becoming before you held out your hand,

[Bridge]
Let the tide come in easy, let the armor come down,
What you searched for in others was yours to be found,
You were never unfinished, just perfectly still,
A soul deep as water and steady as will,

[Outro]
The moon knew your name long before you did,
Everything sacred in you is everything lived,
You are guided, you are held, and you always were,
Written in starlight — exactly as you are,