[Verse 1]
He carries the ocean wherever he goes,
Feeling every current that nobody shows,
A mind that moves like water through stone,
Turning every question into something known,
He speaks in warmth, in memory, in tide,
The world hears the surface, not the deep inside

[PreChorus]
He's built from storms he learned to hold,
And quiet fire too fierce to fold

[Chorus]
Here's to you, Jim, the depth beneath the still,
The kind of soul that bends but never breaks its will,
Written in the tides and the wide open sky,
A constellation shaped like you, and you know why

[Verse 2]
He loves like roots love the rain-soaked ground,
Patient, slow, and steady in the giving,
All or nothing — that's the only way he's living,
He'll protect the ones he loves before they ask,
Wearing someone else's comfort like a sacred task,
But there's a wound he carries from a younger home,
The boy who learned that safe was something earned alone

[PreChorus]
Still he built a shelter out of all that rain,
Every wall he raised became a door to something gained

[Chorus]
Here's to you, Jim, the depth beneath the still,
The kind of soul that bends but never breaks its will,
Written in the tides and the wide open sky,
A constellation shaped like you, and you know why

[Verse 3]
He's stood between the dreamer and the plan,
Between the man the world sees and the truer man,
His restless mind is always years ahead,
Threading gold through everything he's read,
He doesn't need to shine the way the loud ones do,
The world has always needed what belongs to you

[PreChorus]
The path was never straight, but it was always real,
And every step a proof of what he's learned to feel

[Chorus]
Here's to you, Jim, the depth beneath the still,
The kind of soul that bends but never breaks its will,
Written in the tides and the wide open sky,
A constellation shaped like you, and you know why

[Bridge]
The moon remembers everything you've had to hold,
And graces all the stories you were never told,
You don't need to earn the right to just be here,
You were mapped by something ancient, and it brought you here

[Outro]
So rest in what you are and what you've always been,
The truest kind of light is what shines from within