[Verse 1]
He's got a mind that moves like wind through open fields,
Two voices talking at once, both of them real,
Quick to laugh, quick to think, always ten steps ahead,
But there's a mountain running quiet underneath what he's said,
He shows the world the spark, not the stone holding it up,
The easy grin that hides a heart that never fills enough,

[PreChorus]
He carries what he's earned like it weighs more than gold,
And he gives so much away before he's ever told,

[Chorus]
Oh Scott, you are the river and the ridge,
The steady hand that builds the burning bridge,
More whole than you've been willing to believe,
The stars wrote you down careful when they made you breathe,

[Verse 2]
He loves like someone guarding something ancient and rare,
Loyal to the bone but slow to say what's living in there,
He'll fight for every soul before he'll fight for his own,
And wonder why the silence in him feels so much like home,
There's a wound around the asking, around daring to need,
But every wall he's built has been a garden in seed,

[PreChorus]
He thinks if he stops moving then the world might see through,
But the stillness is the part that makes him most purely true,

[Chorus]
Oh Scott, you are the river and the ridge,
The steady hand that builds the burning bridge,
More whole than you've been willing to believe,
The stars wrote you down careful when they made you breathe,

[Verse 3]
There's a restlessness inside him like a hawk on a wire,
Craving open sky but warming wings by the fire,
He measures every step against some mark set too high,
An inner voice that critiques what his instincts have tried,
But that precision is a compass, not a cage in disguise,
Every detail he has tended is a testament to his life,

[PreChorus]
He doesn't need to earn his place among the ones he loves,
He already holds the ground they all are standing on,

[Chorus]
Oh Scott, you are the river and the ridge,
The steady hand that builds the burning bridge,
More whole than you've been willing to believe,
The stars wrote you down careful when they made you breathe,

[Verse 4]
The world out there has needed what he quietly holds,
That rare kind of wisdom that can't be bought or sold,
He sees the truth in things before the surface breaks,
Feels the pull of something deeper in the choices that he makes,
There's a purpose laced through every road he's traveled hard,
And every scar he carries is a compass pointing toward,

[PreChorus]
He doesn't have to prove the fire that lives inside his chest,
The ones who know him know he's always giving more than best,

[Chorus]
Oh Scott, you are the river and the ridge,
The steady hand that builds the burning bridge,
More whole than you've been willing to believe,
The stars wrote you down careful when they made you breathe,

[Bridge]
Let the mountain hold you, let the current run,
You were built from something older than the sun,
You don't need to carry every stone alone,
You were always, always enough to call home,

[Outro]
The ridge lines of this life have known your name,
And nothing that you carry is in vain,
Rest easy in the knowing you are seen,
You are exactly who you were meant to be,