[Verse 1]
There's a steadiness in you the world can't quite name,
The kind that holds the fire quiet while you tend the flame,
You've learned the weight of roots, how deep they have to go,
How the oldest kind of strength is what you rarely show,
You carry what was given and you carry what you've built,
Every tangled thread of history rewoven into gilt.

[PreChorus]
They see the calm, they don't see the tide,
All those fathoms running deep inside.

[Chorus]
Palmer, you are more than what you hold together,
More than every storm you've learned to weather,
Written in the quiet and the wild and the true,
The cosmos built a world and put it all in you.

[Verse 2]
Your mind moves like a current through the walls of what's been known,
Connecting dots that no one else can see until you've shown,
You dream in systems, futures, the uncharted and the new,
And still you show up daily just to give what care is due,
You love like something ancient that won't follow any rule,
Free-spirited and loyal, warm and strange and beautiful.

[PreChorus]
You give before you're asked and ask for nothing back,
But you deserve the love you've never let yourself unwrap.

[Chorus]
Palmer, you are more than what you hold together,
More than every storm you've learned to weather,
Written in the quiet and the wild and the true,
The cosmos built a world and put it all in you.

[Verse 3]
There's a wound somewhere beneath the joy of what you make,
A fear that what you offer isn't quite enough to take,
You've poured yourself into the work, the people, and the craft,
Wondering if the things you build will finally, finally last,
But the very depth that doubts you is the depth that sets you free,
What they called too much was always just your full capacity.

[PreChorus]
You don't have to earn the right to rest or to be known,
Everything you're reaching for has already been sown.

[Chorus]
Palmer, you are more than what you hold together,
More than every storm you've learned to weather,
Written in the quiet and the wild and the true,
The cosmos built a world and put it all in you.

[Bridge]
Let the mountain hold your history, let the water hold your dreams,
You were made for more than holding everything at the seams,
There's a north star in your marrow pointing somewhere worth the climb,
You are guided, you are held, you are right on time.

[Outro]
So rest inside the knowing that you always were enough,
That the tenderest of people are the ones built strong and tough,
Palmer, you were written carefully, with ink that never fades,
And the life ahead of you is worth every price it's paid.