[Verse 1]
He reads the room before he walks through the door,
A mind like a current, always searching for more,
Quick with a word, with a laugh, with a thought,
Wearing it easy, all the wisdom he's bought,
But underneath all that brightness and wit,
There's a tide running deeper than anyone's seen it

[PreChorus]
He carries the weight of the ones that he loves,
Pouring out freely what he's never asked enough of

[Chorus]
Written in the stars before the world had a name,
John, you were made of both the wind and the flame,
The moon kept your secrets, the sky mapped your worth,
There's no one who's ever been needed more here on earth

[Verse 2]
He wants to be recognized but fears being known,
So he shines for the crowd while he aches on his own,
A dreamer who built something solid and real,
Who learned that to lead means to also kneel,
Who stayed when it cost him and gave without praise,
Who earned every stripe through the length of his days

[PreChorus]
He second-guesses what the world already knows,
That the quiet ones hold up the weight no one shows

[Chorus]
Written in the stars before the world had a name,
John, you were made of both the wind and the flame,
The moon kept your secrets, the sky mapped your worth,
There's no one who's ever been needed more here on earth

[Verse 3]
He loves like an ocean that forgets its own shore,
Gives everything freely, then wonders what's for,
He feels what you're holding before you say a word,
Sees the ones that are breaking, the ones going unheard,
That tenderness buried beneath all that pride,
Is the truest and rarest and best thing inside

[PreChorus]
He doesn't have to hold the world to matter this way,
He already changed it just by choosing to stay

[Chorus]
Written in the stars before the world had a name,
John, you were made of both the wind and the flame,
The moon kept your secrets, the sky mapped your worth,
There's no one who's ever been needed more here on earth

[Bridge]
Every question he carried, every doubt he sat through,
Was the universe shaping the fullness of you,
Not broken, not behind, not too much or too small,
Just exactly the person we needed through all

[Outro]
The stars don't make mistakes and they didn't with him,
Every loss was a lesson, every scar was a hymn,
John, you are written in something that lasts,
The best of it's now, not just something that passed