[Verse 1]
Two minds running in the same chest at once,
A thousand open doors and he walks through the front,
Quick enough to catch what others barely see,
Curious about the world like it owes him the key,
But underneath the wit there's a current running deep,
A whole ocean he's learning he doesn't have to keep

[PreChorus]
They see the surface, all the charm and the light,
They don't see the tides he's been managing at night

[Chorus]
Written in the dark between the fire and the deep,
Corey, you are more than the face that they keep,
The cosmos drew you carefully, with ink that holds,
A soul too rare to fit inside the stories they told

[Verse 2]
He fights for everyone before he fights for himself,
Puts his own untended wounds back up on the shelf,
There's a hunger for the truth that won't let him rest,
A belief in something bigger beating inside his chest,
He's not careless with his love, he just loves too wide,
And the ones who earned it know what lives inside

[PreChorus]
He gives before he's asked, he stays when things get strange,
That kind of depth ain't common, that kind of love don't change

[Chorus]
Written in the dark between the fire and the deep,
Corey, you are more than the face that they keep,
The cosmos drew you carefully, with ink that holds,
A soul too rare to fit inside the stories they told

[Verse 3]
There's a wound he carries quiet, from a place long ago,
Where the walls learned to hold what the heart couldn't show,
He built himself a lantern out of everything he lost,
Learned to count his worth in something other than the cost,
The version of him no one sees is the truest one alive,
The one who chose to keep on going when it hurt to survive

[PreChorus]
Every scar became a doorway, every doubt became a root,
Every time he almost broke, he grew something resolute

[Chorus]
Written in the dark between the fire and the deep,
Corey, you are more than the face that they keep,
The cosmos drew you carefully, with ink that holds,
A soul too rare to fit inside the stories they told

[Verse 4]
He's the kind of man who questions what the world calls done,
Who sees the cracks in every system and still faces the sun,
His mind won't stop at good enough, it reaches past the rim,
Not restlessness — it's vision that was always burning in him,
He's learning that the home he's searched for isn't far away,
It lives inside the quiet he keeps putting off til someday

[PreChorus]
The world needs what he carries, every hard-won piece,
There's a life that's waiting for him on the other side of peace

[Chorus]
Written in the dark between the fire and the deep,
Corey, you are more than the face that they keep,
The cosmos drew you carefully, with ink that holds,
A soul too rare to fit inside the stories they told

[Bridge]
Let the old weight go, it was never yours to own,
Every road you've walked has led you closer to your home,
You were made from something ancient, something steady and true,
The stars didn't make a mistake when they made you

[Outro]
So rest in what you are, not what you're still becoming,
You were whole before the searching and the running,
You are guided, you are held, you are enough