[Verse 1]
He's got a mind that moves like weather, wide and free,
Always chasing the horizon, searching what the truth could be,
Honest to the bone, even when the words cut clean,
The kind of soul who tells you what he means,
There's a fire underneath that calm, controlled exterior,
A man who's built his world from something deep and serious

[PreChorus]
They see the steady hand, they don't see the tide,
All those oceans running quiet, running deep inside

[Chorus]
Oh, Ed, you were written in the long way home,
A compass in the dark for everyone you've known,
You don't have to carry every sky you've ever crossed,
You were never, never lost

[Verse 2]
He loves like something ancient, like a covenant he keeps,
All or nothing, every feeling running fathoms deep,
He'd rebuild the broken walls before you'd ask him to,
Pour his whole heart into everything he's moving through,
But behind the man who gives, there lives a quiet ache,
A wound that never asked permission just to take

[PreChorus]
They see the calm he carries like a shield and crown,
Nobody counts the weight of what he won't put down

[Chorus]
Oh, Ed, you were written in the long way home,
A compass in the dark for everyone you've known,
You don't have to carry every sky you've ever crossed,
You were never, never lost

[Verse 3]
He came here wired different, born to question what was sold,
A restless, electric current running under all that gold,
He learned that joy needs room to breathe and love needs room to land,
That who he is was always more than what the world had planned,
The scars he carries aren't the proof of what went wrong,
They're every note that shaped the marrow of this song

[PreChorus]
The universe mapped him carefully with ink that doesn't fade,
Every valley he came through was laying groundwork being laid

[Chorus]
Oh, Ed, you were written in the long way home,
A compass in the dark for everyone you've known,
You don't have to carry every sky you've ever crossed,
You were never, never lost

[Bridge]
The world needs what you carry, every hard-won, quiet grace,
All the love you gave before they asked, it wasn't out of place,
You are rooted, you are held, you are more than what you've done,
You were enough before you ever tried to prove it to anyone

[Outro]
Still burning like a Sagittarius sun,
Still whole, still yours, still beautifully undone,
Oh, Ed — you were never, never lost