[Verse 1]
He feels the current long before the rain,
Reads the room like rivers read the plain,
There's an ocean living underneath his chest,
A quiet tide that never gets to rest,
He wears the calm like a coat out in the cold,
But the depth in him could never be controlled

[PreChorus]
They see the surface, never know the weight,
Of everything he carries past the gate

[Chorus]
Here's to you, Joe, built from water and flame,
A heart that keeps on giving just the same,
The world couldn't write a soul like yours twice,
Every scar a story, every storm made you wise

[Verse 2]
He loves like something ancient and sure,
Slow and steady, patient to the core,
Show him that your word is worth its salt,
And he'll stand beside you through every fault,
But cross the line and something shifts inside,
A lion rising, quiet before the tide

[PreChorus]
He don't need to shout for the room to feel,
That everything he carries, carries real

[Chorus]
Here's to you, Joe, built from water and flame,
A heart that keeps on giving just the same,
The world couldn't write a soul like yours twice,
Every scar a story, every storm made you wise

[Verse 3]
He's seen the darkness knock on his own door,
Stood there in the hallway, took it to the core,
The kind of man who heals by going through,
Not around the fire, straight into the blue,
And what he found on the other side of pain,
Was a grace so wide it fell like summer rain

[PreChorus]
He don't talk about the battles that he won,
But heaven knows the weight of what he's done

[Chorus]
Here's to you, Joe, built from water and flame,
A heart that keeps on giving just the same,
The world couldn't write a soul like yours twice,
Every scar a story, every storm made you wise

[Verse 4]
He dreams beyond the fences and the known,
Follows something deeper than what's shown,
There's a compass in him pointing toward the light,
A quiet kind of courage in the night,
He don't need a crowd to know his worth,
The sky wrote him careful when they made this earth

[PreChorus]
And everything he is, is more than enough,
The tender and the lion, the gentle and the tough

[Chorus]
Here's to you, Joe, built from water and flame,
A heart that keeps on giving just the same,
The world couldn't write a soul like yours twice,
Every scar a story, every storm made you wise

[Bridge]
The stars still hold the shape of who he's been,
A soul too wide for anyone to fully see,
He carries home wherever he may roam,
And love will always know the way back home

[Outro]
So here's to the man who gave more than he knew,
Joe, every river finds its way back to you,
You are held, you are seen, you have always been right,
A good man walking steady in the light