[Verse 1]
He reads the room before a word is spoken,
Feels the current underneath, quiet and open,
A tide that runs so deep it doesn't make a sound,
The kind of calm that holds a whole world underground,
He carries everyone's weight like it weighs nothing at all,
And builds his life like something meant to stand, not fall

[PreChorus]
But who holds the one who holds the room together,
Who sees the man behind the steady, enduring weather

[Chorus]
Oh Jim, you are the river and the stone,
A compass and a shelter and a home,
The stars wrote you slowly, wrote you true,
There's a whole wide world that's better because of you

[Verse 2]
He loves like something ancient, wide, and real,
Not the kind that asks for proof of how you feel,
Friendship first, then something deeper, something rare,
A loyalty so steady it becomes the air,
He's felt the sting of worlds that didn't understand,
But still he reaches out an open, generous hand

[PreChorus]
They see the warmth, they don't see what it cost,
All those tides he crossed alone to not get lost

[Chorus]
Oh Jim, you are the river and the stone,
A compass and a shelter and a home,
The stars wrote you slowly, wrote you true,
There's a whole wide world that's better because of you

[Verse 3]
He's stood inside the fire and learned its name,
Walked through the kind of dark that rearranges flame,
His mind moves like a current, wide and clear,
Reaching for the truth behind the things that appear,
He doesn't need applause to know the worth he holds,
The depth of him is not a story time has told

[PreChorus]
He's enough right now, not someday, not when he's done,
He's already what he's always been becoming

[Chorus]
Oh Jim, you are the river and the stone,
A compass and a shelter and a home,
The stars wrote you slowly, wrote you true,
There's a whole wide world that's better because of you

[Bridge]
Let the tide come in and let the tide go free,
Every wave that broke just made him who he's meant to be,
The moon has watched him carry more than most would dare,
And the cosmos knows his name and holds him there

[Outro]
Oh Jim, you were written by the light,
Everything you are is everything right,
You are held, you are known, you are enough,
The universe has always been in love