[Verse 1]
There's a tide beneath the quiet you carry every day,
A current running fathoms deep that words can't quite convey,
You feel what others overlook, you hold what others miss,
And every room you walk into gets warmer just from this,
You've led with steady hands and heart while doubting what you've built,
But the life you've shaped around your people carries no fault, no guilt.

[PreChorus]
They see the surface, still and sure,
They don't see all that you endure.

[Chorus]
But the stars wrote Dave into the deep and the wide,
A man built of ocean and of quiet pride,
You've given more than you'll ever know you've given,
And every soul you've loved is proof that you've been living.

[Verse 2]
Your mind moves fast across the distance, curious and bright,
You've never stopped at boundaries when you could reach for light,
Ideas come like weather fronts, shifting, bold, and free,
And the questions that you carry are your greatest poetry,
There's a wit behind your warmth, a laugh inside the calm,
And you've always had a way of being someone else's balm.

[PreChorus]
You gave before you thought to give,
That's the only way you know to live.

[Chorus]
But the stars wrote Dave into the deep and the wide,
A man built of ocean and of quiet pride,
You've given more than you'll ever know you've given,
And every soul you've loved is proof that you've been living.

[Verse 3]
There's a wound that never asked for witness, carried close and still,
A quiet ache for being seen that no applause could fill,
But everything you built from that — the patience, and the care,
The way you showed up anyway — that took a kind of rare,
You don't need the world to name it, it was always written there,
In the choices that you made for love, the burden that you'd bear.

[PreChorus]
The weight you carried made you wise,
And the light in you was worth the price.

[Chorus]
But the stars wrote Dave into the deep and the wide,
A man built of ocean and of quiet pride,
You've given more than you'll ever know you've given,
And every soul you've loved is proof that you've been living.

[Bridge]
The cosmos drew you carefully, in ink that doesn't fade,
A life of quiet magnitude in every choice you've made,
You were always more than enough, you were always more than known,
The universe planted something rare and watched it fully grown.

[Outro]
So rest now in the knowing that your chapter is not small,
You were written in the constellations, held through every fall,
The tide will always find its shore, and Dave, it found you true.