[Verse 1]
He carries the weight of a world he built inside,
A mind like open water, running deep and wide,
The stillness that you see is just the surface of the lake,
There's a current underneath him that the calm ones never break,
He's wired for the future but he's anchored to the past,
Building something solid that he knows is meant to last,

[PreChorus]
They see the steady hand but not the storm he's learned to hold,
A heart that runs on logic till it breaks into the cold,

[Chorus]
This is the life of Kory, written in the bones,
A man who finds his meaning building something of his own,
Kory, you are seen now, every fracture, every flame,
The universe spent decades learning how to say your name,

[Verse 2]
He loves like something ancient, like a promise set in stone,
Takes a lifetime to trust someone but never loves alone,
There's a tenderness he buries underneath the careful words,
A devotion quiet enough to go mostly unheard,
He's the one who stays when everyone else is gone,
Hands that hold the structure while the others carry on,

[PreChorus]
He never asked for glory but his legacy runs deep,
Every seed he planted in the dark begins to speak,

[Chorus]
This is the life of Kory, written in the bones,
A man who finds his meaning building something of his own,
Kory, you are seen now, every fracture, every flame,
The universe spent decades learning how to say your name,

[Verse 3]
There's a wound he keeps returning to like a door without a key,
The question of his worth sewn into everything he'll be,
But the doubt that drove him harder was the fire in disguise,
Every time he proved himself he was learning how to rise,
He was never meant to fit the shape that others tried to frame,
He was always something wider, something wilder, something untamed,

[PreChorus]
The world he holds is ready now to finally hold him back,
There's nothing left to prove along the road he's on the track,

[Chorus]
This is the life of Kory, written in the bones,
A man who finds his meaning building something of his own,
Kory, you are seen now, every fracture, every flame,
The universe spent decades learning how to say your name,

[Bridge]
He doesn't need permission to stop carrying it all,
The ground was always with him every time he thought he'd fall,
What looks like contradiction is just depth the world can't hold,
And what he thinks is ordinary is how legends get told,

[Outro]
So rest in what you've built here, let the tides confirm your worth,
Kory, you were written in the Southern sky at birth,