[Verse 1]
He carries the whole sky in his chest, steady and wide,
A man who gives his best work to the world, then steps aside,
He thinks with his heart, reads the room before a word is said,
Poetic and precise, a quiet fire burning deep and red,
He's the one who fixes what is broken before you knew it broke,
The kind of man whose love is in the doing, not the spoke,

[PreChorus]
But even mountains carry weight that no one stops to name,
He's held his own in silence, and he'd do it all the same,

[Chorus]
Oh Mike, the stars wrote you careful and true,
There's a lion in your bones and an open sky in you,
You've been the steady ground beneath the ones you love the most,
And the world keeps turning warmer just because of what you've chose,

[Verse 2]
He's built his life like timber, every plank laid square and sound,
He doesn't need the spotlight, but he lights up all around,
His fire moves before the world can catch up to the flame,
There's a restless kind of courage underneath that steady frame,
He craves the real, the honest, the connection that runs deep,
The kind of love that laughs and talks, no promise left to keep,

[PreChorus]
He's carried burdens quiet in the corners of the night,
But every heavy season made his backbone twice as right,

[Chorus]
Oh Mike, the stars wrote you careful and true,
There's a lion in your bones and an open sky in you,
You've been the steady ground beneath the ones you love the most,
And the world keeps turning warmer just because of what you've chose,

[Verse 3]
They see the calm, they don't see all the current running deep,
The way he turns his worry into something worth the keep,
He's walked through fog and come back holding lanterns in his hand,
A man who bends toward freedom but still knows just where to stand,
Home is where he's tender, where the walls come gently down,
The softest kind of thunder in the heart of this whole town,

[PreChorus]
He don't need to prove a thing to earn his place among the great,
The grace he gives so freely is the gift no one could fake,

[Chorus]
Oh Mike, the stars wrote you careful and true,
There's a lion in your bones and an open sky in you,
You've been the steady ground beneath the ones you love the most,
And the world keeps turning warmer just because of what you've chose,

[Bridge]
The universe laid down your road with patience and with care,
Every scar became a compass, every doubt became a prayer,
You are more than all the weight you quietly learned to hold,
You are fire, you are water, you are steady, you are gold,

[Outro]
Oh Mike, you were written in the deep and ancient light,
Rest now in the knowing that you've always gotten it right,