[Verse 1]
He weighs every word before it leaves his tongue,
A careful kind of grace he's carried since he was young,
They see the stillness, they don't see the tide,
All those fathomless currents running deep inside,
He feels the room before he ever speaks,
A quiet strength that only shows in what he seeks

[PreChorus]
The scales he holds were never meant to weigh him down,
He was born to find the beauty no one else had found

[Chorus]
James, you are written in the balance and the deep,
A soul too wide for ordinary sleep,
The cosmos carved you carefully from water, fire, and stone,
James, you were never, ever walking this alone

[Verse 2]
There's an ocean underneath the composed face he shows,
A Pisces moon that floods the places only stillness knows,
He's been the anchor holding everyone in place,
Absorbing every sorrow, every unremembered grace,
The wounds he never named became the wisdom that he earned,
Every silence he survived became a lantern that he burned

[PreChorus]
He's carried more than hands were made to hold,
But tenderness like his is worth more than gold

[Chorus]
James, you are written in the balance and the deep,
A soul too wide for ordinary sleep,
The cosmos carved you carefully from water, fire, and stone,
James, you were never, ever walking this alone

[Verse 3]
He came into this world with iron close beside his skin,
A seriousness that hardened into armor from within,
But underneath the reserve, a fire that commands the height,
A man who builds his legacy by doing what is right,
He's searching for the truth that no one bothered to protect,
The kind of faith that only comes from walking through the wreck

[PreChorus]
The path he seeks is wider than he dares to dream,
He is more than anyone has ever let him seem

[Chorus]
James, you are written in the balance and the deep,
A soul too wide for ordinary sleep,
The cosmos carved you carefully from water, fire, and stone,
James, you were never, ever walking this alone

[Bridge]
Every word he couldn't speak became a sacred well,
Every truth he kept inside, a story time will tell,
He does not need to earn his place beneath these ancient skies,
He was always, always worthy of the life behind his eyes

[Outro]
The stars remembered who he was before the world began,
They mapped this out in fire, every thread and every plan,
James, rest easy now, you've always been enough,
You are held by something older than the hardest parts were tough