[Verse 1]
They see the easy smile, the open hand you give,
They don't see the ocean underneath the way you live,
A mind that chases horizons, always wide and true,
But carrying tides so heavy that only you know you,
You've worn the weight of searching like it's stitched into your skin,
Building quiet empires from the fire kept within

[PreChorus]
But every depth you've wandered made you wiser than you know,
There's a reason for the pressure — that's how diamonds grow

[Chorus]
Nick, you were written in the dark between the stars,
Every wound a map, every scar a door left ajar,
You don't have to earn what the cosmos already gave,
You were enough before you learned to be brave

[Verse 2]
You love like someone who studied every way love breaks,
Steady and deliberate, careful with the stakes,
You don't give your heart in pieces — when you give, it's all,
But you've learned to build foundations strong enough to hold the fall,
They feel the warmth you offer long before you say a word,
You speak in acts of loyalty that never go unheard

[PreChorus]
But every wall you've built was never weakness, never shame,
It was ancient self-protection — and it kept your sacred flame

[Chorus]
Nick, you were written in the dark between the stars,
Every wound a map, every scar a door left ajar,
You don't have to earn what the cosmos already gave,
You were enough before you learned to be brave

[Verse 3]
There's a version of you that the world hasn't fully seen,
The one who aches to let the joy in, who lives somewhere between,
The thunder and the stillness, the visionary and the doubt,
The voice that holds a universe it's just now learning to shout,
The sky is shifting open — something tender finds the light,
Healing doesn't ask permission, it just moves in overnight

[PreChorus]
So lay the proving down, let the searching find its rest,
The path was never punishment — it was always leading west

[Chorus]
Nick, you were written in the dark between the stars,
Every wound a map, every scar a door left ajar,
You don't have to earn what the cosmos already gave,
You were enough before you learned to be brave

[Bridge]
The universe didn't make you hard to understand,
It made you deep enough to hold what others can't withstand,
You are the arrow and the archer, both the question and the call,
Steady, strange, and luminous — and held through all of it, through all

[Outro]
Let the stars you carry finally carry you,
Nick, you are guided, you are rooted, you are true,
The cosmos wrote you carefully — and it hasn't finished yet,
You are not what broke you — you are everything it built