[Verse 1]
He carries the weight of everyone he loves like it's air,
A quiet kind of strength that most people don't see standing there,
The world calls him steady, calls him calm, calls him sure,
But there's a tide underneath that runs deep and pure,
He feels everything — the room, the moment, the need,
And gives before he's asked, 'cause that's just how he breathes

[PreChorus]
He built himself on bedrock, not on borrowed praise,
A man who found his purpose in the hardest days

[Chorus]
Dave, the stars have always known your name,
Written in the current, in the tide and flame,
You are more than what you carry, more than what you've done,
Dave, you were mapped before the world had begun

[Verse 2]
There's a fire in his thinking, like lightning in the bone,
His mind moves three steps ahead and he often feels alone,
Not because no one loves him — they do, fiercely and true —
But because few can follow where his vision breaks through,
He pours himself into people like the ocean pours to shore,
And wonders in the quiet if anyone pours back anymore

[PreChorus]
He's lived inside the in-between of longing and of pride,
The part that wants to shine and the part that wants to hide

[Chorus]
Dave, the stars have always known your name,
Written in the current, in the tide and flame,
You are more than what you carry, more than what you've done,
Dave, you were mapped before the world had begun

[Verse 3]
He loves like something ancient — deliberate and real,
Not in grand declarations but in how he makes you feel,
In the small things he remembers, in the way he shows up straight,
In the loyalty that doesn't leave, no matter how long it takes,
There was pain that shaped the foundation, storms that tested stone,
But every scar became the mortar that he built a home upon

[PreChorus]
The universe has held him through every heavy year,
And what he thought was weight was the proof that he was here

[Chorus]
Dave, the stars have always known your name,
Written in the current, in the tide and flame,
You are more than what you carry, more than what you've done,
Dave, you were mapped before the world had begun

[Bridge]
He doesn't need to prove it, doesn't need to earn the light,
The cosmos wrote him carefully and got every detail right,
Let the healing find the places that have waited for so long,
What was broken was the kindling for a slow and lasting song

[Outro]
Dave, you are enough — you always were, you always will,
The stars are still speaking, and they're speaking of you still