[Verse 1]
He reads the land like scripture, finds the truth in every seam,
A mind that won't stop turning 'til the details fit the dream,
He fixes what is broken, keeps his promises and word,
The kind of quiet steady strength that most folks never heard,
There's a wildfire in his thinking, lightning caught inside his chest,
A man who holds the whole world up and rarely says it weighs on him best

[PreChorus]
But underneath the even keel, there's an ocean running deep,
A heart that learned to guard itself while others were asleep

[Chorus]
Let the stars speak, Bill, they know your name,
They wrote you careful, not for ordinary fame,
You're the bedrock and the river, you're the dark before the dawn,
Steady as September, and twice as hard to move along

[Verse 2]
He loves by showing up before you know you need him there,
He notices the little things nobody else would care,
He'll carry what you hand him without asking what it weighs,
But every river needs its banks to keep from losing its way,
The walls he's built weren't born of cold, they came from knowing pain,
And every one of them's a proof of all he's walked through to remain

[PreChorus]
He's been the one who holds it tight when everything comes loose,
And never claimed the credit for the storms he helped reduce

[Chorus]
Let the stars speak, Bill, they know your name,
They wrote you careful, not for ordinary fame,
You're the bedrock and the river, you're the dark before the dawn,
Steady as September, and twice as hard to move along

[Verse 3]
He's wrestled with the in-between, the risk and the restrain,
Between the wide horizon calling and the roots that help him claim,
He's a man who carries questions like a lantern through the night,
Who's searched the deep and dark and still came back into the light,
The scars are his philosophy, the years are his degree,
A soul that went through hell and came back gentle as a breeze

[PreChorus]
The sky above was counting every mile that he has crossed,
And nothing that he's carried has been wasted or been lost

[Chorus]
Let the stars speak, Bill, they know your name,
They wrote you careful, not for ordinary fame,
You're the bedrock and the river, you're the dark before the dawn,
Steady as September, and twice as hard to move along

[Bridge]
A new moon rises quiet, casting light on what's been true,
The cosmos keeps on turning, and it keeps on turning toward you,
You were written in the heavens long before you drew your breath,
Every chapter already blessed

[Outro]
So rest now in the knowing that the stars have always known,
A man like you, Bill, was never meant to walk alone,
The universe keeps your name safe in the dark between the stars