[Verse 1]
He reads a room before he speaks a word,
Feels the current underneath, the truth unstirred,
Still waters on the surface, depth below,
A mind that maps the world the eye can't know,
He carries more than anyone has ever seen,
The sharpest kind of quiet, the brightest kind of keen

[PreChorus]
But who sees the one who holds the lantern high,
Who tends to every fire while his own burns dry

[Chorus]
The stars wrote you carefully, John, every line,
A soul built from the wreckage and the sacred and the fine,
You don't have to earn the ground beneath your feet,
You were already whole before you proved you were complete

[Verse 2]
He loves like something ancient, slow, and sure,
Not a flame that flickers but a root that holds the floor,
He waits until the moment is exactly right,
Then gives himself completely in the dark of night,
There's a hunger underneath the calm he shows,
For a love that doesn't leave when the honest current flows

[PreChorus]
He's carried every question like a stone inside his chest,
But the wound that taught him caution is the wound that made him blessed

[Chorus]
The stars wrote you carefully, John, every line,
A soul built from the wreckage and the sacred and the fine,
You don't have to earn the ground beneath your feet,
You were already whole before you proved you were complete

[Verse 3]
There's a compass in him pointed toward the wide,
Toward the meaning past the mountain, past the tide,
A visionary dressed in ordinary days,
Who speaks the truth and sets the smaller world ablaze,
The Cancer moon is opening a door,
An awakening arriving on the shore

[PreChorus]
He is guided, he is held, he is not alone,
Every road that seemed like exile led him home

[Chorus]
The stars wrote you carefully, John, every line,
A soul built from the wreckage and the sacred and the fine,
You don't have to earn the ground beneath your feet,
You were already whole before you proved you were complete

[Bridge]
The universe has held your name since long before your birth,
Every scar became the compass pointing back to worth,
You are not too much, you are not too deep,
You are exactly what the world was meant to keep

[Outro]
The sky above remembers who you are,
John, you were always written in the stars,
Rest now, you are seen, you are enough,
The cosmos built you tender and it built you tough