[Verse 1]
He came into the world in the small hours of winter's end,
A mind already mapping every road and every bend,
Two thoughts running at once like parallel lines that meet,
The kind of man who reads the room before he takes his seat,
He carries what he's learned the way a builder carries stone,
Precise and without boasting, making something all his own,

[PreChorus]
But underneath the measured words, a river running deep,
An ocean of emotion that he'd chosen not to speak,

[Chorus]
Michael, every question that you turned over late at night,
Every answer that you built by hand and held up to the light,
You were the blueprint and the builder all along,
Michael, this is where you started, this is where you're strong,

[Verse 2]
He loves the way a contract loves a signature in ink,
All the way down to the marrow, past the edges of the brink,
He won't offer half a promise or a handshake that won't hold,
His devotion is the kind that doesn't tarnish, doesn't fold,
But he feared that what he carried in the locked rooms of his chest,
Might be too much, too heavy, too relentless for the rest,

[PreChorus]
So he kept it like a ledger, every entry double-checked,
Every feeling filed in order, every fracture kept correct,

[Chorus]
Michael, every door you opened when the hallway felt too long,
Every time you chose to stay and prove the skeptic wrong,
The deep places in you aren't a burden you should hide,
Michael, that's the whole cathedral standing on the inside,

[Verse 3]
There's a restless pull in him toward the far edge of the map,
A hunger for the argument, the theory, the mishap,
He'll chase an idea backwards to the root of what it means,
And wrestle it to daylight through the complicated scenes,
The world kept asking him to pick a lane and stay put there,
But he was built for crossroads with a compass and a dare,

[PreChorus]
And every time he had to choose between the known and wide,
He left a little something of himself on either side,

[Chorus]
Oh Michael, every tension that you carried in your frame,
Every fire that you managed and refused to let go tame,
The ones who didn't follow couldn't keep up with the view,
Michael, what they called too much was always only you,

[Verse 4]
Now the full moon lifts above him like a reckoning made clear,
Pulling back the curtain on the things that disappear,
The quiet work, the long years, the unwitnessed afternoons,
The loyalty he folded into ordinary rooms,
What was hidden has a name now, what was buried has a face,
And the man who built in silence finds himself revealed in grace,

[PreChorus]
The stars he never studied spoke the whole time anyway,
And everything they said of him is rising into day,

[Chorus]
Michael, every season that you weathered and came through,
Every version of the future that you hammered until true,
The sky has kept your record since before you knew your name,
Michael, all this time the light has been spelling out your claim,

[Bridge]
He never needed the applause to know the work was real,
He pressed his hands into the task and trusted what he'd feel,
But let the record show the depth of what this man has made,
The kind of love and life that doesn't dim and doesn't fade,

[Outro]
Michael, let the whole night hear it, every syllable and star,
Every road you traveled made you exactly who you are,