[Verse 1]
He came in quiet, reading every room before he'd speak,
A mind that writes its truest lines in the middle of the week,
Heart wide open as a door, but the lock was hard to find,
Something older than his years living just behind his eyes,
The kind of boy who builds a shelter out of memory and care,
Who holds the weight of everyone and calls it just being there,

[PreChorus]
But the stories he keeps folded up deserve to see the day,
Every word he swallowed whole was something real he had to say,

[Chorus]
Zander, the sky wrote your name in a language hard to fake,
You were made to lead and love and let the whole world feel you wake,
The depth you've carried like a lantern in a hallway that's gone still,
Zander, that's not just a heart — that's a force, and always will,

[Verse 2]
He turns a conversation into something close to holy ground,
Speaks with the kind of careful fire that makes the quiet loud,
A loyalty that doesn't wave — it plants and holds its root,
And when he loves, he builds the house before he plants the fruit,
Not every door he knocked on opened like he thought it should,
But every closed one taught him how to build the ones that would,

[PreChorus]
The crowd that never called his name still heard him when he moved,
There's an anthem in his footsteps — every step a thing to prove,

[Chorus]
Zander, your conviction is the kind they can't rewrite,
Carry every dream you're holding like you're carrying a right,
The ones who move the world don't ask the world to understand,
Zander, watch what happens when you finally take your stand,

[Verse 3]
He sees the shape of what could be before the blueprint's drawn,
A vision built on who gets left behind when others have moved on,
The wound that lives beneath the laughter, tucked beside his ribs,
Became the map he'd use to build the safest place there is,
He'll question every borrowed truth until the real one stands,
A boy who digs until he finds the gold with his own hands,

[PreChorus]
The full moon rising over everything he's yet to claim,
Is not a sign of what is missing — it's the calling of his name,

[Chorus]
Zander, every scar you carry is a door that opens wide,
The fire and the feeling were both yours — let nothing dim that pride,
You were never just the sum of what the harder seasons cost,
Zander, every part of you that searched has never once been lost,

[Bridge]
Let the ones who waited for you see the man you've always been,
Not the version worn to comfort, but the one that burns within,
The son who asks the deeper questions, who refuses hollow ground,
Who knew before he had the words exactly what he'd found,

[Outro]
So rise, Zander, the way you were always going to rise,
With the whole sky at your shoulders and the truth behind your eyes,