[Verse 1]
He came into the world beside another heartbeat, side by side,
A mirror breathing next to him before he knew himself inside,
The kind of boy who catalogued his feelings, filed them neat and deep,
Then pressed his face against the window glass and swore he'd never weep,
He carried other people's rooftops like a foreman carries weight,
Deliberate, unhurried, showing up before they named a date,

[PreChorus]
But the steadiest hands are the hardest to read,
And the loudest of hearts can still quietly bleed,

[Chorus]
Colin, the sky above the city where you first drew breath,
Was writing down your name in fire, marking every step,
You were built from slow and certain things, from holding on and through,
The whole of who you are was always more than what you knew,

[Verse 2]
His mind would spark like flint before the thought had found its form,
He'd have the answer halfway out the door ahead of any storm,
And in a room of voices he could hear the underneath,
The thing nobody said aloud, the truth behind the teeth,
He turned his keenest thinking toward the ones who needed most,
A rallying point in quiet clothes, the kind nobody wrote about on posts,

[PreChorus]
But the ones who move the room along forget to take their seat,
And the man who maps the road for all can miss his own heartbeat,

[Chorus]
Colin, there are people who still carry what your words once gave,
A sentence dropped in passing that became a lantern in a cave,
Every group you ever walked beside grew larger than before,
The whole of who you are keeps opening door after door,

[Verse 3]
He loved the way a builder loves a wall he knows will stand,
Not with flags and declarations but with an offered hand,
His devotion lived in corners where the everyday is kept,
In the kettle boiled at midnight and the vigil that he kept,
He held his dearest people like a deed tucked safe from harm,
Not signed and framed for showing, just folded on his arm,

[PreChorus]
But love that stays invisible can start to cost its price,
And the one who tends the hearth all night deserves to be held twice,

[Chorus]
Colin, all the tenderness you tucked away from sight,
Has always been the strongest thing, the marrow, not the light,
The ones you kept from falling know exactly what you've done,
The whole of who you are is more than all that you've become,

[Verse 4]
There is something shifting now like iron cooling into form,
A recognition settling after decades of the storm,
The twin who shared his first sky knows the measure of his worth,
Before the world had named him, she had known him since his birth,
He built for others, steady, true, through every test and year,
Now the ledger finally tilting toward a name that he can hear,

[PreChorus]
And the season ahead isn't asking him to earn,
Just to let what's always been his own finally return,

[Chorus]
Colin, this is not a coronation, it is simply true,
Everything you gave away was always growing back in you,
Step into the room you built, no apology, no cost,
The whole of who you are was never hidden, never lost,

[Bridge]
There was a boy beside his twin beneath one patch of sky,
Who learned that being needed was the only alibi,
But the man who kept his promises through every silent year
Has earned the right to stand still now and let himself be seen here,

[Outro]
Colin, let the record speak, the life you lived is real,
Every steady thing you were is stamped into the steel,
The stars that marked your morning have been watching all along,
And Colin, you have always been the whole of your own song,