[Verse 1]
He learned the weight of doing right before he learned to rest,
A triple crown at the top of the sky burned inside his chest,
Three lanterns hung where the whole world could watch him lead and give,
He poured himself into his purpose just to teach the rest to live,
Every role he took on carried something more than just a name,
A gentle man with iron in his spine who showed up just the same,

[PreChorus]
But underneath the one the crowd was always glad to see,
There was a quiet ache for something closer, something free,

[Chorus]
Clarence, every road you walked was written in the sky,
The kind of soul that holds the door and never wonders why,
You built your life like solid ground where other people stand,
Clarence, that's the mark of more than any title, more than any plan,

[Verse 2]
He dreamed the way a poet thinks, in pictures, not in words,
His mind a backroad winding somewhere no straight line had heard,
That retrograde voice inside him turned his thoughts around to feel,
And what he couldn't always say out loud he quietly made real,
He carried family like a ledger passed down row by row,
And learned to read the ink between what stays and what must go,

[PreChorus]
The deepest roots don't always hold the sweetest kind of air,
But he faced what grew beneath the floor and chose to meet it there,

[Chorus]
Clarence, you were built from more than everything they handed you,
The tangled and the troubled ground became the thing you grew into,
You turned the hardest chapters into something worth the read,
Clarence, all that quiet grit you kept was somebody's answered need,

[Verse 3]
He worked like every task he touched was somebody's last chance,
Two heavy-handed duties side by side, no time for circumstance,
The kind of man who checks the oil before the sun comes up,
Who fixes what is broken 'fore he ever fills his cup,
He kept his word the way a fence post keeps against the rain,
And showed his love the most in all the things he won't explain,

[PreChorus]
But high ideals and restless legs can wear a good man thin,
And sometimes all the fire that drives you out must turn back in,

[Chorus]
Clarence, you were never just the labor and the long-held line,
There's something in the way you love that runs deeper than the grind,
You've been a compass for the ones who didn't know their way,
Clarence, let somebody read that same direction back to you today,

[Verse 4]
He balanced every scale he touched with both his hands wide-spread,
A grace note in a crowded room, a calm word left unsaid,
He saw the best in everyone, the golden thing they hid,
And loved the way a dreamer loves, for what a soul once did,
Now something's shifting in the language of the life he's lived so well,
A new door where the words he's carried finally get to tell,

[PreChorus]
The stars he was born beneath have always had his name,
And everything that shaped him was already part of the flame,

[Chorus]
Clarence, this is every version of you rising all at once,
The steady and the searching and the one who never runs,
Your story isn't over, it is only getting clear,
Clarence, all the sky you carry, let it finally speak right here,

[Bridge]
He worked through what most men would've set aside and left,
He loved through every hollow room that time had emptied deaf,
The effort that went unannounced, the dignity held through the years,
Built something no one hands you, something each chosen mile clears,

[Outro]
Let the life speak, Clarence, every mile and every scar,
You were always more than what you gave, more than what you are,
The sky above San Antonio heard every word you kept inside,
Now let it all come open, let it all be amplified,