[Verse 1]
He learned to hold the line before he learned to ask for help,
Took the weight of every broken thing and shelved it on himself,
The kind of man whose mind runs wide, who names what others miss,
Who mapped the whole horizon out but couldn't map through this,
He carried someone else's measure of what he was worth,
And never once stopped long enough to count what he'd given first.

[PreChorus]
But the road he's walked is carved in him, a ridge he doesn't hide,
There's a fire that hasn't finished yet, it's burning wide.

[Chorus]
Jeremy, you are not the sum of what they couldn't see,
The boy who went on searching found exactly who he'd be,
You stood inside the thunder and you didn't turn away,
Jeremy, the proof of who you are was never theirs to say.

[Verse 2]
He gives everything completely when he finally lets someone in,
All or nothing at the altar, no half-measures, no pretend,
He speaks the truth the way a bowstring speaks before the arrow flies,
Fast and sure and slightly reckless, aimed at something like the sky,
But somewhere in the keeping score of all the ways he fell short,
He forgot to write his name down in his own court of record.

[PreChorus]
He's stood across from his own mirror like a stranger at the door,
But the face looking back has always known what he was for.

[Chorus]
Jeremy, the voice that shook the room was yours the whole damn time,
Every word you ever swallowed back was meant to burn and shine,
You've been the compass and the seeker and the hand that wouldn't break,
Jeremy, there's more ahead of you than anything you'll leave in your wake.

[Verse 3]
He dreamed in wider frames than most, saw meaning in the gap,
Between the thing he thought he was and what the past had mapped,
He sorted through the rubble with a fastidiousness that ached,
Filing every memory with hands that sometimes shook and shaked,
But the wound that told him he was less was only ever wrong,
He was building something truer, he was building something long.

[PreChorus]
The sky he ran beneath so hard is finally running clear,
And the man he's always been is the man who's standing here.

[Chorus]
Jeremy, walk forward through the door you cracked with all that trying,
The story isn't over and it never was worth denying,
You are the open road, the honest word, the one who stayed through fire,
Jeremy, let what you love about yourself be what you take higher.

[Bridge]
He thought the asking made him smaller, thought the wanting made him less,
But the hunger for the truth of himself is his bravest willingness,
Every question left unanswered carved the shape of who he'd grow to be,
He was never lost, he was learning how to finally run free.

[Outro]
Jeremy, the long way home was yours to walk,
And every mile of it taught you something that nothing else could talk,
You are the archer and the arrow and the open air between,
The fullest version of yourself is everything you've always been.