[Verse 1]
He built his world from the inside out, from the root,
Every memory pressed like a flower, every truth
Soaked into the floorboards of the place he calls his own,
He carries his people like a photograph, like home
Feels the weight of what was handed down before he could stand,
And still he tends that garden with his bare hands

[PreChorus]
The dreamer and the discipline don't always agree,
But both of them are Farris, and both of them are free

[Chorus]
Farris, you were built for more than holding the line,
Every quiet act of courage was a sign,
Farris, the long road you walked to find your ground,
That's not a man who's lost — that's a man who's found

[Verse 2]
His mind moves in images, in currents, in song,
The thought that won't translate until it's already gone,
Retrograde of the pen, the poem stuck at the seam,
He speaks in metaphor because precision can't hold the dream,
But let him in a room where the conversation runs deep,
And every word he places is a promise he'll keep

[PreChorus]
He reads the undercurrent before anyone speaks a word,
The truest things he's ever said went beautifully unheard

[Chorus]
Farris, there's a voice in you that cuts like a blade,
Sharpened by every question you were afraid to trade,
Farris, the precision others preach is not your art,
Your currency has always been the whole damn heart

[Verse 3]
He loves like a house left open in December, every door,
Like he renovated every room for someone else before
He knew their favorite color — he sees the best that's hidden,
And still he guards his own interior, half-forbidden,
The boundary he won't draw is the map to where he's tender,
He offers everything he has without the full surrender

[PreChorus]
Discipline and devotion fought their battle in the dark,
The one who won was patient, and the one who lost left marks

[Chorus]
Farris, every wall you built was practice, not a cage,
Every year of earned restraint was wisdom, not old age,
Farris, the trust you give so carefully, so true,
Is the rarest kind of currency — it's unmistakably you

[Verse 4]
Now the hour's shifting, the ledger's being cleared,
The language he kept private is the thing the world has feared,
What he knows in feeling, he's learning now to say
In the plain unguarded sentence, in the words of everyday,
He's not arriving — he's been here since the very start,
Just finally letting the outside match what's burning in his heart

[PreChorus]
The soul that walked in circles found the straight and narrow road,
Farris laid the foundation down — now watch him bear no load

[Chorus]
Farris, take the long view you were born to understand,
Every discipline you mastered was a map drawn by your hand,
Farris, the vision and the structure finally agree,
Step into the open — that's where you were meant to be

[Bridge]
He never needed the applause to know the work was real,
He signed his name on everything he built but couldn't feel,
Now the draft he kept rewriting gets to finally leave the drawer,
The man who proved his worth through doing gets to just be more

[Outro]
Farris, the stars you carry aren't above — they're in your chest,
You've always been the answer and the question and the rest