[Verse 1]
He came in early, before the house woke up,
Already counting what was enough,
A boy who weighed his worth in what he'd built,
Carrying the ledger instead of the guilt,
Old before his time, steady as a door,
Showing up composed when inside there was more,

[PreChorus]
But the dreams he filed away in the second drawer,
Were never meant to sleep on that cold floor,

[Chorus]
Garrett, you were forged in the long before,
Every sober morning opened one more door,
The blueprint in your hands was always yours to read,
Garrett, every careful step was planting seed,

[Verse 2]
His words arrive like water finding cracks,
Poetic, roundabout, then circling back,
The thought he rewrote seventeen times in his head,
Said truer than the straight line would have said,
He reads a room the way a craftsman reads the grain,
And turns the things that cost him into things that sustain,

[PreChorus]
That retrograde inside him wasn't stalling out,
It was sharpening the sentence without a doubt,

[Chorus]
Garrett, the long way round was still the road,
Every detour taught you more than you were told,
The voice that second-guessed itself kept growing clear,
Garrett, what you earned by going deep is what remains here,

[Verse 3]
He loves the way a man who's memorized the risk still bets,
Not reckless but devoted, no room for regrets,
He builds the kind of warmth that asks for nothing fast,
A slow-burn kind of loyalty designed to last,
He sees the best in people even when it's buried low,
Tends to what is hidden and watches it grow,

[PreChorus]
Not every open hand has learned to hold its own,
But his is learning both at once, and it shows,

[Chorus]
Garrett, the ones who felt your depth already know,
You give like someone certain that the giving comes back whole,
The trust you built was mortared out of honest ground,
Garrett, that is why the ones who matter stuck around,

[Verse 4]
Now something overhead is pulling the old tide back,
Releasing what he loaded on that childhood track,
The version of himself that needed proof to stand,
Can finally set the ledger down and take his hand,
What he thought he owed the world for simply being here,
He never owed at all — and now that debt is clear,

[PreChorus]
The full light breaking isn't asking him to hide,
It's burning off the last of what was never really his to mind,

[Chorus]
Garrett, the releasing is the braver thing to do,
Every door you've locked from the outside was built by you,
Stand in what you've made and let the old accounting go,
Garrett, you were always worth the life you're building now, you know,

[Bridge]
He questioned every structure that was handed down as fixed,
Looked the gatekeepers straight in the eye and didn't flinch,
Not a man who burned the house down just to feel the heat,
But one who drew a better set of plans in the concrete,

[Outro]
The stars that watched you labor in the long before,
They're watching Garrett open one last bolted door,
You built your way to here on what you chose to trust,
Now all that's left is living — and for you, that's enough,