[Verse 1]
He came into the world with a mind already moving,
Two thoughts ahead, a third one still improving,
The kind of kid who read between the lines by age ten,
Took the long way home just to think it through again,
He carries a vision nobody asked him to hold,
And the words came out wired, electric, and bold,

[PreChorus]
But the face he showed the world didn't match what burned inside,
A quiet civil war he learned to wage with steady pride,

[Chorus]
Michael, you were built for more than fitting in the frame,
The current running through you isn't anyone else's claim,
You mapped the future in a notebook no one else could read,
Michael, that restless, wired mind is exactly what we need,

[Verse 2]
He sat in rooms where nobody touched the deep end,
And felt the whole weight of a conversation's dead bend,
So he waited, watched the exits, clocked the one real door,
Then moved with such precision no one saw him before,
He's the simmering kind, the studied kind, the still kind,
Who only strikes the match when he's made up his mind,

[PreChorus]
And in love he goes headlong, no rehearsal, no draft,
Like a door kicked open wide on the first try, not the last,

[Chorus]
Michael, every heart you opened cost you something real,
But you kept believing in the next one, kept the will to feel,
The boldness in your loving isn't recklessness or pride,
Michael, it's the truest thing you never had to hide,

[Verse 3]
There was a season when the work came back unmarked,
When what he'd made with both hands landed wrong in the dark,
He'd poured himself into the thing and heard it fall flat,
And stood there in the silence, wondering what to do with that,
But the maker doesn't stop because the room didn't clap,
He just picks up where he left off and he doesn't look back,

[PreChorus]
Because what he's building isn't meant for the approval of the crowd,
It's the legacy a quiet man makes out loud,

[Chorus]
Michael, the work you do when no one's watching still takes root,
Every system that you fixed, every truth you followed through,
The mark you're after isn't fame, it's something tried and earned,
Michael, that's the kind of name that can't be bought or burned,

[Verse 4]
Now something shifts inside the mechanism of the year,
A door he'd half-forgotten swings back, open, clear,
The ache around his agency begins to lose its grip,
The apology he'd practiced never makes the trip,
He doesn't have to prove the point by doing it alone,
Just showing up as fully himself is enough to be known,

[PreChorus]
The healing isn't coming from outside, it's already near,
It's the voice he kept second-guessing finally turning clear,

[Chorus]
Michael, you don't need another reason or another sign,
Everything you've carried this far has been making you shine,
The man who sees through surfaces and still chooses to stay,
Michael, that's the one the whole next chapter's been waiting to say,

[Bridge]
He's the inventor and the seeker and the one who won't conform,
Who held the group together while rewriting every norm,
He learned that being present was the bravest thing to give,
And the life he'd been imagining is the life he gets to live,

[Outro]
Michael, keep the notebook open, keep the current running high,
The wired, restless, brilliant you was never meant to hide,
Take the stage you've been circling, walk straight to the light,
Michael — you were built for this, and the timing is tonight,