[Verse 1]
He came in quiet before the morning broke the grey,
Two lamps burning in one frame, a scales at the break of day,
Both the feeler and the face turned outward to the crowd,
Wearing every room's emotion like a second shroud,
He weighs the world so evenly he forgets to weigh himself,
The steadiest hand in any storm, and the last one to ask for help,

[PreChorus]
But the stars were watching, George, they wrote it all in turn,
Every careful choice you made, a lantern set to burn,

[Chorus]
George, you were fashioned from a finer thread,
The diplomat with iron words no one knows he's said,
Born to read the underneath, to find the truer seam,
George, your whole life is the answer, not the in-between dream,

[Verse 2]
He doesn't say the hard thing fast, he turns it in the mind,
Two words that land like a closing door, and leave the truth behind,
He keeps his devotion folded small, pressed into the day,
A remembered preference, a door held, the quiet place he'll stay,
Love for him is the corrected draft, the third attempt made right,
Not the grand pronouncement but the fixed thing left in plain sight,

[PreChorus]
The sky recorded, George, the depth that no one named,
The sharpest mind in any room who walked away unclaimed,

[Chorus]
Every good and worthy house begins with what he found,
He digs where other people doubt, he builds on different ground,
Not the loudest at the table but the one the table needs,
George, the truest kind of gold is what nobody sees,

[Verse 3]
There's a road he walked without a map and without a creed,
The question underneath the question no one thought to heed,
Where does a man belong who sees too deep to stay put long,
Who carries other people's hidden grief like it were his own song,
He's learning now the ledger keeps, that what he gave remains,
And the sky he was born beneath is calling out his name,

[PreChorus]
A new dark moon is turning, George, the cycle starts again,
Everything you were made to hold is ready to begin,

[Bridge]
Let the scales tip toward himself this once, let the balance finally land,
Let the unclaimed depth come forward, let the builder show his hand,
The world he's always dreamed of building, brick by careful brick,
Starts the moment that he trusts the thing inside him, quick and thick,

[Outro]
George, the morning that is coming broke before you saw,
Every star that named you, knew you, long before you knew them all,