[Verse 1]
Two freshmen on a campus neither one had mapped before,
A clarinet case and a handshake at the dormitory door,
Brothers sworn beneath the same Greek letters, same gold key,
Marching in the same formation, same belief in harmony,
He showed me what a loyal man looks like, year after year,
And thirty-four Septembers in, he's still the first one I call when things aren't clear,

[PreChorus]
He never kept a ledger of the debts a good friend owes,
He just showed up every time, and that's a thing the whole world knows,

[Chorus]
Todd, you were built from something steady and something wide,
A heart that holds a million people and still has room inside,
Every note you ever played rang truer than the rest,
Todd, the stars wrote down your name and underlined it — you are blessed,

[Verse 2]
He loves his God on Sunday and his family Monday through,
His wife and children carry proof of everything he knew to do,
He never threw a stone at me when I had lost my way,
Just left the porch light burning and he waited for the day,
His forgiveness isn't loud, it's just the quiet kind that stays,
The sort that fills the empty rooms without demanding praise,

[PreChorus]
He picks up a clarinet and all the noise of living clears,
Or he walks the fairway counting grace instead of years,

[Chorus]
Todd, there's a chapter in the book of friendship with your name,
Written by the ones who needed you and found you just the same,
You never had to shout it — everybody in the room could tell,
Todd, a man who loves this faithfully has done his living well,

[Verse 3]
The band stepped off the field a long time back, the years moved on,
But something in the brotherhood we built has never gone,
He carries every person that he's ever loved like songs he knows by heart,
Not written down but memorized before the thing could fall apart,
That's the kind of faithful that no distance can undo,
The kind a man is born with, and then chooses to stay true,

[PreChorus]
He doesn't need a stage to fill — he fills the space around,
Every room he walks into is richer for the sound,

[Chorus]
Todd, you are the melody that holds the whole thing in its place,
A friend who never flinched when life put something hard to face,
The clarinet still sings, the fairway calls, the family gathers near,
Todd, this is who you've always been — and we are glad you're here,

[Bridge]
When the ledger of a life is read and all the tallies fall,
What counts is who you ran toward when someone made the call,
He ran toward every one of them — no hesitation, no delay,
That's the measure of the man, and there is nothing left to say,

[Outro]
So here's to Todd, still standing in the same integrity,
Still the first friend and the truest one, still who he chose to be,