[Verse 1]
He came in quiet like a closed door holding weight,
A boy who learned to read the room before he'd speak too late,
Something in him always knew the underneath of things,
The second meaning in the silence, what the surface brings,
He filed his edges sharp on every ordinary day,
Built a life from doing well the work that doesn't pay.

[PreChorus]
But the ones who see the cracks before the whole wall falls
Are the ones the world forgets to thank at all.

[Chorus]
Colin, you're the one who held the blueprint to the floor,
Steady hands, a deeper map, a key to every door,
The way you read a room like braille, every word weighed true —
Colin, there has never been a second one of you.

[Verse 2]
His feelings wore his face, no mask could hold them long,
A current running visible through everything his own,
He felt the pull of somewhere else against the pull of home,
That tension in the chest between the anchor and the roam,
Not restless out of weakness, but because his mind held wide,
Two conversations happening at once, both real, both alive.

[PreChorus]
And the ones who feel the most are not the ones who break —
They're the ones who know exactly what is real and what is fake.

[Chorus]
Colin, you have carried every contradiction whole,
The wanting and the staying both alive inside your soul,
The depth that kept you diving when the easy answer called —
Colin, that's the gravity that kept the rest of us from falling.

[Verse 3]
He loved by showing up before you knew that you were low,
By catching the detail that you thought nobody'd notice, though,
He matched the thing you needed to the one thing he could give,
Kept a running tab of how the people that he loved should live,
Not because he had to, but because the craft of it was real,
Every act of care a sentence saying *this is what I feel.*

[PreChorus]
And when desire and direction clashed inside his chest,
He didn't run from either — he just held them through the test.

[Chorus]
Colin, when the signal turned and told you to go back,
Retrace the steps, recover what the forward motion lacked,
You've done it forty times and come out knowing something new —
Colin, every reversal was a door you walked back through.

[Verse 4]
There's a version of himself he's still in process of becoming,
The one who stops apologizing for the depth he keeps on plumbing,
Who names his own authority in rooms that ask him small,
Who knows the thorough work he did alone behind the wall,
The protest he was born with, quiet in the public eye,
The refusal to be ordinary burning underneath the sky.

[PreChorus]
The stars don't bend back now to punish what was left behind —
They circle back to hand you what you didn't have the first time.

[Chorus]
Colin, let the orbit loop you back around to you,
The version that remembers every heavy thing he grew through,
Forty years of reading deep what others barely scan —
Colin, it was always you — the whole and capable man.

[Bridge]
The signal comes back through in October, full and clear,
Every word he swallowed once is offered back this year,
The ledger that he kept for everyone but kept from himself —
He picks it up, and finally, he sets it on his own shelf.

[Outro]
The depth was never too much, Colin — it was always the point,
The stars spoke once and they are speaking still.